Azure Active Directory

Azure AD – You can now enable certificate-based authentication against Azure AD (preview)

As you may already know, you can use certificate-based authentication whit Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS). Well, good news, you can now also enable certificate-based authentication with Azure AD without the need to deploy a federation service infrastructure. You will still need to have properly deployed and configured your Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which makes […]

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Azure AD – New cross-tenant access (B2B) settings are now available

As you know Azure Active Directory (AAD) provides you with settings to manage B2B (business to business) – also known as cross-tenant or guest – access. Well, these settings have been updated to provide you a more granular control for inbound and outbound access which can then apply at the organization, user, group or application

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Azure AD – A new Azure AD Connect version – 2.0.91 – is now available

A new Azure AD Connect version, 2.0.91, is available for download and install. This is version is not available for auto upgrade. This version updates the version of the Azure AD Connect Health agent to version 3.2.1823.12 to provide compliance with Federal Information Processing Standard (https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-federal-information-processing-standards-fips). You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594.

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Azure AD – Get a dashboard reporting Azure Identities and Role Governance at glance

As you know with Azure AD, you can create and manage Service Principals, delegate administration tasks using administration roles… but this is quite difficult to easily identify the number of Service Principal you have, Service Principals which has or will expire… To help you with that, the Azure AD teams has developed a workbook which

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Azure AD – You can now synch your AD with multiple tenants (preview)

This has been a long awaited capability. As you know until then you were not able to synchronize your Active Directory with multiple Azure AD/Office 365 tenant. Well, this is now possible and supported to do so; meaning you can synchronize your users, groups and contacts from your Active Directory to different tenant (aka duplicating

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Azure AD – A new version of Azure AD Connect is available

UPDATE the version 2.0.88 has introduced a bug which can lead to user objects referencing on-premises shared and resource mailboxes to be deleted. A new version 2.0.89 has been released to fix the issue, please check the version before downloading AAD Connect from Microsoft website. If you have an Active Directory and use Microsoft Cloud

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Azure AD – You can now use Kerberos to authenticate against Azure AD (preview)

As you know you can use either NTLM and/or Kerberos when authenticating against Active Directory and authentication against Azure AD is using OAuth or SAML. Well, you can now also use Kerberos to authenticate against Azure AD, in the current scenario to access Azure File shares configured to use Azure AD authentication. To be able

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Azure AD – You can now define device filters for conditional access

As you know, with Azure AD you can configure Conditional Access policies to protect and secure access to your resources. These policies apply to users, devices and now to service principals too. Well, sometime you may want to have a conditional access policy to apply to specific devices but you can not create a specific

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Azure AD – You can now configure conditional access policies for workloads identities (preview)

As you know, if you have at lease Azure AD P1 license you can configure and use Conditional Access to protect and secure access to your resources. The Conditional Access feature has been evolving a lot over the past few years and policies apply to either users/groups or devices. Now a new feature (in preview)

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Azure AD – You can now create custom security attributes (preview)

If you use a Microsoft Cloud service like Office 365 you already know that identity and authentication are managed by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Azure AD is very similar to Active Directory meaning objects (users, groups or devices) have attributes you can managed using either the Azure AD portal and/or Azure AD PowerShell. Well,

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