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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
How to configure SAML SSO with the Cisco Meraki Dashboard and Azure Active Directory
Introduction The fine people at Cisco Meraki have recently enabled SAML SSO support to their Meraki Dashboard service. For those of you who don’t know Meraki is Cisco’s cloud managed networking solution. Basically you manage all your networking equipment from a web portal. For more information about Meraki, go here. Whenever I start using a …
How to find the GUID of your Azure AD tenant
All Azure AD tenants are named as sub-domains of the root onmicrosoft.com. For example yourcompany.onmicrosoft.com. Some very early adopters of eg. Office 365 might also have tenant names that look like this emea.microsoftonline.com, but AFAIK all new tenants will inherit the onmicrosoft.com domain. But names are fickle, so every Azure AD tenant also has a …
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Azure AD Sync/Connect Events
Here is a table of Azure AD Sync/Connect related entries that you will find in the Application log of your sync server. Use this table to quickly create filers and find what you are looking for. This is not a complete list! [table id=1 /]
New preview version of Azure AD PowerShell available (Yes, it now supports ADAL!)
I guess the title says it all! Here is the link to the Microsoft Connect site to download: http://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/ Connect-MSOLService now brings up the familiar ADAL prompt with MFA and ADFS support etc. Make sure to read the release notes included, and you should probably uninstall the Microsoft Online Sign In assistant. Here are the …
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Office Modern Authentication (ADAL) and Autodiscover
The introduction of Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) support in Office 2013 and Office 265 ProPlus is great news. The Office suite of applications is now able to take advantage of advanced authentication options like federated SSO and MFA. Using ADAL with Office is referred to using Office with modern authentication. Modern authentication was recently …
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When configuring the Azure Load Balancer for Remote Desktop Gateway…
make sure you DO NOT enable Direct Server Return on your endpoint Load Balanced Set: In November of 2014 support was added for Source IP Affinity (also known as session affinity or client IP affinity) in the Azure Load Balancer. Before that it was not compatible with Remote Desktop Gateway. You could sort of load …
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