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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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Azure AD – You can now create conditional access policies based on templates (preview)

As you know you can secure access to your resources using Azure AD Conditional Access policies. Well, good news, it is now going to be easier to create Conditional Access policies thanks to the use of templates. To create Conditional Access policy using templates, connect to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) to access the Azure

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Azure AD – New security features are now available for Azure MFA

As you know, you can secure access to your resources using Azure AD MFA and the Microsoft Authenticator application. Over the time, Azure AD MFA has been evolving to provide more features such as different authentication methods (like FIDO keys) or helping to start the password-less journey. Well, there have been several new features being

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Security – You can now change your password and update your security details directly from the Microsoft Authenticator app

As you already know the Microsoft Authenticator application has been primarily used for multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the time the Authenticator app has evolved to allow you save your passwords, forms information or even deliver a password-less experience during authentication. Well, you can now also use the Authenticator to change your password. To do so,

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Azure AD – You can now have insights on your Conditional Access policies

If you use any Microsoft cloud solution, you are also using Azure Active Directory to manage users, groups and devices. If you use Azure AD, you may also have implemented Conditional Access policies to protect and secure access to your data. Well, good news as now you can also get insights and reports on your

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Azure AD – The Azure AD Connect version 1.x will be retired in August 2022

If you still have on-premises Active Directory you probably are synching your directory with Azure AD using the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. As you may be already aware, there is now 2 versions of Azure AD Connect: 1.x and 2.x The 1.x version is some sort of legacy version allowing customer still running

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