Azure Basics Part 7 – Syncing Azure AD with local AD

In this post I’ll talk about syncing Azure Active Directory with local Windows Server AD. Like most of my latest ports, we’ll do it in new portal where Azure AD feature is still in preview. So we start with connecting to server that we’ll use for synchronization. Note that it’s not recommended to use your DC…

Presenting at Microsoft Sinergija 16

I’m very happy to have opportunity to present at Sinergija 16 that takes place in Belgrade from 17th to 19th October. Also, it’s special honor that I have 2 sessions this year. Both sessions are on 2nd day(18th October), first at 13:40-14:40 in Adriatic 2 room and second at 16:20-17:20 at Baltic room. First session will be…

Azure Basics Part 6 – Template Deployment

In my last post I mentioned ‘Deployment scripts’ and after that I got few comments and e-mails about this subject. So I decided to make it subject of my next post. Template deployment is one of the benefits of ARM (Azure Resource Manager). ARM enables you to bind different resources into resource group and view…

Azure Basics Part 5 – Azure SQL Administration

In last post I wrote about creating new Azure SQL database. At the end of post, I mentioned that features available from SSMS when connected to Azure SQL are very poor when compared to full MS SQL Server. When we compare these two, we can see that in Azure SQL we are missing Server objects,…