Set or change a Teams users call forwarding settings with PowerShell

So, as the title says, its now possible to manage a user in your Team tenants call forwarding settings. This is a feature that has been missed by many UC administrator since Teams replaced Skype for Business. But now it’s finally here – Sort of, the features is in preview. The features was release with the new preview version of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module on the 9 December.

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Using Azure Service principal to run PowerShell script on Azure SQL server (Managed instance)

Azure service principals (or App regs.) is nice secure way to connect to fx. a Azure SQL manage instance and then perform querys using PowerShell. This is an ideal alternativ to using a local Service Account. The upside to this is that you can authenticate with a secret or with a certificate that you create for yourself or the machine you are running your script(s) from.

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Assign Azure SQL database permissions to AAD group

Intro
When you create an Azure SQL database (DB) right of the bat, you will be faced with the need to assign permission in the database to users or security groups. Normally on an on-premises SQL DB it’s no problem and can be done using the GUI in SSMS. But for an Azure SQL DB, there is no GUI to assign permissions, you will need to use SQL queries to assign permissions to users or groups. Let me show you how to assign SQL DB permissions to a AAD security group.

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