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Convert Entra Connect Synchronized Users To Cloud Managed Identities

| | Azure, M365

If you’re using Entra Connect and you’re planning to eliminate Active Directory, you’ll eventually need to remove Entra Connect and convert all users to cloud-managed identities. Entra Connect synchronizes your AD identities with Entra, giving the users a cloud identity in addition to their on-prem identity. However, AD remains the source of authority for management. […]

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Auto Rotate Background & Lock Screen Images with AZ Automation + Graph API

| | Azure, Intune

There’s no shortage of posts regarding updating the background and lock screen images for your endpoints. The question that usually comes up is how to do this on Windows 10/11 Pro. This is because the Intune device restriction policy makes adding background/lock screen images easy, but it’s only compatible with Windows Enterprise/Edu SKUs. If that

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Exceeding the normal churn rate limit for Azure Site Resovery? How to Migrate to a Premium Cache Storage Accounts

| | Azure

If you’re reading this, you probably know what Azure Site Recovery is (ASR). At a high level, ASR is a disaster recovery solution that replicates workloads on your Azure VMs or Physical on-prem servers to a secondary Azure Region. This allows you to failover your production workloads to the secondary region with minimal downtime. Configuring

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Removing Orphaned Local User Profiles in Pooled AVD Environments

| | Azure, Windows

The most common AVD setup is a pooled configuration with FSLogix. This means that you have two or more session hosts and a group of many users who connect to those hosts. FSLogix handles the user profiles, so it doesn’t matter which session host the user connects to. Their profile is mounted to whichever host

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Moving from Classic to New Teams on AVD and a script to automate it

| | Azure, Teams

Intro If an organization is using AVD, there’s a very high likelihood they’re also using Teams. As most of you probably know, Teams went through a transformation around a year ago where a new Teams client was built and became GA. The original Teams application became known as “Classic Teams” and the newly build Teams

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