Identity Management

Microsoft has announced the public preview of cross-tenant collaboration settings in its Azure Active Directory service. The new feature enables IT admins to manage how users can securely collaborate with external partners and in other Azure Active Directory organizations. The ability to configure cross-tenant access settings was one of the top requested features from Azure…

Learn all there is to know about how Active Directory (AD) replication works. This guide covers the basics of how domain controllers (DCs) replicate all of your user accounts, passwords, computers, and other objects in your environment. Learn about how sites define the logical layout of your network and how the tools and features in…

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates for several Windows Server configurations to fix an Active Directory issue related to Microsoft .NET Framework. The company explained on the Windows health dashboard that the bug surfaced following the release of January 2022 Patch Tuesday updates (via Bleeping Computer).  “After installing updates released January 11, 2022 or later,…

Microsoft has warned users about a new multi-phase campaign targeting enterprise customers. The Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team detailed its findings on its Security blog, which indicates that these phishing attacks mainly target organizations that haven’t enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA). As the name suggests, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an authentication technique that requires two…

Domain controllers (DCs) are at the heart of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the directory service that provides authentication, authorization, and password management for Microsoft Windows networks. Find out here why they’re so important and what they do. What does a domain controller do? A domain controller (DC) is a server on your network that manages access for users, computers, servers, etc. centrally. It uses…

Microsoft unveiled a new Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) security solution for its Azure AD Conditional Access service back in October 2020. The company has recently announced that the CAE feature is generally available for enterprise customers. With this new service, Azure Active Directory customers can securely revoke an access token and force a re-authentication of…

Microsoft recently made changes to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to mitigate an issue where private key data stored in an Azure AD application or service principal could be read in clear text. Some Azure services were incorrectly storing private key data in Azure AD in the keyCredentials property when creating applications for customers. Microsoft…

Azure AD Connect is a free tool from Microsoft that’s used for synchronizing objects between on-premises Windows Server Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory. Microsoft announced in August the availability of Azure AD Connect V2.0. And in this article, I’m going to discuss the major changes in this new release. Here are the major…

It was more than a year ago that Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Teams functionality to the consumer. Starting today, several features are now generally available as the company hopes to persuade you to ditch whatever it is you are using today, for Teams. By enabling ‘personal’ features in Teams, Microsoft’s goal is to make…

Looking to install Active Directory in Windows Server 2019? Here’s how to accomplish that task with PowerShell.