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In the last weeks, I have received many questions about how I prepared for Microsoft Azure Exam AZ-900. That’s why today I want to tell you in this article, the pages I consulted and the courses I have taken to prepare for the exam.

In this mini-post, I want to show you how to perform an offline defragmentation of the Active Directory database. To perform the maintenance of the AD DS database offline, we will use the NtdsUtil.

This post is part of a series in which I will show how to create different resources in Microsoft Azure. Today I will show you how to create an essential component: an Azure Load Balancer.

The people who follow @ me on Twitter know that I received an Azure sphere about a month ago. Due to certification exams and other issues, I have not been able to play with this board before.

This post is part of a series in which I will show how to create different resources in Microsoft Azure. Today I will show you how to create a component that every Azure subscription should have: an Azure Recovery Service vault.

In this post, I want to show you how to install and configure the role of Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2016 using Windows PowerShell. Data Deduplication is a role service that conserves storage space on an NTFS volume by locating redundant data and storing one only copy of that data instead of multiple copies.

Yesterday I passed the Microsoft exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals. This exam is ideal to demonstrate basic knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. This exam measures the following skills and knowledge:

This morning I took the exam Microsoft AZ-102 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Transition, which is a composite of two standalone exams: AZ-100 Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment and AZ-101 Microsoft Azure Integration and Security.

If you want to track the use of a virtual machine in your Hyper-v environment. This blog post may interest you. Resource metering uses PowerShell cmdlets to track various performance metrics for individuals VMs, such as:

In this post, I want to show you how to use Group Policy Loopback processing to assign user policies to computer objects. As we know, A user GPO is applied to an organizational unit (OU) that contains users, and a computer GPO is applied to a UO that contains computers.

Sometimes it is necessary to create a new role to adjust it to our needs. Today, I want to show you how to create a custom role using Azure PowerShell with the JSON template.

If you want to prevent accidental deletion or changes to resources in your Azure Resource Groups, Microsoft Azure offers a great solution: Azure Resource Locks. In this post, I want to show you how to use Azure Resource Locks in Microsoft Azure using Azure PowerShell.

This post, shows, how to use Azure PowerShell to add tags to an Azure Resource. Tags are metadata that you can add to an Azure resource. You can tag resources with name/value pairs to organize and group resources in your subscription.

This quick blog post shows how to install the Azure Powershell Az module that replaces the AzureRM module. Before starting the module’s installation, it is important to know that Az and AzureRM modules cannot be imported in the same session or used in the same script.

In this mini-post, I want to show you how to enable or disable a global catalog on a Domain Controller (DC) using Windows PowerShell. To perform this task, use the Set-ADObject cmdlet with the following syntax:

It is likely that by using the BPA (Best Practices Analyzer) on a new DNS server, you will find the following warning. In this post, I want to show you how to use the Set-DnsServerScavenging cmdlet to correct this warning.

In this post, I want to show you how to install the Windows PowerShell Web Access gateway on a server that is running Windows Server 2016 by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets.

This quick blog post, shows, how to use Azure PowerShell to deploy a site-to-site VPN Gateway between Azure and On-Premise. Requirements: This tutorial assumes that you already have a Microsoft Azure account set up and you have the PowerShell Azure module on your machine installed.

Hello, today I want to show you how to use the group policy to configure the registry transcription to audit the use of PowerShell on servers. Requirements: This tutorial assumes that the target system already has WMF 5.

In this post, I want to show you how to export a Resource Group to an ARM template using the command line. This tutorial assumes that you already have a Microsoft Azure account set up.