As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Microsoft have started enforcing the use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all users when accessing certain portals and services. First in line to be included are Azure portals and services, with Microsoft 365 following in 2025. Enforcement phases Beginning October 2024, Microsoft started phase 1, where MFA… Read More »
Together with the introduction of several new security products, dashboards and capabilities, Microsoft today announced the rebranding of Azure Active Directory (AD) to Microsoft Entra ID.
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How to easily retrieve the Tenant ID for any Microsoft Entra tenant.
Beginning 30. June 2023, Microsoft start the planned retirement of the Azure AD Graph service and three PowerShell modules; Azure AD, Azure AD-Preview and MS Online. Although applications using Azure AD Graph APIs will continue to work after 30. June 2023, there will be no service level agreement or maintenance commitment beyond security-related fixes. The… Read More »
Microsoft opened the public preview for the new cross-tenant synchronization, which enables automatic provisioning and lifecycle management of user accounts across tenants. This function simplifies a number of the previous challenges for multi-tenant organizations that need close collaboration between employees with easy sharing of both data and applications across tenants. This new feature expands the… Read More »
Azure Active Directory offers the ability to trust MFA and device compliance claims from other Azure AD tenants. Enabling MFA trust with another tenant streamlines the sign-in process for B2B collaboration users and enables access for B2B direct connect users. If you want to allow B2B direct connect with an external organization and your Conditional… Read More »
Microsoft recently introduced new features that will enable organizations to get a more integrated collaboration and trust experience between multiple Azure AD tenants. Azure AD now include the B2B direct connect feature that allow you to configure a mutual trust relationship with another Azure AD organization for more seamless and integrated collaboration. Currently, this feature… Read More »
Recently I received an interesting question regarding extracting extensionAttribute data from Azure AD. Apparently this seems simple, but the information is not available through standard Azure AD PowerShell not the Azure AD portal. In Azure AD Connect, by standard the extensionAttribute# values gets synchronized from the on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD via the following… Read More »
Last week, Microsoft launched the Azure AD Connect version 1.1.553.0 which include a vast range of fixes, improvements and new features. Among the most urgent fixes is the update that addresses a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege if Azure AD Connect Password writeback is misconfigured during setup. This vulnerability allows an attacker to… Read More »
After several versions released during the last months of 2016, there has not been much news about Azure AD Connect. Although Azure AD Connect is still a cornerstone in the integration of on-premises identity platforms with Azure AD, the Identity Team are most certainly putting a major effort in preparing Azure AD pass-through authentication and… Read More »