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The below is a repro of a customer issue where they were unable to RDP to an Azure RM VM from the Internet. Previously this was not something they had setup as connecting to VMs was provided by a site to site VPN. There was no requirement to provide RDP access from the Internet, until they wanted to allow connectivity from one specific business partner to some VMs. The partner is not part of th… Read the rest “Azure RM VM Connect Button Greyed Out”
As mentioned in this blog's previous posts on deploying AD FS, one option is to deploy all or part of the AD FS solution in Azure. This is very valuable if there is insufficient capacity on-premises or if you only have a single datacentre and wish to increase resiliency.
Deploying the AD FS solution or connecting it to Azure is pretty straight forward. However, if you not correctly plan the Azure… Read the rest “Load Balancing AD FS Services In Azure RM”
Like many other customers, the Tailspintoys Canada organization are leveraging Azure as part of their IT solution, and have done so for years. Because of this they have Azure resources in the old Azure model, and wish to transition to the new deployment methodology. In short they need to move from Azure Service Manager to the new Azure Resource Manager.
Azure Service Manager (SM) is also called C… Read the rest “Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager”
For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.
Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:
This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.
For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”
This is a follow-up to the initial post on the topic which was based on the original Azure Service Manager (Azure SM) model. Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM) changes the deployment methodology. Take a look at Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources for more details. We will take a brief look at the relationship of the networking… Read the rest “How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”
TailspinToys Canada have been busy upgrading their on-premises, Azure and Office 365 infrastructure. Previously Azure resources were moved from classic (Azure Service Manager) to the new Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM). The VMs, storage accounts and VHDs were migrated. One of the migration blockers was that multiple availability sets were previously present in one of the cloud services. Th… Read the rest “Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD”
One of the great uses of Azure is to host VMs which can address a number of business requirements. While we can install Exchange 2013 on an Azure VM, this is generally not the most cost effect way to have mailboxes running in a cloud. Office 365 is the recommended option to leverage cloud mailboxes since it has pricing and feature advantages. Some customers may still wish to do deploy Azure Exch… Read the rest “Slow Exchange Server Boot In Azure VM”
When attempting to run the Windows Azure Active Directory Module on a Windows 7 or 2008 R2 machine, things did not go swimmingly. In fact they did not work at all. The error message of “This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded” was reported.
The below was tested on a Windows 7 and a separate Windows Server 2… Read the rest “Azure AD Module – This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded”
In February 2016 a new build of the Azure AD Connect tool was released. This is build 1.1.105.0. Multiple features and enhancements were added, and some significant changes were made to Azure AD Connect.
The release history of Azure AD Sync and Azure AD Connect is available on azure.microsoft.com. DirSync is grounded in the years 2013/2014, we will leave that aside. The latest build of Azure AD… Read the rest “Azure AD Connect Express Install Upgrade – Build 1.1.105.0”
The directory synchronization program managers have been hard at work adding more and more documentation to the Azure repository. The content is currently being published to azure.microsoft.com. For example Introducing Azure AD Connect takes us through the identity management steps when connecting to Azure AD.
Please note that this post is based on the upgrade to 1.0.9131.0 which was released in De… Read the rest “Azure AD Connect Express Install Upgrade – Build 1.0.9131.0”