Sander Berkouwer

Review: Softerra Adaxes – Automating Active Directory management

Watchdog Task Manager Lite is a free app for Android that warns you if an app’s CPU usage exceeds a certain threshold. Apps that consume too many CPU resources cause two problems: they drain your battery and they can slow down your phone.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 8: Delegating Administration

Knowledge Vault is a cloud-based management, auditing, reporting, and analytics solution for Microsoft Office 365 Exchange on-premises, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive for Business and Salesforce.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 6: Onboarding

On April 3, 2015, the Work Folders app for iOS was updated in the Apple App Store to a Universal App, with support for both iPad and iPhone. In this article, I’ll review the iPhone version of the app and show some of its features.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 4: Portals

In my last post, I talked about different ways to set up the infrastructure that will power your Veeam Backup & Replication backups. There are a lot of moving parts, from the server itself to the repositories and proxies, necessary to efficiently use the product. Now that all of that is out of the way, in this post I’m going to cover a lot of the options you have in configuring the three major protection job types: backup, backup copy, and replicas. Each of these has its own wrinkles, so settle in.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication – Part 3: Configuring the service and server

Docker is an open-source application deployment solution that might play an important role in the Windows world soon. In this introduction to Docker, you will learn how to install and test Docker on Windows.

BYOD lab in Azure – Demos and user settings

ntpasswd (Offline NT Password & Registry Eidtor) is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows you to reset a Windows 8.1 password on a computer where you forgot your password.

BYOD lab in Azure – Multi-factor authentication

Congratulations! You have boldly gone where few men have gone before. You have uncovered new territories and have become acquainted with rare new Microsoft technologies. The only question now is how to convey this new knowledge to colleagues and (potential) customers. This final article in this series shows you how to lay out demos with your new test lab and how to configure users and settings for these demos.

BYOD lab in Azure – File server and Work Folders

Splunk is a general-purpose analytics tool. In this post, you’ll learn how to leverage Splunk for analyzing system logs.

BYOD lab in Azure – Edge server and Web Application Proxy

You forgot the domain admin password? This article explains how you can reset the administrator password in a Windows Server 2008 (R2) and Windows Server 2012 (R2) domain.

BYOD lab in Azure – Trust relationships

AutoAdministrator is a free tool that allows you to automate all kinds of system administration tasks with an easy-to-use GUI.

Windows 8 vs. Windows 8.1

Yesterday, various news sites covered the case of hosting service Code Spaces, which is shutting down because of a ransom attack. Perhaps this is the time to rethink your backup strategy.

BYOD lab in Azure – Webserver

When your organization migrates from earlier versions of Windows to more recent versions of Windows, a choice presents itself. While it seems like a small choice, choosing between Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is, in fact, a major choice that defines the organization’s view on technology.

BYOD lab in Azure – Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)

In my last post, I explained how to install Android under VirtualBox. Today, I’ll explain how you can change the screen resolution.