Ten things you need to know about Pass-through Authentication

For Azure AD, Microsoft offers and recommends to use Pass-through Authentication (PTA) as the authentication method. This method is then used to authenticate to applications, services and systems connected to Azure AD, like Office 365, Intune and Power BI. However, there are a couple of things you should know:   Only outbound connections When using … Continue reading "Ten things you need to know about Pass-through Authentication"

What’s New in Azure Active Directory for January 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 new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for January 2019:   What’s New Active Directory B2B collaboration using one-time passcode … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for January 2019"

What’s New in Azure Active Directory for December 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 Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for December 2018:    What’s New Administrators can require users to accept a … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for December 2018"

Azure AD Connect version 1.2.70.0 updates the non-standard connectors

Yesterday, 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 (AD DS) environments and LDAP v3-compatible directories to Azure Active Directory. What’s Fixed There is only one fix in version 1.2.70.0. This build updates the non-standard connectors … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect version 1.2.70.0 updates the non-standard connectors"

Azure AD Connect v1.2.69.0 fixes an issue with Device Write-Back

Late 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 (AD DS) environments and LDAP v3-compatible directories to Azure Active Directory.      What’s Fixed There is only one fix in version 1.2.69.0. This hotfix build … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect v1.2.69.0 fixes an issue with Device Write-Back"

What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 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 Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for November 2018:      What’s New Azure AD Cloud Device Administrator role (Public … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 2018"

Azure AD Connect v1.2.68.0 fixes an issue with the MSOnline PowerShell Module

Late 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 (AD DS) environments and LDAP v3-compatible directories to Azure Active Directory.   What’s Fixed There is only one fix in version 1.2.68.0. This hotfix build … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect v1.2.68.0 fixes an issue with the MSOnline PowerShell Module"

Creating a clean MyApps and Office Portal Experience

As we help organizations embrace Hybrid Identity, we often encounter politics or standards that dictate that we take baby steps. I fully agree with taking the smallest steps possible, for it keeps roll-back steps small and useful, too. However, Azure Active Directory, currently, is not a cloud service you can enable without some default functionality. … Continue reading "Creating a clean MyApps and Office Portal Experience"

Azure AD Connect v1.2.67.0 fixes an issue with Password Writeback

Earlier this 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 (AD DS) environments and LDAP v3-compatible directories to Azure Active Directory.   What’s Fixed There is only one fix in version 1.2.67.0. This hotfix build … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect v1.2.67.0 fixes an issue with Password Writeback"

Azure AD Connect moves to TLS 1.2-only with version 1.2.65.0

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 (AD DS) environments and LDAP v3-compatible directories to Azure Active Directory.           What’s New Write-back of msExchUcVoicemailSettings The Azure AD Connect team changed the functionality of … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect moves to TLS 1.2-only with version 1.2.65.0"