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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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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In a previous blog post, we discussed taking advantage of Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) Application Proxies to allow access to on-premises applications without a dependency on traditional tools such as a VPN. That blog includes a few great points that should be highlighted again. For example, in most organizations an Entra Application Proxy: Sounds …
[WEBINAR] Panel: Defending Hybrid Identity Environments Against Cyberattacks In this webinar, leading experts from the identity security space, including Brian Desmond from Ravenswood Technology Group, share their insight and experience helping real-world organizations secure hybrid environments, which are prime targets for increasingly common cyberattacks that compromise on-premises systems, then move to the cloud—or vice versa. …
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In the past few years, we’ve seen a rapid expansion in remote and remote-hybrid workforces. Remote employees primarily use cloud-native services to manage their daily workloads from the comfort of their home (or public) internet. This has caused a great deal of stress for IT departments, especially those that rely heavily on their internal infrastructure. …
3 Components of Cloud Authentication: Enterprise SSO, Zero Trust, Passwordless Read More »
Active Directory (AD) is still the predominant identity and management platform for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide. Larger organizations with hundreds to even thousands of applications continue to rely on AD, even as they transition to a cloud-first or AD-minimized environment. The reason? Unraveling all the AD-related technology and applications an organization has invested …
Active Directory Forest Recovery: Plan to Eliminate Downtime Read More »
In Part 1 of this blog post, we looked at what goes into thinking about and designing your automated access policies. As discussed, we want to first think about our policies in “natural language” before we dive into the technical implementation. We also covered the dynamic membership rules feature in Entra ID (formerly Azure Active …
How to Use Dynamic Group Memberships in Entra ID: Part 2 Read More »
Many organizations control access to internal systems by simply relying on whether or not an account is enabled. However, users often change roles throughout their careers within a single organization. For example, a user might start as an intern in one department and then be hired full-time in another department. After a few years, they …
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Azure AD B2C offers authentication as a service. Knowing the trade-offs between out-of-the-box user flows and custom policies can be a huge advantage.
Microsoft announced that after October 31, 2021, viral Azure Active Directory tenants would no longer be created for B2B collaboration.
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