This morning, I received a notice of a new version of Microsoft’s on-premises Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server product. According to the release notes, this version includes a new feature, logging improvements and a bug fix that might plague your Azure Multi-Factor Authentication implementation. What’s New Version 7.2.0.1 of the Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server adds […]
I’m speaking at the 2017 Nordic Infrastructure Conference
After a year of absence, Raymond Comvalius and I have been invited back to the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NICConf). About the Nordic Infrastructure Conference The Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NICConf) provides IT and business professionals with unmissable networking and learning experiences from the leading Global IT experts. The event has a strong practical educational focus […]
Getting to know the colleagues using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
On this blog, and in several other places, I’ve shared my experiences with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication. While this information meanly focuses on the on-premises Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server, I did encounter the occasional implementation of the cloud-based Azure Multi-Factor Authentication. For one such implementation, I had the pleasure of migrating it from the cloud to […]
Pictures of the iSense Hybrid Identity night
Last Thursday evening, I delivered two one-hour presentations for the Hybrid Identity evening, hosted by iSense. After my Thursday day-to-day activities in The Hague, I drove to Gouda. Pretty fast, the satnav pointed me to smaller roads to avoid heavy traffic on the A12 highway, making me arrive on time (meaning an hour early). I […]
Forcing the use of a specific Azure Multi-Factor Authentication method for a Relying Party Trust in AD FS
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) in combination with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Server work together when you install and configure the Azure MFA Adapter for AD FS. Now, per Relying Party Trust (RPT) in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), you might want to force the use of a specific Azure Multi-Factor Authentication method. […]
Prompting colleagues for their Multi-Factor Authentication method in AD FS
Since version 7 of the on-premises Azure MFA Server, a new setting is available that might make sense in your Hybrid Identity environment when using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), called Prompt for user’s method. According to the Azure MFA Server 7.1.2.1 Release Notes, this feature is available since version 7.0.0.9. In the release […]
Pictures of our Hybrid Identity session at Graafschap College
As I mentioned last week, Raymond Comvalius and I were scheduled for an ‘Inspire Me’ session at Graafschap College in Doetinchem last Friday. Our challenge was to inspire 50 High School students in their final year for their future as systems administrators. For me, last Friday was a day I could sleep late. While normally […]
Only Three Months of Support remain for DirSync and Azure AD Sync
As I wrote earlier, Microsoft ends support for implementations using the stand-alone Azure AD Sync tool and implementations of DirSync per April 13, 2017. As I write this, there is a mere three months left to take care of your migration to a recent version of Azure AD Connect and the implementation of lifecycle management […]
I’m presenting an Hybrid Identity Evening at iSense ICT Professionals
Next week, on Thursday January 19, 2017, I’m delivering an entire evening dedicated to Active Directory and Hybrid Identity at iSense ICT Professionals’ Gouda Headquarters. About iSense ICT Professionals iSense ICT Professionals is a Dutch ICT company, specialized in staffing ICT Professionals. Their main focus is on systems management, database administration, business analysis and […]
From the field: Colleagues in specific group encounter error “AADSTS50107 Requested federation realm object does not exist.”
Sometimes, you hit error messages that are just too vague to troubleshoot. I like these kinds of situations. This particular one is especially fun, because it requires some intermediate knowledge of Active Directory Federation Services in Hybrid Identity environments. My favorite subject. The situation Single Sign-On (SSO) for organizations comes in many shapes and […]