Upgrade Your OneDrive Space from 5T to 25T For Free
By default, your Microsoft Developer E5 will only give you 5TB for your OneDrive accounts. Actually, Microsoft has provide a easy way to upgrade your storage limit to 25TB. It…
Azure File Shares Integrating With Local AD DS & Configure Access Through Public or Private Connections (VPN)
It is a common use case to integrate your on-prem AD DS with your Azure Storage File Shares. This post summarize the necessary steps to simplify the procedures from Microsoft…
Install Azure AD Connect to Integrate On-Prem ADFS with AAD (Hybrid Identity)
Azure AD Connect comes with several features you can optionally turn on or are enabled by default. Some features might sometimes require more configuration in certain scenarios and topologies. Filtering is…
Active Directory (AD) vs Azure AD (AAD) vs Azure AD DS (AADDS)
There are lots of confusion when talking about following three topics relating to Microsoft AD: Active Directory (AD) Azure Active Directory (AAD) Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) In this post, those terms…
Remote AAD Joined Machine Access Azure Storage File Share
This post is to summarize the steps to have your remote AAD joined Windows machine to access Azure storage file shares with proper access control.
Using Azure AD to Log Into Computer and Assign Share Folder Permission
Dec 12 2019, Microsoft announced that Azure AD (Azure active directory) authentication to Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure is now available in public preview—giving you the ability to manage and…
DD a Windows OS into Cloud Linux VM (Oracle/GCP/AWS)
This post is to record the process to change my Ubuntu Linux VM to Windows VM in Oracle cloud and other public cloud providers. There are many reasons you might…
How to Manage Azure Resources Effectively
Organize your cloud-based resources to secure, manage, and track costs related to your workloads. To organize your resources, define a management group hierarchy, consider and follow a naming convention, and…
Deploy a Free NAT Gateway, Firewall and Router in Azure – VNS3 NATe
I were looking for a free and light-weight virtual appliance to act as nat gateway in my cloud environment to do some port forwarding. Azure NSG (Network Security Group) is…
Deploy OpenWRT Virtual Machine in Azure Cloud
There are many reasons you might want to put OpenWRT into Azure Cloud. For me, I was looking for a free and light weight solution which can do routing, NAT,…
Configure IPv6 on Azure Virtual Machine
IPv6 for Azure Virtual Network was generally available worldwide starting from April 2020. During testing IPv6 I found it is quite confusing with Microsoft document, especially how to use Web…
Deploy Azure File Sync on Cloud VM and Mount Azure File Share to Machine Without Port 445
Use Azure File Sync to centralize your organization’s file shares in Azure Files, while keeping the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of an on-premises file server. Azure File Sync transforms Windows…
