Azure AD Connect sync Fixed an issue where the sync scheduler skips the entire sync step if one or more connectors are missing run profile for that sync step. For example, you manually added a connector using the Synchronization Service Manager without creating a Delta Import run profile for it. This fix ensures that…
Azure Active Directory: 5 reasons to implement it today! 15:30-16:30 Auditorium 2Join me for an overview of the capabilities of Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s Identity and Access management cloud solution (IDaaS). During this session full of demos, we’ll see why it is so important to implement it today and modernize your IT infrastructure using…
It’s really amazing that if you use Azure AD, you have the option to use more than 3000 3rd party apps. As the Azure AD Team says, these apps are the most popular and fastest growing capabilities in Azure AD. But wait, there is more: it seems that they keep adding applications every single day…
Back in September I blogged about a new great partnership of Azure AD and PingAccess, in order to support new kinds of 0n-premises applications. You can take a look at blog post here: https://spanougakis.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/azuread-and-pingaccess-a-new-great-partnership-for-secure-web-app-access/ Starting from March 22nd, the Azure AD team is happy to announce that PingAccess for Azure AD is being deployed…
Back in December 2016 I blogged about the new conditional access in Azure AD through the new Azure portal, you can read the post here: https://spanougakis.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/conditional-access-in-azuread-in-the-new-azure-portal/ The question is: do you allow your users to connect to cloud services using their personal devices? If the answer is yes, then you should consider using conditional…
In this video @Alex_A_Simons and Simon May discuss Azure AD’s Conditional Access system and the many improvements the Azure AD team has made recently which you’ll find below. In the video they demonstrate the improved user experience, how company data is protected without impacting productivity and the improvements they have made to the IT…
We all want to keep our employees happy, while enabling them to be productive. As we know, productivity and security are two different topics and they rarely go together. If you started using Azure AD, you should know that is now possible to create policies and rules, so that you can protect your company’s valuable…
How can you make the authentication mechanism to be a secure one? Try certificates and Certificate-based authentication. What you can actually use today, especially if you want to use your mobile device? Take a look at these two articles that focus on certificate-based authentication for Android and iOS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-certificate-based-authentication-android and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-certificate-based-authentication-ios#getting-started That feature was actually…
Have you seen the new Azure Portal and all the new enhancements? You now should, because there a lot of improvements. This post is about the updates to Enterprise Application management in the new portal. So let’s take a look. The Azure AD team practically moved many of the Enterprise Application management tools you’re used…
It was just yesterday (December 7, 2016) that the Azure AD Product Group announced the public preview of Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication and SSO. This was proved to be a feature that a lot of customers where looking forward to, because they would like to offer a SSO experience to the end user, keep…
Last October the Azure AD Product Group announced the new version of Azure AD PowerShell v2.0, which was in public preview and you should check this blog post, but also this one, showing you what you can do and how you can use it to create dynamic groups. So more cmdlets that you can…
The new Access Panel for your Azure AD apps is now available. It’s a good idea to check the changes, so let’s take a look first at the old one: The new look is mobile-friendly using a responsive layout: Just click on your user account icon to check the details of your user account: You…
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