Office 365 – Can’t delete an external account from the recycle bin?
Came across this today on a customers site. Basically there was a need to delete an external users account from Office 365 AD. According to this MS article the process… Read more »
Intune – Oops… an error occurred! (Windows desktop management)
Just a quick one today, with the surge of BYOD and IT organisations having to look at ways of securing company data a lot are turning to Microsoft Intune. I… Read more »
SharePoint – Migrating historical My Sites to 2013
This one had me baffled for a few days. We had an SharePoint 2010 environment where a lot of the users My Sites had been upgraded from 2007. When upgrading… Read more »
Azure – Migrating WordPress from MySQL to Azure Web Apps and Azure SQL
The migration to the cloud continues, today I look at moving WordPress from On Premise hosted on Windows Server 2008R2 with IIS and MySQL to Azure Web Apps and Azure… Read more »
Azure – Clearing out all the data, VMs, VHDs and Clouds from an Azure tenant
There are times when you need to reset a Azure tenant and remove all the data from it. If you only have a small installation this can be done simply… Read more »
Azure – Creating a SQL AlwaysOn Failover Cluster on Azure using Internal Load Balancer (ILB)
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to make the process of building a SQL AlwaysOn failover cluster in Azure. Due to the limitations of having to use DHCP this… Read more »
Azure – Azure Backup and email notifications
Azure backup is a fantastic tool for the enterprise but if you have a small set of servers that you are backing up daily there is no easy way to… Read more »
ADFS and SharePoint – Token Signing Certificate – When auto roll over goes wrong
The Token Signing certificate is designed to auto renew each year, this is great for ADFS but unfortunately SharePoint can have a bit of a hissy fit because the certificate its been using as trusted… Read more »
SharePoint – Configure SQL Alias
Ok, this is a pretty basic one but you’ll be amazed how many people don’t know how to do them. SQL aliasing as been around for years and in the… Read more »
SharePoint – Loopback check done the proper way!
A famous “hack” on within SharePoint is to remove the loopback check on a SharePoint server to allow it to serve its pages locally. This is ok in a development… Read more »
DirSync – Filtering down to a single tree-domain
DirSync in general is a great tool but sometimes there may be a requirement to separate the replication to different Azure/Office365 tenants. This might be a the case when you… Read more »