Creating Multiple Hyper-V VMs via PowerShell
Assuming we want to create multiple https://www.imanami.com/powershell-and-active-directory/?utm_source=mstechcommunity&utm_medium=qa&utm_campaign=qa-powershell-and-active-directory, Below script thinks that you have VMName list and Creates VM names according to each name which are separated coma and single quoted VM Names in a variable. Pre-requisites Add an ISO file for OS Installation and puts the HDD in to the directory you will mention in $VMLOC variable and assigns existing Hyper-V Switch to all VM’s. Script starts--------- #Below command will load the Hyper-V module for PowerShell. Get-Command -Module Hyper-V # This script creates a Multiple VM's Based on the Names you provided. #Enter the VM names as mentioned below. $VMName = 'Server001','server002' #Enter the ISO File path which contains the Windows Installation files $ISOpath = "D:\library\Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1_x64fre_server_eval_en-us-DVD.iso" #Path of the VM HDD file stored $VMLOC = "d:\test" #Name of virtual switch which will be used in the VMs $VMNet = "vEthernet-ADDC-M2" #Create the VM's Foreach($vm in $VMName) { New-VM -Name $VM -Generation 2 -SwitchName $VMNet New-VHD -Path "$VMLOC\$VM\$vm.vhdx" -Dynamic -SizeBytes 40GB ADD-VMHardDiskDrive -VMName $vm -Path "$VMLOC\$VM\$vm.vhdx" Set-VM $VM -MemoryStartupBytes 1GB Add-VMDvdDrive -VMName $vm -Path $ISOpath Set-VMFirmware -VMName $vm -FirstBootDevice ((Get-VMFirmware -VMName $vm).BootOrder | Where-Object Device -like *DvD*).Device } #Starts all of the VMs and installation of OS will be started. Start-VM -Name $VMName Script Ends------------- The only problem I have faced with this script is by using Microsoft ISO files for OS, which is marked by an end user's input when installation starts, asking for "Press any key to start installation........."Azure AD: Cross Tenant access requires multiple MFA registration?
It is a requirement for Microsoft Partners to enable MFA for all users in organization, but as far as https://bit.ly/3tqQY2j is concerned, Organizations can choose to enable/disable MFA for guests and single users. Mostly organizations select MFA to be enabled for whole Azure AD while setting up tenant, which can be later enabled/disabled for individuals. Let's focus on "Why can a guest's home tenant not send some kind of attestation that MFA is in place on the home user account?" One of the user to above question with in community speaks as follows: “We have lots of our customers in our tenant as guests for Teams channels because we invite the customer primary contact(s) into a channel that has their support engineers present. When we switched on conditional access to enforce MFA on all users the guests got prompted to setup MFA even though they already have MFA on their home account. For the time being I've added an exclusion on our conditional access policy to exclude guests and the dashboard is still saying we're 100% compliant after a few days, but what I'm reading here is that potentially these guest accounts are going to become useless unless all the guests wrestle with adding MFA on every instance they're a guest (which is totally mad). We're not creating another tenant and shoving all our CSP stuff in there, it just adds so much friction and if anything reduces security because right now when someone joins or leaves our organization their https://bit.ly/3CLWIrQ account sets up and cuts off their access to everything. If we begin having separate accounts in another tenant for CSP you can bet someone is going to forget to cut that off when someone leaves and access carries on until someone notices. We are 100% on board with MFA being required, and I understand requiring MFA on a guest that doesn't reside in another Azure AD tenant (like a random @gmail.com user should be made to setup MFA), but where the user originates from Azure AD and has MFA on their home account, can it be that hard for MSFT to pass some kind of trusted flag across to the guest login that skips MFA if the home account has it?” MY TAKE: I understand requiring MFA on a guest that doesn't reside in another Azure AD tenant (like a random @gmail.com user should be made to setup MFA), but where the user originates from Azure AD and has MFA on their home account, can it be that hard for MSFT to pass some kind of trusted flag across to the guest login that skips MFA if the home account has it? In same thread another user shared a suggestion for this feature to be available, but link may have expired or feature no longer being considered.
Need advice on setting up ADFS, Azure AD Connect, and Multifactor Authentication
Hi All, I’ve been asked to setup an ADSF server to give multifactor authentication for a client company. I know how to setup multi-factor authentication for Office 365 environment, but have never setup ADFS and multifactor authentication. Can you please answer some questions to point me in the right direction: Is there a video or a webpage that has step-by-step, beginners guide on setting up ADFS and Multifactor Authentication? Is ADFS being phased out and being replaced by the Azure AD Connect application? What are the benefits of using Azure AD with ADFS to setup multifactor-authentication? If I persuade the company to purchase Azure AD to use in conjunction with ADFS to setup multifactor authentication, is there a video or a webpage that has a step-by-step, beginners guide on setting up Azure AD, ADFS and Multifactor Authentication? I hope you can help and any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
