Category: AAD Connect

AAD Connect – Multiple Azure AD tenants (Public preview)

Long awaited feature is here, now you can synchronize the same users, groups, and contacts from a single Active Directory to multiple Azure AD tenants. This topology implements the following use cases: AADConnect can synchronize the same users, groups, and…

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Azure AD Connect v. 2.0.88.0 released

Release status 12/15/2021: Released for download only, not available for auto upgrade. Bug fixes We upgraded the version of Microsoft.Data.OData from 5.8.1 to 5.8.4 to fix a vulnerability Accesibility: We made the Azure AD Connect wizard resizable to account for…

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SSPR writeback to disconnected forests using AAD cloud sync (Public preview)

What is AAD Cloud sync? Azure AD Connect Cloud sync is a light-weight agent that is commanded from the cloud. So there is no databases with the agent unlike with the old Azure AD Connect. I wrote a post about…

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Sign-in to Azure AD with email as an alternate login ID (still in Preview)

What will work? Only emails in verified domains for the tenant are synchronized to Azure AD. Each Azure AD tenant has one or more verified domains, for which you have proven ownership, and are uniquely bound to you tenant. One…

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Moving from SfB Hybrid to Teams-only

Time to move from On-premises Hybrid to the cloud. What it takes and what could be the problems with the process? End of Life for On-premises versions Skype for Business 2015 mainstream end date was October 13, 2020. However, the…

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AAD Identity protection and Hybrid Identity

In the past years Microsoft made some excellent improvements for securing the Identity. One of these features was Azure AD Identity Protection and it’s proxy version to allow your policies to flow inside on-premises AD. It uses the same kinda…

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Azure MFA Extensions and Network Policy Server

Half legacy but half cloud. Many organizations use NPS for securing their wlan and lan traffic or just to authenticate user based on their location inside AD or group memberships. NPS is Microsoft radius-based access management solutions that has been…

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What’s new with AAD Connect V2 and why to migrate?

History of AAD Connect User synchronization solutions has been here for a long time and they have evolved all the time, sometimes faster sometimes slower. Middle of September Microsoft released a new main version from Azure AAD Connect and the…

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Hybrid identity best practices

Microsoft has world-class Identity support for different applications and for different organizations. Microsoft identity can be used for SSO in most of the applications no matter where it is. And the base for this is a well designed Hybrid Identity….

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Modernize your 0ldSk00l VPN and legacy shares

Companies have had for ages requirements for connecting employees computers to organization network. In the past I have done these setups with Ipsecs, point-to-point tunnelings and recent year with Direct Access and Always-on vpn style. Between these it was done…

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