Windows Defender Credential Guard can be enabled either by using Group Policy (GPO), Windows registry, the Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI), or the Windows Defender Credential Guard hardware readiness tool. Credential Guard can also protect secrets in a Hyper-V virtual machine, just as it would on a physical machine. In this article, we shall discuss how…
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Azure Monitor is a platform service that provides a single source for monitoring Azure resources. With Azure Monitor, you can visualize, query, route, archive, and otherwise take action on the metrics and logs coming from resources in Azure. Azure Stack Hub has built-in Azure Monitor capabilities; however, they are limited. Therefore, if you are looking…
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Azure AD Connect is a tool for connecting on-premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Azure AD. The wizard deploys and configures prerequisites and components required for the connection, including sync and sign-on. Azure AD Connect encompasses functionality that was previously released as Dirsync and AAD Sync. Here is a guide on how to synchronize your on-premises…
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that provides communications over a computer network, typically between a website and a browser. for your information. The primary goal of TLS is to provide a secure channel between two communicating peers and the only requirement from the underlying transport is a reliable, in-order data stream. Specifically, the…
Azure AD Connect is a tool for connecting on-premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Azure AD. The wizard deploys and configures pre-requisites and components required for the connection, including sync and sign-on. Azure AD Connect encompasses functionality that was previously released as Dirsync and AAD Sync. Azure AD Connect as described in this guide is used to…
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Single sign-on (SSO) is an identification method that enables users to log in to multiple applications and websites with one set of credentials. SSO streamlines the authentication process for users. After configuring Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) as discussed in the hyperlink, you may run into several user sign-in issues. In this guide, you will learn how to…
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Azure AD is a service that provides identity and access management capabilities in the cloud. With Pass-through Authentication, users are able to sign in to both on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same credentials. When synchronized and the user performs a sign-in request to cloud applications, this feature validates users’ credentials directly against your on-premises…
Azure AD is a service that provides identity and access management capabilities in the cloud. With Pass-through Authentication, users are able to sign in to both on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same credentials. In this guide, you will learn how to sync on-premises AD with Azure AD via Azure AD Connect. Please see how…
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Azure AD Connect is an on-premises Microsoft application that’s designed to meet and accomplish your hybrid identity goals. The following error will be prompted if you wish to perform an on-premise synchronisation to the Azure Active Directory environment. In this guide, we shall discuss “The password has expired: Update your password and try again”. Please see…
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In Azure Active Directory, user accounts are granted a set of default permissions. A user account in Azure depends on one or all of the following, type of user, role assignments, and their ownership of individual objects. See this guide for reasons to deploy AAD and how to set up an Azure AD Tenant. There are different…
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After you create your directory, you can add your custom domain name. Every new AAD tenant comes with an initial domain name, <domainname>.onmicrosoft.com. You can’t change or delete the initial domain name, but you can add your organization’s names. Adding custom domain names helps you to create user names that are familiar to your users, such…
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Azure tenant is a dedicated and trusted instance of Azure Active Directory (AD) that’s automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Office 365. An Azure tenant represents a single organization. Therefore, in order to use Azure AD, you must become a “tenant” within…
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In this guide, you shall learn how Pass-Through Authentication works: Azure Active Directory integration with on-premise AD using PTA. Azure Active Directory (AAD) is a Microsoft cloud-based multi-tenant directory that provides identity and access management capabilities in the cloud. It provides MFA to help protect users from 99.9% of cybersecurity attacks. Please, see Unicode Manipulation:…
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