Microsoft has launched a new Entra ID license utilization portal in public preview for commercial customers. The long-awaited feature is designed to offer commercial customers insights into premium feature usage for optimizing Entra ID Premium licenses. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service. It allows…
MC709267 – Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to Microsoft Entra ID for the following reasons: As a result, the name will be updated within Microsoft Secure Score. When this will happen:Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out by mid-January 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2024. What you need to do…
MC424414 – Updated February 19, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks will be upgraded to Native Mode to allow users, groups, and content to be compatible with and mapped to their counterparts in Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365. Native Mode also provides…
Microsoft has announced a new strategic partnership with enterprise software giant SAP. The companies are currently working to develop a solution that will encourage SAP customers to transition from SAP Identity Management (SAP IDM) to Microsoft Entra ID. Earlier this month, SAP announced its plans to sunset its IDM solution in 2027. The SAP IDM…
With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…
Last Update: Feb 07, 2024
Sjoukje Zaal gives an overview of the different flavors of Azure Active Directory.
Last Update: Feb 21, 2023
Azure Active Directory makes running one of the most commonly used and useful directory services easy to do and with minimal maintenance and overhead
Find out what auditing features are available in Azure Active Directory.
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Last Update: Jan 04, 2023
In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at why user authentication isn’t enough in a cloud-first, mobile-first world and how Azure AD conditional access works with cloud apps and on premises Windows Server Active Directory.