Azure AD

I think you’ll find that there are quite a few announcements this month. The summer quiet period is over, and we’re into a whole new development/release semester in Microsoft, not to mention the countdown to the usual peak release season for Microsoft Ignite has started – most releases announced at Ignite happen well before Ignite….

If you had trouble yesterday accessing many of Microsoft’s services, you are not alone. For several hours, late into the afternoon on the East coast, Teams, Azure AD, and many other services were inaccessible. While outages are infrequent, they do happen with Microsoft 365 and each time this occurs, the company will post a triage…

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spotted lots of tiny little changes in the Azure Portal. And my feeds have lit up over the last few hours. There must be a big Microsoft conference happening right around now? Yup, Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) is here and that means there will be lots of cool…

SMS and Voice MFA Methods in Microsoft’s Crosshairs On November 10 Alex Weinert, the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, posted It’s Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication. The article argues that it’s time to consider dumping the SMS and voice methods for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in favor of passwordless strong authentication…

Logical Division of Azure Active Directory Management Since its launch in 1999, Active Directory has used Organizational Units (OUs) to logically partition the directory. Despite discussions going back as far as 2014, the ability to partition Azure Active Directory in the same or an equivalent manner wasn’t available. Administrative Units (AUs), launched in public preview…

Clamping Down on Guests After several years’ usage, most Office 365 tenants are accustomed to guest users and the way that the Microsoft 365 groups membership model allows guests access to group resources such as plans, sites, and teams. For most, the model works well, and the only issue is how to best manage the…

I did think about calling this the typo edition – I just bought a Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboard and it might be preventing physical strain but my mental state as a result of the change is a whole other matter.

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here’s the updates you need to know about for June.

Aidan explains what this new permissions feature for Azure Files shares, powered by Azure AD Domain Services, offers, supports, and does not support.

It’s the end of the month and if you missed any of the Azure announcements, we have you covered.