By now, you should already know that Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is the directory synchronization tool used to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory identities to Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, AAD Connect just got an upgrade (version 1.5.30.0) which support the new Azure AD Connect sync V2 endpoint API (currently in preview – […]
As you know, Azure AD allows you and your end-users to invite external people to access resources and applications (the so called Guest) account but this required you had a Microsoft identity. After allowing the use of one-time password authentication and guest access for Google account, you can now extend guest access to any identity
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Announced at the Build 2020 online conference, Microsoft Partners developing application for Azure AD can now set them as verified. This apply for Microsoft Partners as you required to define your MPN (Microsoft Partner Network) ID, but as you can register for free as a Microsoft Partners you can also register your own organization to
After introducing the user consent admin workflow (see https://t.co/A9bFP2HCec) in November last year, Microsoft has introduced new settings for User Consent. These new settings allows you to define for which type of application end-user can consent permissions as well as how group owner can define the user consent settings for the applications they own. These
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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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As you know, you can easily view sign-ins activities for a user in Azure AD, covering application accessed, device, location and more importantly conditional access policies applied. These details are useful for troubleshooting application access issues. Well good news, you can now also get the details of the Conditional Access policies applied during a sign-in
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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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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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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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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