Introduction to Azure for AWS experts Aug. 11, 2017, 12:40 p.m.

This article helps Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts understand the basics of Microsoft Azure accounts, platform, and services. It also covers key similarities and differences between the AWS and Azure platforms.

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Configuring Azure Active Directory Connect with an Exchange Resource Forest Topology – Adrian Moore Oct. 4, 2016, 5:03 p.m.

This post is about using AAD Connect to synchronise your On-Premises Active Directory accounts to Azure AD when you have a resource forest topology, with Exchange in one forest (the resource) and identity (the user account) in another forest.

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Default checks when implementing Hybrid Identity, Part 3: Linked Mailboxes Oct. 4, 2016, 5:01 p.m.

The first and most straightforward method is changing the scope of Azure AD Sync to include the disabled accounts that reside in the Exchange resource forest. You won’t necessarily need to exclude the accounts with linked mailboxes that won’t synchronize, because Azure AD Sync considers these out of scope and therefor won’t cause duplicates in the Connector Space towards Azure Active Directory.

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End to End Deployment with Microsoft Azure Sept. 20, 2016, 2:58 p.m.

If you're a sysadmin who needs to deploy resources in Microsoft's Azure platform your choices have been limited to either the web portal or complex scripts. Today I want to highlight a set of new technologies that when combined together provide a way to move away from manual processes and complex scripts and instead produce a declarative, reusable, and easy to manage and maintain solution for deployment to Azure.

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Azure AD Connect Health Agent installation Sept. 19, 2016, 3:01 p.m.

The agent uses System.Net to make web requests instead of Microsoft Windows HTTP Services. The configured Http Proxy address will be used to pass-through encrypted Https messages. Authenticated proxies (using HTTPBasic) are not supported.

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Installing And Configuring Azure AD Connect Health Agent for ADDS / ADFS Sept. 16, 2016, 12:28 p.m.

Covers the many various errors and failures that are encountered installing the Azure AD Connect Health Agent.

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Azure Pricing Calculator June 28, 2016, 1:19 p.m.

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Migrating resources from AWS to Microsoft Azure April 12, 2016, 5:10 p.m.

This topic (inter-cloud migrations), as you might guess, isn’t easily captured in a single blog post, nor, realistically in a series, so what I’m going to do here is provide some basics to consider.

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