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Microsoft Announces Entra, A New Identity and Access Management Suite

Microsoft has launched a new product family of identity and access management solutions called Microsoft Entra. This new suite of products is designed to help organizations protect access to any application or resource by making it easier to discover and manage permissions in multi-cloud environments. As cyberattacks like credential theft and social engineering become more...

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Working with Azure AD Administrative Units

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…

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Use a Super User Group for Privileged Access to Encrypted Office 365 Content

Controlling Access to Sensitive Content A recent Microsoft Technical Community article covers how to use Azure AD Privileged Identity Management to control access to the super-user permission for Azure Information Protection. An account holding super-user permission can access any content protected (encrypted) by an Azure Information Protection or Office 365 sensitivity label. I don’t intend…

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Windows Server 2016: Understanding Microsoft’s Enhanced Security Administrative Environment

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at Microsoft’s recommendations for securing Active Directory forests using its Enhanced Security Administrative Environment model.

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Windows Server 2016: Short-Lived Active Directory Group Membership

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to temporarily add users to Active Directory groups.

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Windows Server 2016: Set Up Privileged Access Management

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) in Windows Server 2016.

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