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Three Reasons to Use Azure Automation to Run Your Scripts 

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Azure Automation is a cloud-based service that can help you run scripts; configure, update, and manage operating systems; and manage your IT asset inventory. This blog post highlights three key advantages of using Azure Automation to schedule and run scripts. Native Cloud Capabilities Running PowerShell scripts in Azure Automation instead of on premises offers several […]

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An Introduction to Protected Actions in Conditional Access

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The Microsoft Azure portal includes a subset of permissions called protected actions, which can be used to manage Conditional Access (CA) policies and cross-tenant access settings. Protected actions are associated with an authentication context, which can be added to the scope of a CA policy. The relationship between the authentication context, protected actions, and CA

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Windows 365 Boot and Switch: Building a Solid Foundation

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In the ever-evolving landscape of digital workspace solutions, Windows 365 emerges as a cloud-based PC deployment solution tailored for organizations seeking enhanced security and centralized control. With the advent of Windows 365, two key features come into play: Windows 365 Boot and Windows 365 Switch. In this blog, we’ll explore what these two services offer,

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6 Tips to Harden Your Windows LAPS Deployment

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In a previous blog post, we covered how to migrate to Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). With Windows LAPS deployments gaining traction, it’s important to review configuration items and implement policies that can harden your endpoints and mitigate attacks from bad actors. Secret encryption, secret history, access control list (ACL) monitoring, and more play

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Use Privileged Access Workstations to Increase Security

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All organizations use privileged accounts to manage their environments. In many cases, administration is performed from productivity workstations, which are vulnerable to a substantial number of attack vectors. A key component in securing privileged access is performing privileged administration from secure workstations, also known as privileged access workstations (PAWs). PAWs are purpose-built, hardened computers that

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Active Directory: The End of the Road? Not Quite Yet!

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Microsoft announced several enhancements to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) that are included in the preview for the next version of Windows Server (Windows Server 2025). These enhancements provide additional security, scaling and performance, and supportability for AD DS/LDS. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some

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Virtual Machine Generation ID with Active Directory Domain Controllers

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Active Directory (AD) domain controllers (DCs) have been around since Windows 2000. At that time, virtualization was in its infancy and almost every server was physical. And many of those servers weren’t even housed in a typical datacenter or server closet. Virtualization started to take off in the early to mid-2000s. It enabled the use

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Deploying the eduPerson Schema to Active Directory

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If you work in a higher education environment, there exists a set of standards that must be implemented to allow students and faculty to collaborate on projects at other schools or to use higher education specific services. One of these standards is the eduPerson schema, which provides storage for widely used education-specific attributes about a

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Improving Entra ID B2B User Management with Cross-Tenant Synchronization

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B2B user management is a challenge for many organizations that utilize it for collaboration. In this blog, we discuss how to address this challenge using cross-tenant synchronization. Cross-tenant synchronization connects two or more Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) tenants and copies users between them while keeping attributes in sync. In intra-organization collaboration scenarios, such

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Ravenswood Technology Group is based in Chicago, IL but with customers around the world. We help companies, universities, and other organizations with less than 100 employees to over 500,000 build secure, hybrid infrastructure that enable their users to work from anywhere. 

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