Azure Active Directory

Azure AD – New integration assistant for registered application in Azure AD (preview)

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As you Azure AD provides the ability to integrate with applications, either published through the marketplace, Azure AD Proxy (to publish internal apps) or by registering your own custom application. Well, as announced during the online Build 2020 event, the registered application feature has been updated to provide an integration assistant helping you fixing potential […]

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Azure AD – New Conditional Access full screen experience (preview)

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As you know, Azure Active Directory (AAD) comes with a security capability to setup conditional access based on various settings to manage and secure access to your applications. Well, the Conditional Access experience has been updated and is currently in preview (you can opt-in/opt-out at any time). You can start experimenting the new experience by

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Exchange Online – New support for OAuth authentication for SMTP, IMAP and POP

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If you are working with Exchange Online, chances are you have some components in your environment (applications, network devices…) which need to access mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online. Well, until now the only way for most of these components was to use POP/IMAP/SMTP connections; which we all know is not the most secure protocols. Good

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Azure AD – Delegate user management with My Staff (preview)

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Microsoft is providing easier way to manage user accounts without the need of a support call to your helpdesk. With My Staff, you can delegate some level of user management tasks to a delegated authority, like a manager or team leaser. This will help end-users stuck accessing their applications because they forgot their credentials (don’t

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Azure AD – You can now authenticate with text message (preview)

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As you know, Microsoft has embarked to a password-less journey by providing more secure authentication process with Windows Hello or FIDO2 security key. Well, the journey is continuing with a new way to authenticate with text messages. NOTE first, an important disclaimer as this is an early preview, there are some limitations: SMS-based authentication isn’t

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Azure AD – You can now validate your dynamic group membership

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As you know you can create dynamic group membership in Azure Active Directory to automatically add/remove group members (either users or devices) based on rules. Sometime you may not be totally sure about the result and it is frustrating to have to wait before being able to validate it. Well, good news, you can now

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Azure AD – You can now manage the Azure AD Administrative Units using the portal

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You may already know this Azure AD feature, in preview for quite some time already, called Administrative Units (AUs). This feature allows you to create a container to store Azure resources which then can be used to delegate administrative tasks, during this preview period this can contain only users and groups and is only manageable

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Azure AD Connect – Getting stopped-server-down error when importing from Azure AD

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Just had a weird issue with Azure AD Connect (the directory synchronization tool from Microsoft to sync from your Active Directory to Azure Active Directory) where we were getting the error “stopped-server-down” during the Delta Import step from Azure Active Directory during a synchronization. Everything else was working perfectly fine (password sync, password write-back, sync

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Azure AD – Password less with FIDO2 now in preview for hybrid deployments

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As you may be already aware, support for password less with FIDO2 keys has been in preview for quite some time already for Azure AD Joined devices and browser sign-ins (see https://t.co/6HfQaQrsuR). Well, good news as you can now also use FIDO2 keys to authenticate against Azure AD Hybrid joined device – aka Windows 10

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