Microsoft Official Courses at special prices to get certified

  Do you want to attend a Microsoft Official Course and get certified at a special price? Now you have the option to do it. If you live in Europe and you want to get a Microsoft certification, but you still cannot afford the high course prices in your country, you should consider to attend…

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New Enhancements to the Azure AD Pass Through Authentication Preview are live

If you regularly follow this blog, you should remember that back in December 2016 I wrote a blog post about Azure AD Pass Through Authentication, which was in Public Preview, https://spanougakis.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/azuread-pass-through-authentication-and-seamless-single-sign-on-is-here/ A few days ago the Azure AD product group announced some new improvements related to that service, so let’s take a look. What is…

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#AzureAD and third-party apps: some really impressive numbers

Back in March this year I had written a blog post related to Azure AD third party apps and how you can find them and use them in the Azure AD App Gallery, https://spanougakis.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/more-new-3rd-party-apps-to-the-azuread-app-gallery/ A few days ago the Azure AD product group announced some really interesting statistics, about how big is that service. Did…

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Try the new phone sign in for Microsoft accounts!

Now that’s really nice. We all hate passwords but we should use them anyway. If you really care about security you should use complex passwords, containing special characters, numbers, symbols, etc. What if you could use your phone to login, without having to use any complex passwords? Now this is possible using the Microsoft Authenticator…

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Join me @ Athens Global Azure Bootcamp, 22 Apr

  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…

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PingAccess for #AzureAD: The public preview is being deployed

  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…

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Conditional Access “limited access” policies for SharePoint are in public preview

  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…

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Microsoft Mechanics Video: New Conditional Access capabilities in Azure AD and Enterprise Mobility + Security

  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…

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