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Choosing the right Passwordless sign-in method for your colleagues
Passwordless is Microsoft’s strategy to improve enterprise security and enable end-user convenience at the same time. The era of passwords is slowly coming to an end and Microsoft offers...
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KnowledgeBase: To manage non-domain-joined Web Application Proxies with Azure...
Azure AD Connect is Microsoft's free Hybrid Identity bridge product to synchronize objects and their attributes from on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environments and LDAP...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory in April 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...
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On-premises Microsoft Identity-related updates and fixes for April 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...
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Recordings of the webinars with Netwrix are now available
Last month, on April 22nd, 28th and 30th, I hosted three 60-minute webinars with Netwrix on my three favorite chapters in my Active Directory Administration Cookbook. Over 1800 people have registered...
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TODO: Move from per-user MFA to Conditional Access
One of the remnants of the PhoneFactor infrastructure is an old page that is linked in the Azure Portal. It allows for enforcing multi-factor authentication on a per-user basis. It should not be used...
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Azure AD Connect 1.5.30.0 fixes two issues
After every fresh major release of Azure AD Connect by Microsoft, several smaller hotfix releases update the functionality to prevent issues where administrators are not able to perform certain...
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TODO: Optimize the Azure Multi-factor Authentication methods used throughout...
Multi-factor Authentication will be organizations’ means of authentication verification for a while. After clearing the first hurdles in your organization when implementing multi-factor...
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Twenty Years in IT
Exactly twenty years ago, on May 15th 2000, I started working at Operator Groep Delft. While they weren’t my first employer, it was my first employer in IT. In the past twenty years I’ve developed my...
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Identity-related sessions at Microsoft Build 2020
Microsoft organizes Microsoft Build 2020 as a free digital event between Tuesday May 19th 8AM Pacific Time and Thursday May 21st 8 AM Pacific Time. Microsoft Build is Microsoft’s annual conference...
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HOWTO: Secure VMware Horizon with Azure MFA through its NPS Extension
This week, one of my customers is switching to Azure multi-factor authentication as their only multi-factor authentication solution for their employees. As the organization leverages VMware Horizon,...
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A Recap of Identity-related Announcements from Microsoft Build 2020
Microsoft organized Microsoft Build 2020 as a free digital event between Tuesday May 19th 8AM Pacific Time and Thursday May 21st 8 AM Pacific Time. Microsoft Build is Microsoft’s annual conference...
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HOWTO: Use Azure AD Connect’s 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...
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Five things I wish I knew before ‘Next-Next-Finish’ing my Veeam Backup for...
Veeam Backup for Office 365 is an awesome product with a lot of possibilities and features. Just like Active Directory, it is a product that you can typically ‘next, next, finish’-install in about 10...
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Identity-related Features in Windows 10 version 2004 build 19041
Microsoft has released Windows 10 version 2004 build 19041 (or ‘Windows 10 May 2020 Update’) through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business. It was previously already...
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Protecting virtual Domain Controllers on vSphere with Virtualization-based...
VMware vSphere 6.7 offers the ability to enable virtualization-based security (VBS) for virtual machines. Let’s find out what kind of protection this setting provides, what’s needed to get it going...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory in May 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...
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On-premises Microsoft Identity-related updates and fixes for May 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...
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 v4c build 4.0.1.519 offers support for disabled...
Six weeks ago, we looked at how Veeam Backup for Office 365 works in tenants with multi-factor authentication required for admin roles. With Security Defaults being the norm in newly created Azure AD...
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An overview of Azure AD Connect’s PowerShell Modules and Cmdlets
Azure AD Connect is Microsoft’s free Hybrid Identity bridge product to synchronize objects and their attributes from on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environments and LDAP...
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