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Removing Windows 10 bloatware using PowerShell
Anyone who's working with and administering Windows 10 will notice it comes with a bunch of (annoying and unnecessary) preinstalled apps and features. Fortunately there is an easy way to remove this bloatware using PowerShell. Richard Newton did a very good job by...
Tutorial: Expose Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations onebox using a custom domain
In this tuturial you'll learn how to expose a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations onebox (VHD edition) to the public Internet using a custom domain name. For example, the client URL becomes "dyn365demo.mydomain.com" in stead of default URL...
Top 5 reasons to backup Office 365
"Why should I backup Office 365? It's already included, isn't it !?"I'm afraid you're wrong 🙂 . A common misconception about the migration to a Cloud-based platform is the assumption that you no longer have to care about a backup strategy anymore since it's "already...
Tutorial: Enable Windows 10 passwordless FIDO2 sign-in
In addition to my previous tutorial (FIDO2 passwordless authentication in Azure AD) I will explain how to enable FIDO2 passwordless sign-in on Windows 10 version 1903 as well. What you'll need: Enabled FIDO2 authentication in your Azure AD tenant, preferably by...
Azure AD Application Proxy now supports SAML
Last week Microsoft announced official (GA) SAML support for Azure AD Application Proxy! Security Assertion Markup Language, aka SAML, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties. A typical use case is the communication...
Tutorial: Configure FIDO2 passwordless authentication in Azure AD
In this tutorial we'll explain and walk through the configuration of passwordless authentication in Azure AD, based on FIDO2 authentication. Before diving into all of the required steps, let's first explore and understand the basic concepts. What the heck is FIDO2?...