What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 2017
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 ArticleAzure AD Connect version 1.1.654.0 addresses a critical security vulnerability
It feels like only a couple of months ago, but actually only half a year ago, Microsoft released a version of Azure AD Connect that fixed a critical security vulnerability related to password resets....
View ArticleUsing Azure AD Connect with a gMSA
Since version 1.1.443.0, you can use Azure AD Connect with a group Managed Service Account (gMSA) as its service account. I thought it was time to show you how to configure Azure AD Connect with a...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Azure Active Directory for December 2017
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 ArticleUse your F5 BIG-IP Appliance as Full-Fledged AD FS Web Application Proxy
With the release of version 13.1 of its BIG-IP software, F5 Networks enables you to make your F5 BIG-IP series appliances and F5 Virtual Edition (VE) appliances to act as ful-fledged Web Application...
View ArticleI’m co-presenting a second webinar on tracking changes in Hybrid Identity
On Wednesday January 24, 2018 I’m co-presenting a webinar on tracking changes in Hybrid Identity environments, based on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Azure AD. The session is sponsored...
View ArticleInstalling Multi-Factor Authentication Server with the new Portal Experience
Per this week, Azure Active Directory is no longer available in the ‘Old’ Portal experience. Previously, I’ve shared with you how to download, install and configure Microsoft’s on-premises...
View ArticleI’m speaking at NIC Future Edition
For its seventh edition, the theme for the annual Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NICConf) is Future Edition. Raymond Comvalius and I are delivering sessions again. It’s our fourth edition of this...
View ArticlePerforming a simple Hybrid Identity implementation with AD FS on-premises
In this blogpost, I’ll explain how to install and configure Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Azure AD Connect to achieve Hybrid Identity with Azure Active Directory, based on Windows...
View ArticleConfiguring Geo-Redundancy for AD FS on-premises with Azure Traffic Manager
Last week, I showed you how to perform a simple Hybrid Identity implementation with AD FS on-premises. While this scenario is easy and fast to deploy, it also has a couple of downsides. One of them is...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Azure Active Directory for January 2018
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 ArticlePictures of NIC Future Edition
Last week, Crayon organized the 7th Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC), labeled the Future Edition. Raymond Comvalius and I presented two sessions. In this blogpost I share our pictures and most...
View ArticleConfiguring the Azure AD Connect Health Agent for AD FS on Server Core
When you get serious about security in Hybrid Identity implementations, you would opt to implement AD FS servers and Web Application Proxies as Server Core installations. However, this poses a slight...
View ArticleHybrid Identity features per Active Directory Domain Services Domain...
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. These components have...
View ArticleIn-place upgrading an Active Directory Domain Controller to Windows Server...
Last week, Microsoft announced the latest Windows Server Insider Preview build, nicknamed Build 17093, referencing its 10.0.17093.1000 version number. This Windows Server version was released to...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Azure Active Directory for February 2018
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 ArticleWindows Server 2016’s January 2018 Quality Update fixes several AD CS issues
Windows Server 2016’s January 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2034, offers several fixes for Certification Authorities (CAs) running Active Directory Certificate...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016’s January 2018 Quality Update fixes several AD FS issues
Windows Server 2016’s January 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2034, offers several fixes for Secure Token Servers (STSs) running Active Directory Federation Services...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016’s February 2018 Quality Update fixes empty Attribute...
Windows Server 2016’s February 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2097, offers a fix you might be experiencing with empty values for Attribute in EventID 5136 for...
View ArticleWindows Server 2016’s February 2018 Quality Update comes highly recommended...
Windows Server 2016’s February 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2097, offers several fixes for Secure Token Servers (STSs) running Active Directory Federation...
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