When you migrate your SQL Server data estate to Azure SQL Database managed instance, what you get is not just a good old SQL Server, secured and enriched with the newest features, and without a burden of managing backups, patching, ... continue reading

Over the last couple of years, we havesharedwhy it is business critical to migrate and upgrade apps and services running on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. As you are aware, on January 14th, 2020, support for Windows Server 2008 ... continue reading

I was recently challenged with having to create technical demos for a Microsoft Ignite the tour session called “Migrating to Windows Server 2019” (watch the recording here - awesome session). The demos for this talk centered around taking a bunch ... continue reading

In my previous blog post, I explained how we can manage Azure AD users by using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module. In there I also shared many examples. You can access it via https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ITOps-Talk-Blog/Step-by-Step-Managing-Users-via-the-Azure-Act... In this blog post ... continue reading

Disaster can hit at any time. When thinking about disaster and recovery, I think of 3 things Be prepared Plan on not involving humans Automatic, not automated Having a good strategy is a must. You want to be able to ... continue reading

Microsoft Graph provides a unified programmability model to access a vast amount of data in Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Windows 10 and so on. As part of it, Azure AD PowerShell for Graph module allows us ... continue reading

First published on MSDN on Jan 27, 2016 With this post I’d like to spend some time discussing a common scenario I run into often. Though geared more toward education, I think this solution could also be adapted for a ... continue reading

First published on MSDN on Aug 25, 2015 Consideration before you install this feature Have you Already Installed MIM 2016 ? Was it a Clean Install or an Upgrade ? Have you verified that you have all PAM Prerequisites completed ... continue reading

First published on MSDN on May 26, 2015 With this post, I’d like to address the issue of FIM portal administrators. Too often, I see one of two scenarios: either a customer has entirely too many administrators in FIM (which ... continue reading

First published on MSDN on Apr 16, 2015 This is the third and final post in my series on deprovisioning. In case you missed them, check out post one (regular disconnectors) and post two (explicit disconnectors). In this post, I’ll ... continue reading