Recently I deployed some VMs on Azure. There was a small change to the naming convention afterwards so I wanted to rename the created VMs. This is how you can do this After a couple of minutes (depending on the size of the VM) the newly created server with theRead More →
After an extended period of testing in the Release Preview ring, Microsoft has finally started rolling out the May 2019 Update to Windows 10 users, albeit in a “measured and throttled” way. You might be able to get it now by going through Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update or, failing that, via the Media Creation tool.Read More →
This is how you can encrypt your Azure virtual machine disks : az vm encryption enable –resource-group “ResourceGroupOfVM” –name “VMName” –disk-encryption-keyvault “/KeyVaultResourceIDHere” –volume-type All You can find your keyvault Resource ID here : The reason that I used the Resource id instead of the keyvault name is that nowRead More →
In this blogpost I’m going to explain how you can still be able to send SMTP from your IaaS server running on Azure. As you might already know since Nov 15th of 2017 it’s no longer always possible to send SMTP on port 25 (I dig into that later). InRead More →
There’s a common misconception that Microsoft fully backs up Office 365 Mailbox. Microsoft is responsible for providing the O365 service, but do you know it’s your (!) responsibility to protect your (customer’s!) O365 data? Microsoft has limited possibilities to help you with unexpected data loss or damage. Therefore it’s veryRead More →