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The Curious Case of The Missing Team
Recently, during a very pleasant endeavour at one of my customers, I got involved in a curious case I would love to share with "the world". All administrators were able to see (nearly) all teams in the admin center. With one exception. There was a certain team (which...
Configure External E-mail Warning
Security is the number one priority for most mature IT Service Providers. Microsoft is no exception. An often overlooked configuration parameter within Exchange Online is the External E-mail Warning. By enabling this option, all of your tenant users will be notified...
Azure AD Connect Group WriteBack
Groups writeback enables customers to leverage cloud groups for their hybrid needs. If you use the Microsoft 365 Groups feature, then you can have these groups represented in your on-premises Active Directory. This option is only available if you have...
3rd party app management with SCAPPMAN (pt. 1)
Introduction SCAPPMAN is a "Software as a Service" platform that allows organizations of any size to simplify and manage application and patch management for Microsoft Intune. It is a Belgian-based start-up that made the choice of opting for a full cloud management...
Retrieving all Hybrid AAD joined Devices
When starting a pilot for Hybrid Azure AD join, it can be useful to keep track of the number of devices that currently are already Hybrid Azure AD joined. The most straight-forward way to do so is within the GUI of the Azure AD portal: However, when used for reporting...
Run AAD Connect Sync & Monitor Status
Depending on the size of an AD environment (and more specifically, the number and location of objects that are in scope to be synced), a delta sync can take anywhere between a couple of seconds and significantly longer. Checking if a sync currently is running is...
PowerShell Quicktip: list all Azure MFA-enabled users
Recently, I got a question from a customer to list all users that already enrolled in Azure MFA (through, for example, the url https://aka.ms/mfasetup. The following PowerShell code lists all non-disabled users that already enrolled in Azure MFA: Connect-MsolService...
Spring 2020 – Security Webinars
Also during (a somewhat different) spring, Microsoft is keeping its promise by delivering webinars to introduce new and improved technology.
The certificate “name” on “servername” has expired
When logging in to a customers Exchange Server 2013 environment recently, a pop up caught my eye, indicating the following errror: An expired certificate as such obviously isn't such a weird event. However, when zooming into the error, the server that the error...
Self-Service Password reset for Windows
Azure AD has the capability to enable end-users to perform a self-managed reset of the password, in case one does not remember it anymore. Configuration is fairly easy, and can be done both through Intune and by adding a registry key. Detailed steps on how to do so...
Jente Paredis
Blog Author
Born and raised in the most beautiful city of Belgium; Leuven. As a very young kid I was already passionate about that “big electronic device” in the living room.
That hobby evolved into a professional career of more than 15 years. During my day job, I am a M365 Cloud Architect for The Flow Consulting in Mechelen.
Learning new things and peers is what gives me lots of energy. As such, I plan to use this blog of a way of IT-related knowledge sharing. Welcome!