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Azure AD Connect Best Practices

The disaster I had gave me some good pointers regarding how one should configure and use their Office 365 tenant and on-premises AD together. Here’s some suggestions: Always use a…

noobient 2015-04-08No Comments

Azure AD Connect Disaster Recovery

Prelude Yeah, I know, the title’s already promising enough. And yeah, it did happen. At some point in my previous post I mentioned that after group filtering failed on me…

noobient 2015-04-08No Comments

Azure AD Connect Preview 2

Overview I’ve just covered my experience with Azure AD Connect Preview 1, but here’s the new preview already. Some highlights: In-place DirSync upgrade is supported. Group-based filtering, in addition to…

noobient 2015-03-29No Comments

Migrating from DirSync to Azure AD Connect

Preface So DirSync is a thing of the past now. It’s deprecated but it’s supposed to keep working. For us, it didn’t. Password sync just never occured, so when a…

noobient 2015-03-29No Comments

FileVault with Active Directory

Remember storing BitLocker passwords in Active Directory? Wouldn’t it be great if you could store OS X FileVault keys the same way? Well, actually, you can. Not out-of-box, but technically…

noobient 2015-03-28No Comments

Custom Ringtones for Cisco VoIP Phones

I have no idea why Cisco hasn’t provided a simple WAV to RAW converter tool yet, even though it should be a nobrainer. There’s barely any info on the required…

noobient 2015-03-04No Comments

Access OneDrive for Business via Drive Letter

OneDrive creates and uses a folder under your home directory, but it’s not the easiest to use that way. If you want to access it via a drive letter, you…

noobient 2015-03-04No Comments