Azure Stack With the shifting cloud landscape and recent application developments addressed in ‘Part 1‘ of this blog, I can finally talk about Azure Stack’s impact and advantages in the big cloud game. It is Microsoft’s own ‘software-defined data center’ (SDDC) stack with Azure services, brought to your private or hosted cloud. Yes, you heard right; …
Category Archive: Azure
Jun 22
Azure Federation – Manually modify support for multiple domains
The ‘ SupportMultipleDomains’ switch creates a third claim rule when you add or update a federated domain for the first time so the Office 365 relying party trust is configured to identify multiple domains. You’ll have to specify the ‘SupportMultipleDomains’ switch the first time you add a federated domain, otherwise the cmdlet errors out with the following …
Jun 16
Multi-tenant Azure AD federation without the use of synchronization tools
Update: Added a multi-tenant PowerShell provisioning script to the TechNet gallery with examples mentioned in this blog. Download here. Introduction Microsoft is advocating their own synchronization tools (DirSync/AADSync/AADconnect/FIM) to federate with Azure AD. There are a lot of advantages using a synchronization tool, this way companies don’t need to develop their own solutions, it’s easy deployable, …
May 26
Azure Demo : Batch Provision VM’s in thirteen data centers worldwide and manage them within 10 minutes!
Introduction When I got my Azure subscription, the first thing I was interested in was creating a VM somewhere else then in our data centers in Amsterdam and better yet in every available Azure data center in the world! This is not easy task to do via the portal or even with Azure PowerShell. Both …