A new version (2.1.15.0) of the directory synchronization tool – Azure AD Connect – has been released. You need to urgently update your existing AAD Connect instance as this new version fixes a security vulnerability in the Azure AD Connect Admin agent. In addition of this security fix, few new capabilities have been added, such […]
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If you are working in an hybrid environment with Active Directory on-premises being synchronized to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect, you are already probably aware about the group write-back capability which allows you to synchronize back to Active Directory Office 365 groups. Well, this capability has been extended to allow you to also write-back
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A new user overview blade has been made available in Azure AD. This new blade simpler and easier access to the user settings and properties. Please note this new blade can only be accessed from the Azure Active Directory\Users\All users blade; it is not available when accessing directly from the Users section When accessing the
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As you are already probably aware, Azure AD allows you to create users or devices group with dynamic membership. Well, the attributes available for creating a device dynamic group have been extended and now allow you to use: deviceManagementAppId: defines the MDM application ID in Azure AD. If you use Intune, the Azure App ID
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As you may be already aware, Azure AD provides a capability to create dynamic groups of users or devices. Well, good news as now you can also reference other groups to be members of such dynamic group. This feature is currently in preview and there are few limitations: The MemberOf attribute is not yet available
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If you use Microsoft cloud services – either Azure or Office 365 – you know that identity and access management is performed through the use of Azure Active Directory. Over time Azure AD has been improved by adding new capabilities and features to help you manage and secure your identity and access. Well, a new
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If you are working with Microsoft cloud services, you know that identity management, authentication and authorization rely on Azure Active Directory. While Azure AD provides a lot of feature to manage identity and ensure appropriate access control, there was a gap with inactive accounts. Those inactive accounts are account which were once required, either service
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About 2 years ago, Microsoft has introduced administrative units on Azure Active Directory (see https://t.co/hyacW4j9Po for more). Until now, the membership rule for administrative units was only using direct assignment. Well, today you can now use dynamic rule. To be able to do so, you need: at least Azure AD P1 license for each administrators
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As you know Azure AD provides you ways to review and troubleshoot authentication prompts but this is sometime difficult as you may have to deal with multiple reports and/or logs. Well a new workbook called Authentication prompts analysis is now available. It aggregates all logs related to authentication prompts for users and applications, giving you
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As you know, Azure Active Directory is the heart of the Microsoft Cloud services for authentication, authorization and access management controls. Well, sometime it is difficult to keep up with updated (or outdated) best practices and/or recommendations. Well to help keeping up and provide customized recommendation to your own Azure AD tenant a new feature
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