One of Azure’s oldest Identity-related services, Azure’s Access Control Service (ACS) will cease to exist soon. There are replacements. If your organization is still using ACS, you will need to migrate this functionality to Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, AD FS and/or 3rd party solutions. About the Access Control Service The Microsoft Azure … Continue reading "Azure’s Access Control Service is retiring in three months time"
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Azure Active Directory
What’s New in Azure Active Directory for July 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 July 2018: What’s New Azure AD Activity Logs are now available … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for July 2018"
Azure AD Connect version 1.1.880.0 is now available
Last Friday, Microsoft released Azure AD Connect version 1.1.880.0. This release of Microsoft’s 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 SQL Deadlock Issue The Azure AD Connect team fixed a bug … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect version 1.1.880.0 is now available"
What’s New in Azure Active Directory for June 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 functionality for Azure Active Directory for June 2018: What’s Planned Security fix to the delegated authorization flow for apps … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for June 2018"
Configuring Account Lockout throughout a Hybrid Identity Environment
Denial of Service attacks on identity and access systems are common place. When you think you’re done when you’ve covered all the bases with account lock-out in your on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environment, you’re wrong. Hybrid Identity requires more effort and Microsoft only made the tools you need generally available this month. … Continue reading "Configuring Account Lockout throughout a Hybrid Identity Environment"
KnowledgeBase: High CPU Usage for Azure AD Connect Health Sync Monitor with .NET Framework 4.7.2 Installed
Today, there is an issue in a component of Azure AD Connect version 1.1.819.0, Microsoft free Hybrid Identity bridge product, that enables you to synchronize objects and their attributes between your on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environment(s) and Azure Active Directory. The Azure AD Connect Health Sync Monitor Service consumes lots of CPU. … Continue reading "KnowledgeBase: High CPU Usage for Azure AD Connect Health Sync Monitor with .NET Framework 4.7.2 Installed"
What’s New in Azure Active Directory for May 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 functionality for Azure Active Directory for May 2018: What’s New Graph APIs for administrative scenarios for Terms of use … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for May 2018"
Self-Service leaving a lingering Azure AD tenant as an admin
Have you been invited to someone’s Azure tenant as an admin? Did you do the work and left, but are you still seeing the tenant? Or did you quit, only to find the tenant still staring at you in the Azure portal? Can’t be invited to Azure tenants, because you’re already invited to about 20 … Continue reading "Self-Service leaving a lingering Azure AD tenant as an admin"
Azure AD Connect version 1.1.819.0 offer numerous fixes and PingFederate support
Last week, Microsoft released Azure AD Connect version 1.1.819.0. This release of Microsoft’s free Hybrid Identity bridge product to synchronize objects and their attributes from on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environments to Azure Active Directory. What’s Fixed SQL Server Express 2012 Service Pack 4 This release updates the SQL Server Express installation to … Continue reading "Azure AD Connect version 1.1.819.0 offer numerous fixes and PingFederate support"
What’s New in Azure Active Directory for April 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 functionality for Azure Active Directory for April 2018: What’s New New federated apps available in Azure AD App gallery Service … Continue reading "What’s New in Azure Active Directory for April 2018"