Recently I did an interview on our video blog at Skill TV, talking about Azure AD with our HR Manager Elham Binai. The interview is in Norwegian and can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRHW-ZJC2w I have below provided a translated version from our interview transcript. While some questions and answers flowed a little bit different in the real recording, the transcript quite covers it all. Apologize for a couple of cuts as well, we had some problems with noise from spotlight fans and had to pause recording when that happened.

This is a follow up post from an earlier blog post on how to Publish the Cireson Self Service Portal with Azure AD Application Proxy . Is this blog post I will show how to configure a custom domain name for the same published application. Change External URL From earlier I already have published this application with the external URL of https://selfservice-skillas.msapproxy.net . I will now change this to our own domain, like this:

I had a request where the question was if it was possible to customize the Business Services Configuration Items in Service Manager, so that it could reference Organizations defined in Asset Management CMDB. In this case, the Asset Management solution in Service Manager was based on Cireson Asset Management, but the following solution could easily be applied for other Asset Management solutions as well. If you look at the built-in Configuration Items and Business Services in Service Manager, you will see that there already is a field for “Owned By Organization”.

One year ago, I published a blog article for shutting down, and later restart again, Azure Servers for one hour duration during Earth Hour 2014: https://systemcenterpoint.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/earth-hour-how-to-shut-down-and-restart-your-windows-azure-services-with-automation/ . In that article, I used three different Automation technologies to accomplish that: Scheduled PowerShell script System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator Service Management Automation in Windows Azure Pack Today is Earth Hour 2015 (www.earthhour.org ). While the Automation technologies referred still can be used for shutting down and restarting Azure Servers, I thought I should create an updated blog article using Azure Automation that has been launched during the last year.

The Scenario Update: This blog post is the first part in a series. See: Part 2 - Using a Custom Domain Name for an Application Published with with Azure AD Application Proxy I have been looking at different usable scenarios for publishing internal sites via the Azure AD Application Proxy, and decided to have a go at publishing the Cireson Self Service Portal. This will give me some interesting possibilities for pre-authentication and controlling user access.

Recently I decided to scrap my old Windows Azure Pack environment and create a new environment for Windows Azure Pack partly based in Microsoft Azure. As a part of this reconfiguration I have set up a new SMA server, and wanted to copy my existing SMA runbooks from the old Server to the new Server. This little script did the trick for me, hope it can be useful for others as well.