But how? On my mobile device? No! In a container, using Docker, Linux, Tmux and AzCopy. Come on, I’ll show you how I do it! The problem Downloading VHDs from Azure can take a lot of time. Especially if they are several hundred gigabytes (or Terabytes!) in size. VHD stands for Virtual Hard Drive, and is essentially a hard disk for virtual machines in the cloud. Why you need to download them may vary, but legal reasons may be one. And where do you store the files temporarily? Do you have 2-3TB of space available on your laptop? I think not… Microsoft has a solution called Databox which will let ..read more

Thanks to the magic of PowerShell and JSON, we can add teams and channels in bulk! Had to do a project lately with a lot of teams and channels that needed to be created in a way that minimizes errors and potential screw-ups. Since I’m all for automating these kinds of tasks, I created this project that I want to share with you! You do need some prerequisites: Some knowledge of both PowerShell and JSON The Teams-module installed on your computer Rights to a tenant to create teams Some teams and channels that needs to be created! Create the JSON-file First, you need a source for what structure ..read more

Since the dawn of Teams we have had individual Teams, and we have had channels. Some years ago, private channels arrived letting us create channels in Teams that could be seen only for those team members that had been given specific access to it. The drawback here was it could only be visible to existing member members and therefore somewhat limiting it’s use. That meant if you had to share the private channel with a member outside of that team, that person would need to have access to everything else in that team. Now there’s a new guy in town, called Shared Channels. This let’s you create ch ..read more

Windows LAPS just recently released to Public Preview. No no, not the old one (legacy Microsoft LAPS: https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=46899). The NEW LAPS. LAPS is an acronym for Local Administrator Password Solution. On Windows-machines there is by default this almighty admin-account that gives you local administrative access to that computer. This can be used in case of emergency where other means of authentication isn’t available, e.g. lost contact with domain controller. But it can also be used for malicious purposes. There are several techniques where passwords can be u ..read more

You have probably been in this situation where you need to migrate a sub-set of users from one tenant to another. This typically happens when a company for a reason splits out and only some users will be migrated. How are you going to get a list of the Teams they are a member of so you can begin migrate the correct data? Fear not! I’ve recently been in this situation where the users already had a specific domain as their UPN and came up with a script that list only Teams they are a member of. Let me just paste it in here in all it’s glory: PowerShell #Set the domain you are searching for $dom ..read more

The way I noticed this was when I got engaged in setting up FSLogix on-prem in a Windows Server 2019 VDI-environment. Naturally we downloaded the latest and greatest FSLogix version and got it installed. GPOs were set and with the latest ADMX-files installed all seemed okay. We set up both profile disk and Office containers for the users. The trouble started the next day. The users had to log on to Office apps every time they logged on for the day. They had to repeat the login process the next time they logged off and on again. Everything else in the profile was saved as it should be, so I kne ..read more

Microsoft. Selskapet som ga oss Office-pakken. Industristandarden for produktivitet som er installert på enhver PC rundt om. Like selvsagt som smør på brødskiva. De ga oss senere Office 365 som i starten dessverre ble misforstått. Hvorfor skulle man leie Office når man kunne kjøpe det? Vi skjønte mer av taktikken bak det etterhvert. Så finner de på å lansere samleproduktet Microsoft 365 som inneholder Office 365, Windows 10 og en drøss sikkerhetsfunksjoner, og med det setter hele salgsapparatet vårt ut av spill som aner ikke hva vi skal med det. «Windows 10 følger med sier du?! De har jo det i ..read more

Ja du leste riktig. Passord har egen offisiell dag på internasjonalt plan. «The World Password day» er en appel for å fremme bedre passordskikk og holdes hvert år 7. mai. Selv om datoen for i år er passert er det aldri for sent med god passordhygiene. Det er tross alt slik de aller fleste blir «hacket» ved at passord blir gjenbrukt, er for dårlige eller at de rett og slett er på avveie. Den største trenden man ser er at folk absolutt vet hva som er beste praksis men de gjør det stikk motsatte. En slags kognitiv dissonans. Så hvorfor er det slik? Det viser seg at vi mennesker tror vi er svært l ..read more

I’m getting straight to the point here: By fighting I mean Microsoft are incorporating Acrobat Reader INTO their Edge webbrowser. Yep, you read that right. They are building Acrobat’s PDF-engine into Edge. Microsoft and Adobe have partnered up for replacing the existing PDF-engine in Edge. By default, PDFs in Windows opens in Edge. This hasn’t always been the best solutions as many workflows is dependent on Adobe Reader in one way or another. Either the technology or the humans. This is about to change. Gone is the management of an extra software installation on every PC, and in comes full com ..read more

This december Microsoft released a new branding experience for the Azure AD login pages. It now features a lot more tools and options for customization with headers, footers and editable CSS! So now you can do more with how the log-in feels and looks like. Not only will it look good, it will also be a more welcoming feel for when your users are logging in. It will generate a more consistent experience. A quick note before we get started: Azure AD branding now requires Azure AD P1 or P2, or Office 365 (for Office apps). Don’t worry, existing branding in your tenant will not be removed. https ..read more