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HOWTO: Disable Unnecessary Services and Scheduled Tasks on Windows Servers...
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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Managing Active Directory Time Synchronization on VMware vSphere
One of the hardest things to get right with virtual Domain Controllers is the time hierarchy in Active Directory. Recommended practices from Microsoft have been all over the place, but seem to have...
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HOWTO Enforce Azure AD Connect to use TLS 1.2 only
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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HOWTO: Disable weak protocols, cipher suites and hashing algorithms on Web...
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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HOWTO: Disable unnecessary AD FS endpoints
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory for July 2019
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its...
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Replication considerations for Domain Controllers running on VMware vSphere
Active Directory utilizes a multi-master replication model. It’s great that each Domain Controller provides read and write access to the Active Directory database, but it comes with a big drawback:...
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HOWTO: Enable Auditing and Logging for AD FS Servers and the AD FS Farm
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards with VM-GenerationID on VMware...
Arriving at the fifth part of this series on Virtualizing Domain Controllers on vSphere, I managed to gather some feedback on these blogposts. One question that emerged after writing the last blogpost...
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HOWTO: Install VASCO’s DIGIPASS Authentication for AD FS
Today, I had the pleasure of installing and configuring OneSpan’s (formerly Vasco’s) DIGIPASS Authentication for Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Microsoft Docs offers links to...
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KnowledgeBase: Azure AD Connect version 1.3.20.0 and up enables Auto Upgrades...
Organizations, leveraging Azure AD Connect Staging Mode for release management, might find themselves with automatically upgrading Azure AD Connect installations after the initial upgrade to Azure AD...
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Using Azure AD’s Dynamic Memberships for Groups to Assign Mutually Exclusive...
Azure AD’s Dynamic Memberships for Groups and Assigning Licenses to Groups features can be used to circumvent the overlap that might occur when user accounts are assigned both an Azure AD P1 and Azure...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory for August 2019
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its...
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HOWTO: Handle Time synchronization on non-domain-joined Web Application Proxies
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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I’m presenting three Webinars with Netwrix focusing on the best recipes from...
On September 24th, 25th and 26th, I’ll present three 1-hour webinars with Netwrix. Tune in to get the best in Active Directory security, Hybrid Identity and Azure AD Hardening demo’ed! Tip! These...
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On-premises Microsoft Identity-related updates and fixes for June 2019
Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates. These are the...
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On-premises Microsoft Identity-related updates and fixes for July 2019
Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates. These are the...
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I’m co-presenting at WAZUG NL 60
On Thursday evening October 3rd, 2019, I’ll deliver a 55-minute presentation together with Raymond Comvalius for the Dutch Windows Azure User Group (WAZUG) on Password-less authentication....
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HOWTO: Handle Windows Activation on non-domain-joined Web Application Proxies
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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On-premises Microsoft Identity-related updates and fixes for August 2019
Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates. These are the...
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