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Do you know all the objects, attributes and configured settings in your Azure...
The role of Azure Active Directory in an Hybrid Identity environment seems hard to understand. Azure AD is not a 100% slave to Active Directory. There are objects and attributes in Azure AD that have...
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Pictures of VMware VMworld US 2018
Last week, I delivered three sessions at VMware’s VMworld US 2018 event in Las Vegas. As I was scheduled to present a full-day workshop on Sunday August 26th, I decided to fly in on Friday, so I’d...
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Pictures of our Security session at Graafschap College
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Raymond Comvalius and I were scheduled for an ‘Inspire Me’ session at Graafschap College last week. Our challenge was to inspire their High School students in...
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I’m a Microsoft Ignite 2018 Featured Speaker
After delivering sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando and at the Amsterdam Tech Summit, I was invited as a featured speaker for Microsoft Ignite 2018. It’s an honor to have my face and profile...
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Identity-related sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando
Microsoft Ignite 2018 North America in Orlando is only a few weeks away and many of us have begun filling their session builder with interesting sessions, corresponding to their interests and...
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Assessing the impact that the new Baseline Policy for Admins in Azure AD...
Microsoft is working hard to further harden Azure Active Directory tenants, so the roughly 13 million organization depending on it, don’t get disappointed by Azure AD-based security breaches and don’t...
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Azure AD Connect v1.1.882.0 fixes an issue with its ADSync Database in SQL...
Last week, Microsoft released a new version of Azure AD Connect, its free Hybrid Identity bridge product to synchronize objects and their attributes from on-premises Active Directory Domain Services...
View ArticleThe video for ‘Virtualizing Active Directory the Right Way’ from VMware’s...
In August, Matt Liebowitz and I presented a 60-minute breakout session during VMware’s VMworld US 2018 event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our presentation and demos were...
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Windows Server 2016’s July 2018 Quality Update brings four Active Directory...
Windows Server 2016’s July 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2395, offers four fixes for issues you might be experiencing on your Windows Server 2016-based Active...
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Windows Server 2016’s August 2018 Quality Update brings several Active...
Windows Server 2016’s July 2018’s Cumulative Quality Update, bringing the OS version to 14393.2457, offers a total of four fixes for issues you might be experiencing on your Windows Server 2016-based...
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We’re organizing the Event of the Year with the KNVI SIG IT Infra
Raymond, Erwin, Martijn, Tom and I have been plotting for quite some time to organize a yearly Dutch event. We want to share the latest in our industry, without the marketing talk and without the...
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I’m staffing a Community Booth at two Community Social events at Microsoft...
Community Central at Microsoft Ignite is bigger, better and stronger, compared to last year’s Ignite, and I’m proud to share that I’m part of it! Besides my two theater sessions on Identity and Access...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory for September 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...
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Passing Microsoft Exam 70-742: Identity with Windows Server 2016
There is a good and free way to prepare for Microsoft exam 70-742: Identity with Windows Server 2016. In the past years, I conducted webinars that can serve as a primer on Active Directory in terms of...
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Pictures of Microsoft Ignite 2018
Last week, I was part of Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Both as a speaker and a community booth host, I added to Microsoft’s biggest annual technology event targeted at IT Professionals. I...
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Pictures of the KNVI IT Infra Day of the Year 2018 ‘Roast the Cloud’
On Wednesday October 3rd, The KNVI SIG IT Infra organized its yearly event. From 9AM onwards, IT Professionals were welcome at the Postillion Hotel in Bunnik, the Netherlands for a day filled with...
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I’m featuring on Paramount Defenses’ list of Notable Names in the AD and AD...
Last week I received a message from Sanjay Tandon from Paramount Defenses. In his message, he notified me of my name being added to the list of notable names in the Active Directory (AD) / AD security...
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I’m speaking at Microsoft Sinergija 18
I received a message from Microsoft Serbia on an opportunity to speak at its yearly Sinergija event at the Crowne Plaza hotel and conference center in Belgrade on October 24th and October 25th 2018;...
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The video and slides for my Ignite session ‘THR2214 Hardening your Azure...
In this blogpost, let’s look back at my first theater session. I presented the session ‘THR2214 Hardening your Azure Active Directory tenant’ on Monday evening September 24th between 6:25 PM and 6:45...
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The video and slides for my Ignite session ‘THR2148 Experiences with going...
In this blogpost, let’s look back at my second theater session. I presented the session ‘THR2148 Experiences with going password-less’ on Thursday afternoon September 27th between 2:50 PM and 3:10 PM....
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