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Three ways to use Site Recovery Manager with virtualized Domain Controllers
One of the benefits of virtualizing machines is the built-in resiliency of the underlying virtualization platform. In many vSphere environments consisting of multiple datacenters, this resiliency is...
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HOWTO: Perform an Azure AD Connect Swing Migration
Azure AD Connect is a crucial component in today’s Hybrid Identity strategies. This tool takes care of the synchronization of objects and their attributes from an on-premises Active Directory...
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TODO: Move from the Azure AD Graph API to the Microsoft Graph API
Last month, Microsoft has announced the deprecation of the Azure Active Directory Graph API (graph.windows.net). Going forward, the Microsoft Graph API (graph.microsoft.com) is the supported way to...
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HOWTO: Set an alert to notify when an additional person is assigned the Azure...
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. User...
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Achieving Active Directory-as-a-Service with VMware vRealize Orchestrator
VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator is a product used by many virtualization admins to automate common tasks. Today, we’re looking at using vRealize Orchestrator to enable automation of common Active...
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What’s New in Identity from Microsoft Inspire 2020
Microsoft Inspire is Microsoft’s annual event where it kicks off its fiscal year with its partner community. Inspire is Microsoft’s way to explain what’s coming in the year ahead and work together to...
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HOWTO: Enable Extended Protection for Authentication on the SQL Servers...
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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HOWTO: Determine your Azure AD tenant’s object limit and count
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity as a Service platform. It is a global service, used by millions of organizations worldwide. To make the service useable for all of these organizations,...
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Happy Birthday, Windows 10!
On July 29th, 2015, Microsoft made Windows 10 generally available to people worldwide. Today, we celebrate Windows 10’s 5th anniversary! At its release, Windows 10 offered many new features, including...
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TODO: Change apps, scripts, alerts and policies to cover the new role names...
Starting today, Microsoft is making changes to resolve the inconsistent naming of built-in role names between the Microsoft 365 admins center, the Azure AD portal and the Microsoft Graph API. In...
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The video of my Netwrix webinar on migrating to the Cloud is now available
Yesterday, I presented a 75-minute session on the three approaches to migrating to the cloud, together with Netwrix’ Russel McDermott. Now, a mere working day after the webinar, the Netwrix team has...
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Azure AD Connect version 1.5.45.0 is a bug fix release
Last week, a new version of Azure AD Connect was released: version 1.5.45.0. This version is a bug fix release. After every fresh major release of Azure AD Connect by Microsoft, several smaller hotfix...
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory in July 2020
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its...
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On-premises Identity updates & fixes for July 2020
Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates. These are the...
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HOWTO: Repurpose an Azure AD-joined device in an organization without Intune
Many organizations are adopting Azure AD Join as the mechanism to create a trust relationship between their Windows 10-based devices and their Identity solution. In the obligatory...
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Knowledgebase: You experience Warnings with EventID 5829 on Domain Controllers
In Microsoft-oriented networking infrastructures, your Active Directory Domain Controllers may suddenly experience high number of Warning events in the System log in Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) with...
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HOWTO Tell if Azure AD Connect is using the v2 Endpoint
Azure AD Connect is Microsoft’s free tool to synchronize objects and their attributes from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) implementations to Azure Active Directory tenants. Many millions of...
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I’ve joined the Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast
The 2020 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIPConf) was originally planned for April 2020. As New York and other cities around the globe helped us combat the COVID-19 pandemic, this was not a...
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vSphere 7’s vMotion interface notifies for time differences between vSphere...
In the series Virtualizing Domain Controllers on vSphere, I explained the importance of proper time synchronization for virtualized Active Directory Domain Controllers and how to keep these Domain...
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Getting to know the devices that people in your organization use App...
On this blog, and in several other places, I’ve shared my experiences with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication. In the early days of Azure MFA, a lot of organizations, a lot of client applications and a...
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