IT Insights Blog

About us

Jan 17, 2018

We are passionate about IT and we are passionate about sharing. The only possible way for us to express our needs is to collect, enrich and share our knowledge and our everyday experiences.
This blog contains knowledge from the field and our goal is to provide helpful articles for everyone that comes across a similar problem or just wants to gain some practical knowledge about cloud technologies.

Automatically generate PowerShell Markdown documentation - Part 1

Mar 4, 2018

This blog series introduces a PowerShell module that automatically generated MarkDown documentation of your PowerShell Scripts and modules. It also gives an introduction into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) in PowerShell.

Get Server Manager Features from configuration file

Mar 6, 2018

Enable Wake-on-LAN (WOL) with PowerShell

Nov 17, 2018

With every recent Windows 10 update, and they happen a lot, Windows unfortunately also resets the power settings of the network adapters. Since I like to start both my PC and notebook from a remote location or from within the same network, I wrote a little PowerShell function to enable Wake-on-LAN (WoL) again.

Azure Active Directory License Assignment for Groups

Jan 6, 2019

The Azure Active Directory has for some time been offering the ability to assign licenses to users such as EMS, Office 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, etc.), but can also provide groups with licenses. As soon as a user is added to a group, if there are still enough licenses available, the user will receive the corresponding license assigned to the group. This works with synchronized groups from the local Active Directory as well as with Azure AD Security and dynamic groups.

Azure DevOps PowerShell Module - Part 1

Jan 20, 2019

If you are like me - at least in terms of lazyness - you automate the stuff that you face more than once. Recently, I came accross the reoccuring task of creating Azure DevOps projects with several teams over and over again.

Static Websites with Azure - Static site generators

Jan 25, 2019

This blog series explains what static site generators are, why we have chosen a static site generator for our blog, how static sites can be implemented using only Microsoft Azure technologies and when you should consider using them vs. a CMS like WordPress.

Process low level NtSecurityDescriptor

Feb 14, 2019

The SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR structure stores security related attributes of an object. It determines, who can access the object and which additional permissions are assigned. Because sometimes you are confronted with the “raw” NtSecurityDescriptor e.g. in Active Directory related scenarios, I tried give an overview about all parts of it.

Exchange hybrid user migration

Feb 18, 2019

During an Exchange online migration, some preparations must take plce in advance so users can be migrated easily to the cloud.
A typical error in the mailbox migration process occurs because of the mail domain (property: smtp/proxyaddresses) with the message “Target mailbox doesn’t have an smtp proxy”.

Global Azure Bootcamp 2019

Feb 19, 2019

Once every year, all the worldwide Azure communities come together to the Global Azure Bootcamp. This year on April 27th it’s the sixth time and we are proud to be part of it the fourth time in a row!