Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part3

8th of January, 2019 / / No Comments

Installation and configuration of ADMT tool and Password Export Server

Now that we have got our active directories in both source and target domain ready for migration, let’s install the tools required for migration.

ADMT Migration Account

The ADMT service account needs to have administrative rights in both source and target domains. It’s a good idea to create a user specifically for the ADMT Migration, however you may still use an existing user if desired. A single service account will be used for the entire migration:

  • In the target domain, create an administrator account

Target Domain:

  • In the source domain add the same user to the built-in Administrators group (it can’t be added directly to domain admins group).
… [Keep reading] “Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part3”

Build a better technical architecture with reusable components in React for SharePoint Framework webparts

8th of January, 2019 / / No Comments

If there is a complex web part to be implemented (for eg. with over 5000 lines of code), then the important question to ask is how to distribute the implementation logic, so it could be better maintained. From a technical architecture point of view, better readability and efficiency, the react components provide a suitable solution for it.

Another important consideration for this is to increase performance of the control during build and debugging. From experience, if a control’s logic goes beyond 5000 lines of code then the build performance decreases drastically, it takes about 30 secs or more to build and another 30 secs or more to ready the control for debugging.… [Keep reading] “Build a better technical architecture with reusable components in React for SharePoint Framework webparts”

Know what you Value and how you Behave

7th of January, 2019 / / No Comments

In a previous post I discussed some tips on how to be a better consultant. A few people asked about my last tip – Stay true to your values.  They ask what are they? How do I know what I value? Do they really impact behaviour?  

What are values?

They are deeply held beliefs about behaviours or outcomes we think are important. In their book The Truth About Leadership, Kouzes & Posner do a great job of making them relevant:

Values drive commitment.

… [Keep reading] “Know what you Value and how you Behave”

Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part2

7th of January, 2019 / / No Comments

Configuring source and target domains

In the previous post of this series I discussed about the tasks involved in migrating a user from a domain to another in a hybrid exchange environment. Now let’s get down to the nitty-witty of migration.

Before getting into moving the users across to target domain, there are few things that need to be installed and configured in both source and target domain. Let’s start by looking at the configuration steps for source and target domains.… [Keep reading] “Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part2”

AWS DeepRacer – Tips and Tricks – Battery and SSH

21st of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

I was going to do an unboxing video, but Andrew Knaebel has done a well enough job of that and posted it on YouTube, so I’ll skip that part and move onto more detail on getting up and running with the AWS DeepRacer. 

A lot of this is covered in the AWS DeepRacer Getting Started Guide so I’ll try and focus on the places where it was not so clear.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – Tips and Tricks – Battery and SSH”

Retrieve Office 365 Audit logs using PowerShell and store in Azure table for quick retrieval

21st of December, 2018 / / 1 Comment

To create custom reports for Office 365 events, we could use the Audit logs from Security and Compliance center. The process is quite simple and could be implemented easily using PowerShell. In this blog, we will look at the steps for the same.

Later we will also see how we could store this data in a Azure Storage Table, so it is easy to fetch the data available.

Steps to fetch data from Office 365 Audit log using Exchange Online PowerShell

The first step in the process is to import the commands from Exchange online PowerShell.… [Keep reading] “Retrieve Office 365 Audit logs using PowerShell and store in Azure table for quick retrieval”

AWS DeepRacer – Training your reinforcement learning model in AWS Robomaker

21st of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

There seems to be many ways to get your AWS DeepRacer model trained. These are a few I have discovered:

  • The AWS DeepRacer Console (Live Preview yet to commence, GA early 2019)
  • SageMaker RL notebook
  • Locally from the DeepRacer GitHub repository
  • AWS RoboMaker sample simulation
  • AWS RoboMaker Cloud9 IDE with sample application downloaded

In this post, we will be exploring how to train a reinforcement learning model using AWS Robomaker, both with the sample application downloaded and in the Cloud9 development environment.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – Training your reinforcement learning model in AWS Robomaker”

Backups? Doesn’t Amazon handle that?

20th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

For many, the cloud is a magical place where servers just appear and your cloud provider looks after everything, or, if they at least have a concept of the servers, they just assume that the provider will also back them up. Lots of people never bothered to think about protection in a VMware environment, so why start now?

Unfortunately, while your cloud provider probably supplies the tools, you still need to do the configuration and management.… [Keep reading] “Backups? Doesn’t Amazon handle that?”

Azure Self Service Password Reset Reporting using PowerShell

20th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

Just over 18 months ago I wrote this post on using PowerShell and oAuth to access the Azure AD Reports API to retrieve MIM Hybrid Report data. This week I went to re-use that for Azure Password Reset Reporting and found out that the API had been deprecated.

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Using the error information that actually was informative I proceeded to the new API. Having authenticated as I had in the previous article, I executed the following to retrieve a list of the Audit Reports available.… [Keep reading] “Azure Self Service Password Reset Reporting using PowerShell”

Why quantitative and qualitative research needs to run together?

19th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

As a UX designer, I am in love with metrics this whole idea that we can just use data for anything and A/B tests is the best way to a great product. I think it’s just one of the worst aspects of the rise of this worship of data. Lots of teams think that quantitative data can solve all of their product problems. 

Only 24% UX professionals are reported using quantitative AND qualitative data to determine success

NN Group “Quant Qual Research in Practice survey with 429 participants”

Quantitative data doesn’t replace designers or design or replace listening to the users and it doesn’t tell us what we should be building.… [Keep reading] “Why quantitative and qualitative research needs to run together?”