This, week, the Azure AD Connect team made the following announcement on the Azure AD Connect: Version release history page: Starting on November 1st, 2020, we will begin implementing a deprecation process whereby versions of Azure AD Connect that were released more than 18 months ago will be deprecated. At that time we will begin … Continue reading "Deprecation of older Azure AD Connect versions announced for November 1, 2020"
Category: Deployment
Deployment
From the Field: The case of the unreachable forest on a domain-joined Azure AD Connect installation
Troubleshooting stories from the field are the best. That’s why I like writing them down. Although, sometimes they might appear as straight cases of schadenfreude, I feel there are lessons to be learned for anyone, if you’re willing to look closely and listen carefully. Last week I experienced an issue with Azure AD Connect at … Continue reading "From the Field: The case of the unreachable forest on a domain-joined Azure AD Connect installation"
Configuring Geo-Redundancy for AD FS on-premises with Azure Traffic Manager
Last week, I showed you how to perform a simple Hybrid Identity implementation with AD FS on-premises. While this scenario is easy and fast to deploy, it also has a couple of downsides. One of them is the risk of ‘AD FS Unavailability’ and the inability to authenticate to cloud resources when the on-premises environment … Continue reading "Configuring Geo-Redundancy for AD FS on-premises with Azure Traffic Manager"
Performing a simple Hybrid Identity implementation with AD FS on-premises
In this blogpost, I’ll explain how to install and configure Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Azure AD Connect to achieve Hybrid Identity with Azure Active Directory, based on Windows Server 2016. The implementation outlined in this blogpost is relevant for one on-premises datacenter and an Active Directory Domain Services environment, consisting of one … Continue reading "Performing a simple Hybrid Identity implementation with AD FS on-premises"
New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 3: New Upgrade Process
While a lot of lab environments will be set up as I explained in part 2 of this series (with the New Promotion Process), in the real world a lot of Active Directory environments will be upgraded or transitioned, because they’re already equipped with Domain Controllers running a previous version of Windows Server. In this … Continue reading "New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 3: New Upgrade Process"
New features in Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012, Part 2: New Promotion Process
As I’ve mentioned in my overview post, earlier today, one of the new features of Windows Server 2012 is a new Domain Controller Promotion Tool. In this blogpost I’ll dive a little deeper on this statement.