For those who are interested in OCS, there are two new blogs that have just been created: Office Communications Server Team Blog: https://communicationsserverteam.com/default.aspx Office Communicator Team Blog: https://communicatorteam.com/default.aspx … [Read more...] about New Office Communications Server and Office Communicator Team Blogs
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Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 2
Part 1 Installing Ansible on CentOS 7.7Create an Azure Service Principal that we will use to allow Ansible to authenticate to Azure via Dynamic Inventories.Set up a basic Azure Dynamic Inventory filtering on "include_vm_resource_groups" to test pinging a VM as well as find out the name Ansible uses to refer to this Virtual Machine in order to capture Ansible hostvars.Capture … [Read more...] about Ansible Dynamic Inventories in Azure – Part 2
Automate Azure Disk Encryption for Windows Virtual Machines
There's two methods for Encryption-At-Rest for Virtual Machines. Those methods are Storage Service Encryption and Azure Disk Encryption. I won't go into too much detail as to the differences and what Encryption-At-Rest is as all that is documented very well here. The high-level is that Storage Service Encryption (which is enabled by default and cannot be disabled) encrypts … [Read more...] about Automate Azure Disk Encryption for Windows Virtual Machines
Pass-Through Authentication Without Password Hash Synchronization Breaks Online To On-Premises Free/Busy (Updated)
Working with a customer and we decided to enable Pass-Through Authentication with SSO instead of Password Hash Synchronization. One of the several benefits of using Pass-Through Authentication instead of Password Hash Synchronization is increased security of not having your password hashes synchronized to a third party service. This is a key benefit as documented … [Read more...] about Pass-Through Authentication Without Password Hash Synchronization Breaks Online To On-Premises Free/Busy (Updated)
Lync 911 Location Based Policies Based on Network Site
Lync 2010 introduced Enhanced 911 dialing. This has been vastly documented and therefore, I will not be blogging on how Enhanced 911 works. For a great blog post on this, please see the following TechNet blog post from Jens Trier Rasmussen here. One thing Jens does touch on is using Network Sites for using the Location Policies. My intent of this blog post is show you how … [Read more...] about Lync 911 Location Based Policies Based on Network Site