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  • Microsoft Band and Web Tiles

    Edit (10/7 2015): Added Images

    To day MS announced a thing that was pretty cool… The ability to easily add an information stream to your Microsoft Band. All you need is an RSS feed and an icon image file… lets do it

    1. Go to http://developer.microsofthealth.com/WebTile/ and click get started
    2. Choose a layout

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    3. Input your RSS adress

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    4. Assign your datafields to the specific fields on the band by drag and drop. I used Channel.Titel, item.title and item.encoded.

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    5. Enter information about your app and add an icon (46 x 46) it needs to be a PNG and have a transparent background

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    6. Download the app and either send it by email och save it to OneDrive

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    7. Open it on your phone
    8. Done

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    9. That all for today /Johan

  • Geek Trick: Custom “New Tab Page” in Google Chrome

    Yesterday I signed up for WunderList (since Microsoft bought it i thought I’d give it a try) and I noticed that there were a Extension in the Google Chrome store which displays my Wunderlist as a “New Tab Page”. That got me thinking: I wonder if I could set up any page as a New Tab Page… Like Todoist, which is the todolist manager I use.

    I looked in the Chrome Store and found Replace New Tab Page which I installed and customized to display Todoist… Happy Days

    /Johan

  • Download all Ignite sessions… Using oneget…

    Hi

    Today I will highlite a couple of things…

    First of all: If you have not used OneGet (which comes with Windows 10) you should definately take loog at it. It lets you install software and powershell modules from different repositories on the internet (think Apt-get on Linux)

    Second of all… My colleagues at AddLevel has created a PowerShell module for downloading the Ignite sessions automatically and it is available from Technet Gallery which makes it downloadable by using OneGet… Here is how you do it:

      1. Start an elevated Powershell prompt on your Windows 10 Computer
      2. Enter Find-Module CH9 | Format-List to have a look at the information about the package. If this is the first time you use Oneget, Powershell will ask you if it is OK to install the NuGet provider.

      1. If you want to install the package use: Find-Module CH9 | Install-Module
      2. Once you have installed the module, use get-command -module CH9 to fund which CMDlets are available

      1. To download all Mikael Nystroms sessions from Ignite 2015 use this:

        Get-CH9EventItem -Speaker “Mikael Nystrom” -EventName Ignite -Region NorthAmerica -Year 2015 | Save-CH9EventItem -StorePath C:\Users\johan.persson\Downloads

    /Johan

  • Using OneNote to post blogs in WordPress

    I have for a while now been using Windows Live Writer to create Blog Posts on my WordPress Blog. Since Windows Live Writer is not beeing updated “alot” any more I have been trying to find a replacement for a while now. I was quite happy the other day when I saw that MS has created a solution to use OneNote (one of my absolute favorite applications) to post blog posts.

    To install this you start by going to the admin console on your WordPress Blog and in the Plugins sections search for OneNote and install One Note Publisher. When the install is done activate the Plugin and click Settings

    Click the link that says “Click here for instructions…” to create a new application and get the MSA ClientID and Client Secret…




     

     

    When you have gotten the info from your new application you will have to enter them in WordPress

    To create a new posting you write it in OneNote and then you go to the new post screen in WordPress and press the little OneNote icon and browse to your post, select it and it will magically appear in your edit window (atleast within 20 seconds) and you can add category and click Publish as usual…

    BTW This post was of course posted using OneNote 🙂

    /Johan

  • Set up Site-to-Site VPN from pfSense and Microsoft Azure

     

    Today I have played around a little with Azure Site-2-Site VPN
 I do not have a high-end (or for that matter low end) Cisco firewall to test with so I set it up in my lab firewall which is running pfSense.

    First of all you need to create the VPN settings in Microsoft Azure

    We start with creating a new virtual network

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    First we name the network and select the region

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    Then we add an internal DNS server. These are used to let our servers in Azure resolve DNS names in our internal environment. We also select that we will use site-to-site VPN and that we want to specify a new local network

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    We now have to specify our on-premise network which in my case is 192.168.1.0/24 and the gateway to my network (the external IP of my firewall)

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    We need to set up the new subnet and the gateway subnet

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    When the network is done we have to create a gateway network. This will take a while. You only need to use a Static Routing Gateway since you will only have a single endpoint.

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    When the gateway is created we can see that Azure is trying to connect
 so we will need to set up the other side

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    For that we need to take note of the pre-shared key and the gateway address so we can enter them into pfSense. Take note of the gateway and then click Manage Key and copy the key

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    The last thing to do is to set up the pfSense configuration. Log on to the pfSense web interface and goto VPN –  IPsec and enable IPsec.

    We start with creating the phase 1 part of the VPN tunnel. Create a new one and add the Azure gateway and the key.

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    Now we need to set up phase 2 of the IPsec tunnel.

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    First we add the local subnet (in my case 192.168.1.0/24) and then we add the remote sublet in Azure. Note that this is the complete adress space and not just the server network (in my case 10.0.0.0/8). Also verify that you are using AES as encryption algorithm and AES 256 as hash algorithm.

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    The VPN is now up and running and you can verify in Azure

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    And in pfSense (go to Status – IPsec)

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    Now you can set up a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure and connect it to your Azure Server Network and they will be accessible from your onpremise network.

