Dan Djurasovic Blog - Dan's Blog is a leading source of step by step guides for Office 365, Azure, Exchange Server and AD

Oct 25

Configure Windows virtual machine in Azure using Azure AD authentication and RDP.

OVERVIEW This article shows you how to create and configure a Windows VM and log in with Azure AD-based authentication using RDP. Default Microsoft configuration needs some additional steps, which are not listed on the Microsoft site. We can increase the security of Windows virtual machines in Azure by integrating... read more →

Jun 24

How to deploy CIS hardening scripts on Windows VM hosted in the Azure

CIS Benchmarks are the best-practice security configuration guides both developed by the Center for Internet Security.They and accepted by the government, business and industry.The CIS Benchmarks are distributed free of charge in PDF format.https://learn.cisecurity.org/benchmarksYou can follow the configuration from the PDF file and configure all settings manually. The better option... read more →

Jun 05

Create Azure Policy to limit VNet Address Space creation to certain address spaces only

Overview of the process When you have a large Azure installation, you want to limit which address ranges your end users can create. We can accomplish this with Azure Policy. However, there are no build-in policies, so we will need to create custom policies. In our example, we want... read more →

Oct 04

How to deploy hybrid Azure AD-joined devices by using Intune and Windows Autopilot

When deploying new Windows devices, Windows Autopilot leverages the OEM-optimized version of Windows 10 that is preinstalled on the device, saving organizations the effort of having to maintain custom images and drivers for every model of device being used. Instead of re-imaging the device, your existing Windows 10 installation can... read more →

Jun 22

How to setup Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Today we are going to talk about Azure AD Domain Services. You already have local on-premises AD, you extended your domain to Azure AD using AD Connect. All users accounts and groups are replicated to Azure AD and Office 365. You are using Exchange Online, Teams, etc.. You want to... read more →

May 10

How to convert Office 365 mailbox to shared mailbox if a mailbox is synced using AD Connect.

In this article, we will explain how to properly convert Exchange Online Mailbox to Shared Mailbox.There is little of a workaround if you are using AD Connect to sync local identities to Azure AD and Office 365. Microsoft recommendation is that you move the user mailbox back to on-premises, convert the... read more →

Dec 06

Set up disaster recovery for Physical On-premises VMs to Azure using Backup and Site Recovery (OMS) services PART2

In first article http://blog.djurasovic.com/set-up-disaster-recovery-for-physical-on-premises-vms-to-azure-using-backup-and-site-recovery-oms-services-part1/ we outlined steps how to enable replication of local server to Azure. In this second article, we will show you how to activate replicated VM in Azure. We recommend creating Monitoring VM in the replicated subnet in Azure. After you migrated VM, you will not be able to access migrated... read more →

Dec 06

Set up disaster recovery for Physical on-premises VMs to Azure using Backup and Site Recovery (OMS) services PART1

The Azure Site Recovery service contributes to your disaster recovery strategy by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines (VMs). This tutorial shows you how to set up disaster recovery to an Azure for Azure VMs. In this tutorial, you learn how to... read more →

Dec 01

Step By Steps instruction how to disable creation of Office 365 Groups.

Microsoft added the ability within Azure AD PowerShell to control who can create Office 365 Groups. We are going to accomplish this with the following two steps: Disable the default ability for everyone to create a new Office 365 Group Create Azure AD group with a list of people who are... read more →

Nov 02

Migrate physical server to Azure VM using Disk2VHD tool and Add-AzureRmVhd command

This article will show you step by step instructions on how to migrate the single physical server to Azure VM. This is a possible scenario where you can use this step by step instructions. Small Business which has a single Small Business Server Single Web server sitting in a rack... read more →