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You can add photos to Azure Active Directory guest accounts and have Office 365 apps display those photos. But it’s a lot of work to track down suitable photos for individual guests. If you want to change the default two-initial icon displayed by Office 365, you can use PowerShell to update all guest accounts with a photo. Here’s how I handled the problem.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up Azure Active Directory Connect pass-through authentication.

Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a powerful tool that allows organizations to better manage and protect their local administrator account passwords on Windows devices. This feature is available on Azure Active Directory-joined or Windows Server Active Directory-joined devices. In this article, I will explain how to configure Windows LAPS in an Azure…

At Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week, there was a series of announcements for new Azure Active Directory features either entering general availability or released in public preview. AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) app gallery now includes AWS Single Sign-On (SSO). AWS SSO is a cloud service that is designed to…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of new Azure AD cross-tenant collaboration settings. The feature was first announced back in February, and it lets IT Pros control how end users can securely collaborate with external organizations. With this release, IT administrators can access the new settings in the External identities section of the Azure AD…

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…

Office 365 makes it easy to collaborate with external users through Office 365 Groups and Teams, both of which use Azure B2B Collaboration. In fact, collaboration is so easy that users might be carried away and share with all and sundry, including your competitors. Which is why it’s nice to have a policy to control sharing with certain domains that works for applications like Groups, Teams, and Planner.

Russell Smith outlines two new features of Azure Active Directory Connect, Seamless Single Sign-On and Pass-Through Authentication.

Want to setup single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise apps using Azure Active Directory? Russell Smith walks us through the process in this helpful tutorial.

Resetting Azure Active Directory password is simple with a little help from PowerShell in this quick, how-to article by Russell Smith.