The wonderful people at Netwrix have asked me to join their panel discussion on Microsoft Copilot readiness. In this online webinar we plan to discuss data discovery, data classification and access control with the help of Artificial Intelligence. About the webinar With Microsoft 365 services like SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive generating and storing vast … Continue reading "Get all your Microsoft Copilot data readiness questions answered by Netwrix and me in our upcoming panel discussion"
Author: Sander Berkouwer
Sander Berkouwer is the author of the Active Directory Administration Cookbook, speaker and blogger at DirTeam.com and ServerCore.net. He is awarded Microsoft MVP, Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert.
Since 2009, Microsoft has awarded Sander with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Since 2016, Veeam has awarded Sander with the Veeam Vanguard award.
What’s New in Entra ID in March 2025
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD 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 Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for March 2025: What’s Planned … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in March 2025"
Join Raymond and me at the RDW Techday!
As hosts of the IT Bros podcast, Raymond Comvalius and I have interesting discussions with many of the listeners that we meet outside of our recording studio. When Edmond, one of our devoted listeners, asked us to divulge on authentication methods and Microsoft accounts vs work or school accounts, the idea to speak on the … Continue reading "Join Raymond and me at the RDW Techday!"
Join Tomislav Fuckar, the Bosnian Microsoft Community and me in Konjic!
I’m happy to announce that I will co-present a technical session with Tomislav Fuckar at the Microsoft Community BiH Konferencia in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzogivina. When Tomislav Fučkar asked me how to get started presenting at events like this one, I offered him to co-present one of the sessions that I was preparing for this … Continue reading "Join Tomislav Fuckar, the Bosnian Microsoft Community and me in Konjic!"
VMware Tools v 12.5.1 fixes an authentication bypass vulnerability (VMSA-2025-0005, CVE-2025-22230, CVSv3 7.8)
This week, VMware introduced a new version of its VMware Tools for Windows. The reason for this release is an authentication bypass vulnerability. About VMware Tools VMware Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guest Operating Systems. … Continue reading "VMware Tools v 12.5.1 fixes an authentication bypass vulnerability (VMSA-2025-0005, CVE-2025-22230, CVSv3 7.8)"
From the field: Three gotchas when migrating applications from AD FS to Entra
As a professional, I like to prepare my projects to avoid any hick-ups during stressful moments. From reading up on the relevant Microsoft Docs, implementing a staging environment to define run and rollback changes to triple-checking my assumptions. Recently, I have been involved in several projects for decommissioning Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Staged … Continue reading "From the field: Three gotchas when migrating applications from AD FS to Entra"
What’s New in Entra ID in February 2025
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD 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 Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for February 2025: Whats … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in February 2025"
Happy 25th Birthday, Active Directory!
Today, The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs are celebrating the 25-year anniversary of Active Directory Domain Services as a released product. Windows 2000 Server The introduction of Active Directory to the world was part of the release of Windows 2000 Server on February 17, 2000.
How to get the redirected URI for a go.microsoft.com/fwlink address
In today’s Zero Trust networking scenarios, many organizations opt to only allow specific web locations to be accessible to their systems. This is problematic with addresses that act as redirect locations to actual web locations, because the actual web location needs to be allowlisted in the firewall to be accessible. Common scenarios A common … Continue reading "How to get the redirected URI for a go.microsoft.com/fwlink address"
From the field: You receive error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in
Sometimes, you hit error messages that are just too vague to troubleshoot. I like these kinds of situations. I’ve hit errors before and their origins were always interesting. Let’s see what’s happening today causing the error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in. The situation An organization is … Continue reading "From the field: You receive error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in"