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Getting started with the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

The AWS Serverless Application Model, also referred to as AWS SAM, is an open-source framework that allows you to...
Azure AD certificate-based user authentication

Certificate-based authentication is an extremely robust and secure mechanism for validating a user's identity. However, until recently, you had...
Configuring SSO between Active Directory and Azure using pass-through authentication

Pass-through authentication is an alternative to AD FS and password hash synchronization in Azure AD. This technology allows users...
Passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and Azure Active Directory

Getting rid of unsecure password authentication is becoming a priority for many businesses. Companies using Microsoft's Azure Active Directory...
Writing an AWS Lambda function using Go (Golang)

In my last article, titled "What is serverless computing? An introduction to AWS Lambda," we took a detailed look...
Azure Conditional Access policies not working in Google Chrome

Microsoft offers many solutions and services to defend your Microsoft 365 tenancy. One of the most touted features available...
Encrypt Microsoft 365 email

Customers using Exchange Online can take advantage of Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (Microsoft OME) as an online service...
Azure Arc: Manage on-prem Windows Server VMs with Azure Resource Manager

Azure Arc allows organizations to extend the Azure Resource Manager control plane from the public cloud to their on-premises...
Pip install Boto3

In my previous post, I explained how to install Boto3 with VS Code on Windows. Even though all components...
Using Azure AD dynamic groups for Microsoft 365 resources

Azure AD supports so-called dynamic groups. A dynamic group can comprise devices or users on which you set query...
What is serverless computing? An introduction to AWS Lambda

The term serverless computing sounds very cool, but what does it actually mean? In this post, I will introduce...
Price increase for Microsoft 365: Save costs with hybrid licensing

Effective March 1, 2022, prices for some Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions will increase by up to 25...
Install Boto3 (AWS SDK for Python) in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) on Windows

In this guide, I show you how to install Boto3, the AWS SDK for Python, in Microsoft's free Visual...
Stellar Toolkit for Exchange: Repair database , Migrate to Microsoft 365, , export mailboxes

Repairing, migrating, and exporting Exchange Server data can be challenging. Learn how the Stellar Toolkit for Exchange can make...
Automatically mount an NVMe EBS volume in an EC2 Linux instance using fstab

If you attach an EBS volume to an Amazon EC2 instance, you can configure its device name. However, the...
Using nested templates and a PowerShell script to deploy multiple Azure resource groups with virtual machines and supporting resources

If you have to deploy several virtual machines together with their resources to multiple Azure resource groups, you can...
Joining Azure AD fails—Can’t connect to URL for your organization’s MDM terms

When joining a device to Azure AD, you may receive the following error message: Something went wrong. It looks like...
Permanently delete a Key Vault in Azure using PowerShell

In this post, we will be looking at purging options to permanently delete a Key Vault and fully erase...
Reset OneDrive synchronization

The OneDrive client synchronizes files between the local computer and the cloud. Sometimes, it can happen that this synchronization...