Microsoft Intune compliance on Fedora Workstation

Introduction Officially only Ubuntu and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are supported for the Intune Company portal app. This app allows the state of the physical device be checked and become part of an assurance level when a user signs in through Entra Conditional Access. Just like you verify that a user has entered the correct …

Packer for Azure Peculiarities

Building images on Azure with Packer I have discovered some things that might be useful to others: Cannot locate resource group means something else Error when doing Azure Managed Disk builds: Build ‘azure-arm’ errored: Cannot locate the managed image resource group <your RG> What Packer really means is that your credentials are wrong. Check your …

Migrating blog database from ClearDB to Azure DB for MySQL

Introduction All of us running our blogs on WordPress have some knowledge of MySQL, which is WordPress’ database back-end. I run my WordPress blog (the one you are reading now) in Azure App Service. We used to be able to create MySQL databases in the Azure portal directly. This was made possible through a partnership …

But I _am_ on the Internet!

For some time I have had some strange symptoms on Windows 10 systems when they were accessing the Internet over a VPN connection. In my case the VPN provider was TigerVPN. This issue is unrelated to the provider, but is instead caused by the Windows networking stack when used with the OpenVPN software (which many …

Copying Azure Managed disks between regions

I recently had the need to copy some Azure managed disks to another region. Since managed disks are not backed by storage accounts like unmanaged disks, you cannot simply do a blob copy and be done. You have to copy your managed disk to a temporary storage account in your target region and create a …

A computer by any other name… would be better;how to change the hostname of a Windows 10 computer during setup

Introduction Over the years the setup process for the Windows OS has been streamlined and optimized a lot. It used to be that you have to input a lot of information throughout the installation and the actual transferring of the OS files onto the hard drive took a long time. Now, the data copying has …

Fun with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Ever since the Windows Subsystem for Linux/Bash on Ubuntu on Windows feature in Windows 10 I have been playing around with it. Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and Microsoft, made the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) together, and it enables bash, which is the de facto default CLI shell on Linux, to …

Azure AD allows duplicate group names

You would expect that a service that is responsible for the naming of objects within a namespace should prohibit the creation of objects with the same leaf name and fully qualified name. Put simply you should not be able to have two files in the same directory with the exact same name in your file …