Goodbye 2019! As we say goodbye to yet another calendar year, we’re sharing our achievements for the past year. Pageviews and visits Throughout 2019, the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs served seven million pages. To be exact: we saw 7,377,049 pageviews. From a visitor point of view, this results in the following diagram: New bloggers In … Continue reading "The DirTeam.com/ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2019"
Month: December 2019
2019 in Review
It’s that time of the year again. While businesses are finishing off 2019 and people start to reminisce of all the good, the bad and the ugly. This year, I’ll join the people who look back at another trip around our sun on our beautiful planet Earth. Let’s look back! January 2019 The year usually … Continue reading "2019 in Review"
HOWTO: Change the Security Response Headers on AD FS
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 Hardening Hybrid Identity, we’re looking at hardening these implementations, using recommended practices. In this part of the series, we’ll look at the security headers for AD FS implementations. Note: This … Continue reading "HOWTO: Change the Security Response Headers on AD FS"
IPv6 is back!
For a significant amount of time, the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs have operated without IPv6. We changed this important omission over the past weekend. 2010 – 2016 On November 24, 2010, we announced the availability of IPv6 for the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs. At the time, this required serious work from the IaaS engineers at … Continue reading "IPv6 is back!"
HOWTO: Enable Azure Multi-factor Authentication on AD FS
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 Hardening Hybrid Identity, we’re looking at hardening these implementations, using recommended practices. In this part of the series, we’ll add an additional layer of information security to authentications that are … Continue reading "HOWTO: Enable Azure Multi-factor Authentication on AD FS"
What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 2019
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 Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for November 2019: What’s Planned Support for the SameSite attribute and … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 2019"
Pictures of the 2019 European SharePoint Conference
Last week, I delivered two sessions at the European SharePoint Conference in Prague. After a day of consulting on Tuesday December 3rd at one of my long-term customers, I traveled to Schiphol airport. My choice to not park at the airport anymore, led me to the parking lot near the train station in Nieuw Vennep. … Continue reading "Pictures of the 2019 European SharePoint Conference"
Azure AD Connect version 1.4.38.0 offers some bug fixes
It’s time for a new version of Azure AD Connect to incorporate Microsoft’s lessons learned and distribute the fixes Microsoft made to the larger public. Last Friday, Microsoft released the fourth version in the 1.4 branch of Azure AD Connect: v1.4.38.0. Azure AD Connect is Microsoft’s free Hybrid Identity bridge product to synchronize objects and … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect version 1.4.38.0 offers some bug fixes"
On-premises Identity updates & fixes for November 2019
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 updates and fixes we saw for November 2019: Windows Server 2016 We observed the following updates for Windows Server 2016: KB4525236 November 12, 2019 The … Continue reading "On-premises Identity updates & fixes for November 2019"
A new Identity and Security MVP! (Huy Kha)
On December 1st, 2019, Huy Kha was awarded with the 2020-2021 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Enterprise Mobility with a specialization in Identity and Securty. The team behind the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org weblogs would like to congratulate him with this achievement and welcome him to the select group of Enterprise Mobility MVPs. About … Continue reading "A new Identity and Security MVP! (Huy Kha)"