The Case of the Missing Technical Preview build

I am trying out the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and have been running build 9926 for some time. Today (19032015) Microsoft released build 10041 and I installed it immediately, of course. Not surprisingly I had some problems which were so bad that I reverted back to the 9926 build. I later figured out that it …

Add the Azure VM agent to existing Virtual Machines

Here is a quick rundown of how to add the base VM agent to existing Azure VMs: Find all your VMs that currently do not have the agent installed: Get-AzureVM  | where { $_.GuestAgentStatus -eq $null } or this variation if you only want to get the VMs that are actually running: Get-AzureVM  | where …

Customized claims in ADFS

Introduction The claims pipeline in ADFS is an interesting piece of software. I recently had a chance to re-familiarize myself with it. A third party SaaS application used an organizations internal employee numbers together with their own customer number for that organization to uniquely identify users. This called for issuing a claim to the SaaS …