What’s New in Identity from Microsoft Inspire 2020
Microsoft Inspire is Microsoft’s annual event where it kicks off its fiscal year with its partner community. Inspire is Microsoft’s way to explain what’s coming in the year ahead and work together to...
View ArticleHOWTO: Enable Extended Protection for Authentication on the SQL 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...
View ArticleHOWTO: Determine your Azure AD tenant’s object limit and count
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity as a Service platform. It is a global service, used by millions of organizations worldwide. To make the service useable for all of these organizations,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Windows 10!
On July 29th, 2015, Microsoft made Windows 10 generally available to people worldwide. Today, we celebrate Windows 10’s 5th anniversary! At its release, Windows 10 offered many new features, including...
View ArticleTODO: Change apps, scripts, alerts and policies to cover the new role names...
Starting today, Microsoft is making changes to resolve the inconsistent naming of built-in role names between the Microsoft 365 admins center, the Azure AD portal and the Microsoft Graph API. In...
View ArticleThe video of my Netwrix webinar on migrating to the Cloud is now available
Yesterday, I presented a 75-minute session on the three approaches to migrating to the cloud, together with Netwrix’ Russel McDermott. Now, a mere working day after the webinar, the Netwrix team has...
View ArticleAzure AD Connect version 1.5.45.0 is a bug fix release
Last week, a new version of Azure AD Connect was released: version 1.5.45.0. This version is a bug fix release. After every fresh major release of Azure AD Connect by Microsoft, several smaller hotfix...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Azure Active Directory in July 2020
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...
View ArticleOn-premises Identity updates & fixes for July 2020
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...
View ArticleHOWTO: Repurpose an Azure AD-joined device in an organization without Intune
Many organizations are adopting Azure AD Join as the mechanism to create a trust relationship between their Windows 10-based devices and their Identity solution. In the obligatory...
View ArticleKnowledgebase: You experience Warnings with EventID 5829 on Domain Controllers
In Microsoft-oriented networking infrastructures, your Active Directory Domain Controllers may suddenly experience high number of Warning events in the System log in Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) with...
View ArticleHOWTO: Tell if Azure AD Connect is using the v2 Endpoint
Azure AD Connect is Microsoft’s free tool to synchronize objects and their attributes from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) implementations to Azure Active Directory tenants. Many millions of...
View ArticleI’ve joined the Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast
The 2020 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIPConf) was originally planned for April 2020. As New York and other cities around the globe helped us combat the COVID-19 pandemic, this was not a...
View ArticlevSphere 7’s vMotion interface notifies for time differences between vSphere...
In the series Virtualizing Domain Controllers on vSphere, I explained the importance of proper time synchronization for virtualized Active Directory Domain Controllers and how to keep these Domain...
View ArticleGetting to know the devices that people in your organization use App...
On this blog, and in several other places, I’ve shared my experiences with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication. In the early days of Azure MFA, a lot of organizations, a lot of client applications and a...
View ArticleKnowledgeBase: You receive “the mS-DS-ConsistencyGuid attribute is already in...
In environments with multiple Azure AD Connect installations, sometimes, you experience unexpected behavior. For instance, when you want to change the source anchor from objectGUID to...
View ArticleTen things you need to know about Assigning Groups to Azure AD Roles
Last week, Alex Simons announced on behalf of his team the Public Preview of assigning groups to Azure AD roles with a blogpost titled Assigning groups to Azure AD roles is now in public preview! on...
View ArticleWindows Server vNext Preview build 20201 is now available
Microsoft is working on the next version of Windows Server, beyond Windows Server 2019. Now, we can all enjoy the first preview version of what’s to come. About Windows Server vNext build 20201.1000...
View ArticleAzure Multi-Factor Authentication Server 8.0.5.1 is here
Roughly 6 months ago, on February 26th, 2020, we saw the release of Microsoft Multi-factor Authentication Server (MFA Server) version 8.0.4. Now it’s time for an update to Microsoft’s product that...
View ArticleVeeam Backup and Replication version 10a adds support for the latest technology
Two weeks ago, we saw the release of Veeam Backup and Replication version 10a. Veeam Backup & Replication 10a is the newer build of version 10. This update also includes all fixes from v10...
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