I’m not sure if it’s my elite hacker skillz, or just my wish for better user experiences that drives me to find ways to wash out the lines between your own computer and desktops running in the cloud. Either way, I found this method online that I want to share with you. I will share what my challenge was, how I solved it and what it feels like for the users. The challenge: The thing that always has bugged me with Remote Desktop-solutions are the fact that the user has TWO DESKTOPS! One local and one remote. The user experience is almost always better locally, but still they are forced to log on ..read more

Let me tell you a little story about a useful tool called Microsoft Secure Score and how one of it’s recommendations led to a crisis by killing off authentication for a Azure File Share… The Story A customer had been using Azure File Share for quite some time as a replacement for a little local NAS. All was good and well. All of the files lived happily in the cloud and no hardware to worry about. All is good! The few people that need access to this share just run a little script shich in turn stores some authentication details in Windows. This is done via the command “cmdkey”. Nothing special ..read more

My plan is to make this greenhouse totaly independent with it’s own power. “With great power, comes great responsibility” someone said… And great power comes from the sun, in this case. The introduction to this project can be found here: Greenhouse IoT Project – an app in Teams The setup In order to have some power for this setup I wanted to try out solar power. Sourced some new parts, and some used. Got the solar regulator for cheap second hand, and the battery (to store energy from the sun) did I have lying around from some years ago. Just needed to buy a solar panel and some connections for ..read more

Looking for a use-case for IoT, or maybe Apps in Teams? Or both? Me too! About three years ago I made a little greenhouse in my garden. And for a long time I have wanted to have controll over temperatures inside, so I’ve finally made myself this little Greenhouse IoT project to tacle: Inside of this greenhouse there are a lot of things growing, including Tomatoes, cucumbers and some herbs: The purpose of a greenhouse is to have a steady as possible climate for these vegetables. But how can I know how hot it is, or if it’s getting too cold inside this greenhouse? I can manually look at ..read more

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