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Two New Microsoft Hybrid Services Dramatically Simplify Connecting your Active Directory to Azure
- Sean Deuby
- Jan 10, 2017
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two major new capabilities that will make integrating your on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD much, much easier. Passthrough authentication (PTA) and Seamless Single Sign-On (I'm choosing to call it 3SO) will allow your users to easily access Azure AD applications such as…
NIST joins Microsoft in Changing How We Should Think About Passwords
- Sean Deuby
- Sep 05, 2016
On the heels of Microsoft's updated password recommendations, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has come out with its own updated password guidelines. These recommendations parallel many of Microsoft's recommendations and thus give them extra credibility; in some areas they go further. When two major security industry influencers…
Understanding Azure AD Password (Hash) Sync
- Sean Deuby
- Aug 09, 2016
Now that businesses are adopting cloud computing as part of their business model, a large percentage are choosing to connect their on-premises Active Directory environment to its counterpart in the cloud, Microsoft's Azure Active Directory. When you extend your on-premises AD to Azure AD, you have two choices for how…
When you should use Azure MFA and when you should use MFA Server
- Sean Deuby
- Jul 19, 2016
One of the most common security-related trends I'm seeing with customers is an interest in adding multifactor authentication (MFA) to both their new and existing solutions. This trend is usually driven by a need to increase overall security, or to satisfy regulatory requirements. As a hybrid service, Azure MFA MFA…