    Links:
    https://knowledge.zomers.eu/pfsense/Pages/How-to-connect-an-Azure-cloud-to-pfSense-over-IPSec.aspx
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKVgIaFg1Z4

  • 2W – It management for SMBs

    Tack alla för att ni deltog igĂ„r pĂ„ Second Wednesday
 HĂ€r kommer lĂ€nkar och presentationer:

    WiFi:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2012/05/30/creating-a-secure-802-1x-wireless-infrastructure-using-microsoft-windows.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731853.aspx
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771455%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd282998%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831831.aspx
    http://windowshell.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/a-sample-802-1x-configuration-guide/
    http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3853581/Tips-and-Tricks-for-Using-8021X-in-Windows.htm
    https://communities.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/4321-102-1-7037/SImple%20NPS%20Configuration%20as%20Radius%20Part%201.pdf

    Deployment:

    http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/193/Beyond-unsupported-Deploying-Windows-10-preview-including-drivers-with-ConfigMgr-2012-R2.aspx
    http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/195/Deploying-Windows-10-build-9860-using-MDT-2013-Lite-Touch.aspx
    http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/197/How-to-create-a-Windows-10-Enterprise-build-9860-ISO.aspx
    http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/192/Beyond-unsupported-Deploying-Windows-Technical-Preview-with-MDT-2013.aspx
    http://blog.westmonroepartners.com/make-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit-mdt-2013-able-to-deploy-windows-10-windows-server-vnext-and-hyper-v-server-vnext-technical-preview/

    Samgungs Goggles:

    http://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-the-samsung-gear-vr-innovator-edition/

     

  • Lite kort info om PowerShell moduler

    Som ni sĂ€kert vet kan man koppla in moduler i Powershell som gör att man fĂ„r fler Cmdlets. I Windows Server 2012  och 2012 R2 kommer Powershell sjĂ€lv att ladda moduler om de Ă€r installerade korrekt
 Vad Ă€r dĂ„ korrekt?

    Det finns ett antal olika stÀllen dÀr man kan installera Powershell moduler

    AnvÀnd variabeln $env:PSModulePath för att ta reda pÄ var Windows letar efter moduler att autoladda. PÄ min maskin Àr standardsökvÀgarna förjande:

    C:\Users\username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
    C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules
    C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
    c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\PowerShell\Modules\

    Den första Ă€r min personliga sökvĂ€g
 varje anvĂ€ndare har en och dĂ€r kan man lĂ€gga sina egna moduler. Den Andra Ă€r en standardsökvĂ€g dĂ€r man kan lĂ€gga moduler för alla anvĂ€ndare. Nummer tre Ă€r reserverad för Windows inbyggda moduler och den fjĂ€rde beror pĂ„ att det finns en SQL server installerad pĂ„ min maskin.

    NĂ€sta punkt pĂ„ agendan Ă€r att lĂ€gga till en nu modul
 Jag vill installera Michael Niehaus modul för att hantera MDT databasen. SĂ„ jag börjar med att ladda ner den och packa upp den. Hur gör man dĂ„ för att installera den sĂ„ att Powershell kan ladda den automatiskt? Jo, jag kopierar den till antingen sökvĂ€g 1 eller 2 ovan, men för att det skall funka behöver jag lĂ€gga den i en mapp som heter samma som modulen. I mitt fall heter modulfilen MDTDB.psm1, alltsĂ„ skapar jag mappen C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\MDTDB och lĂ€gger filen dĂ€r.

    Mvh

    Johan

  • Application request routing PÅ Windows Server Essentials 2012

    Jag har en Windows Server Essentials 2012 server hemma för min interna “produktionsmiljö”. Som de flesta andra sitter jag pĂ„ en vanlig internetlina med en dynamisk adress sĂ„ jag funderade lite om man kunde anvĂ€nda Application Request Routing (ARR) för att utnyttja samma adress för att komma Ă„t min labmiljö… Jag fick idĂ©n nĂ€r jag lekte runt lite med onpremise exchange i Essentials för kunds rĂ€kning. SĂ„ jag fĂ„r vĂ€l helt enkelt testa.

    Jag börjar med att ladda ner ARR komponenten och installera den i min server. (X86 version, X64 version).

    Installationen Àr i stil med Next-Next-Finnish

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    Ladda ner och installera Web Platform Installer


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    LĂ€gg till Application Request Routing 3.0


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 och du fĂ„r en del annat pĂ„ köpet sĂ„ som URL Rewrite mm.

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    NÀr installationen Àr klar, klicka Finish och stÀng Web Platform Installer.

    NÀr installationen av Application Request Routing Àr klar, starta IIS Manager. Markera noden för din webserver.

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    I den högra panelen, dubbelklicka pÄ Application Request Routing.

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    I Actions panelen klicka Server Proxy Settings

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    Markera Enable Proxy och verifiera att HTTP version Àr satt till Pass through. I actions panelen klicka Apply för att spara

    Starta utforskaren och skapa en ny tom mapp dÀr du har dina websiter (default C:\InetPub). I IIS Managern skapa en ny site som pekar till katalogen. Döp den till samŽma namn som den site du skall skapa en reverse proxy för.

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    Min site anvÀnder SSL och behöver dÀrför ett certifikat. Installera SSL certifikatet pÄ Reverse Proxy Servern. Högerklicka pÄ den nya siten och vÀlj Edit Bindings för att konfigurera certifikatet. Eftersom jag anvÀnder SSL aktiverade jag Àven Require Server Name Indication och angav FQDN för Servern

    Markera den nya siten och dubbelklicka URL Rewrite i mittpanelen. I Actionpanelen klicka Add Rule(s), vÀlj Reverse Proxy och klicka OK.

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    Ange URLen till den site du vill omdirigera till (det Àr viktigt att den finn tillgÀnglig och kan namnupplösas internt för servern som skall fungera som Reverse Proxy)

    Nu kommer du att kunna surfa till siten pÄ insidan genom den server som Àr Reverse Proxy

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  • Svensk Segway kopia

    Det hÀr Àr hur coolt som helst

    http://p1r.crf.nu/segway/