Sophos UTM & Microsoft Azure Gateways & VNet Peering

There is a slight but significant difference in setting up your Sophos UTM to connect to Azure via a gateway created in a classic deployment or in an ARM deployment. This article describes perfectly how to setup a VPN connection to Azure using a gateway deployed via the classic deployment. And this article describes how to create…

Unnamed Disconnected Sessions – RDSH

Hi, On 02/12/2016 Microsoft released a version 2.0 of the KB article “The logon process hangs at the “Welcome” screen or the “Please wait for the User Profile Service” error message window” with which in one case at a customer resolved the issue know by me as the “Unnamed Disconnected Sessions” issue. This issue shows…

UE-V Credential Roaming & Outlook 2013 updates

!!! UPDATE !!! Microsoft has released the “April 14, 2015 update for Outlook 2013 (KB2965270)” update in which the issue described below has been fixed. There is one manual action a user needs to do which is a bit nasty if a user also has certificates that are romaed. The UEV package needs to be…

Some useful Hyper-V Virtual Machine registry information

Ever wondered what the meaning is of the registry entries which you can find under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters? Well I did so I started digging! Example Azure Virtual Machine [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters] “HostName”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “HostingSystemEditionId”=dword:00000008 “HostingSystemOsMajor”=dword:00000006 “HostingSystemOsMinor”=dword:00000002 “HostingSystemProcessorArchitecture”=dword:00000009 “HostingSystemSpMajor”=dword:00000000 “HostingSystemSpMinor”=dword:00000000 “PhysicalHostName”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “PhysicalHostNameFullyQualified”=”RD009CFA1C5432” “VirtualMachineId”=”68DDDEBF-E94F-4C3C-9872-35A6BDE52F60” “VirtualMachineName”=”04820db9-7477-4503-9eeb-df46f0969612” HostName The name of the domain name system (DNS) domain assigned to the host…