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 »
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 »
PuTTY is an open source SSH and telnet client, originally developed for Microsoft Windows by a British programmer Simon Tatham. In addition to the SSH client, the development program includes the PuTTY Key Generator, which is a utility for generating RSA and DSA key pairs to enable more secure communication and passwordless authentication when accessing… 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 »
As announced by Microsoft a while ago, the DirSync and Azure AD Sync tools has been deprecated and support of both products is expiring. The announced time is approaching, and both DirSync and Azure AD Sync will reach End of Support on 13. April 2017. DirSync and Azure AD Sync have been replaced by Azure… Read More »
During the last few days Microsoft released two new versions of the Azure AD Connect, first 1.1.370.0, and shortly after a minor increment to 1.1.371.0. Besides a fix for an issue in Azure AD Connect if port 9090 is not opened for outbound connection, the big news is support for Azure AD pass-through authentication and… Read More »