Category: AD Connect

A good password policy is the first step on securing your environment and company data. Without a password policy in place you can be sure that a lot of users will take a password that can be easily guessed and/or brute forced in less than 5 minutes. Default Azure...

With the traditional file server coming to a end, it is time to move along with Azure File Share and AD authentication. Pre-requisites: Office 365 Tenant with an Office 365 Admin account Active Directory on-premise environment AD Connect PowerShell AzFilesHybrid: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-files-samples/releases STEP 1: First, let’s create a new storage...

With the move to the cloud there might be a time where you would like to remove the Active Directory link (AD Connect) and go for a cloud only strategy. With a few simple steps you can disconnect the AD connect sync from Azure AD. When you look in...

Last few weeks I’ve been struggling with an very difficult Office 365 / Exchange Online case, that got escalated to multiple Microsoft departments to be fixed. I already found one part of the solution, but Microsoft found the second part. Today I would like to take you through all...

If you have a ADFS server for your user authentication in Office 365 / Azure AD, and you want to use Pass Through Authentication and/or password Hash Synchronization we will need to change a few things and run a few Powershell commands. So before we can change the domain...

If you have an AD Connect server, you sometimes require a faster sync than the default 30 minutes. This can be done very easily by entering one Powershell command. Open a Powershell window, and load the AD Connect Sync Powershell module: Import-Module ADSync Once imported, you have 2 options....

Wouldn’t be cool to migrate all your laptops and desktops to Azure AD, but still have your on-premise file server for the people that can’t say goodbye to their network drives? Now it is possible! Azure is supporting out of the box, Azure AD domain joined devices to connect...

Today we will learn how to deploy Microsoft Entra Domain services. So let’s go to the Azure portal and let’s get you started! Step 1: Go to Microsoft Entra Domain Services and create a new Microsoft Entra Domain services! Step 2: Now we can start te setup of MEDS,...

Recently we created an AAD tenant that has no on-premises AD domain counterpart. Now we are facing an issue where we want to be able to use the identities in this tenant to log into some servers. It would appear that we would need to domain join these servers,...

Door Azure AD als je centrale Identiteit opslag te gebruiken word beheer een stuk makkelijker en veiliger. Door Azure AD te gebruiken kan je voortaan makkelijk samen werken met andere bedrijven. Door gebruikers van een andere organisatie uit te nodigen, is het niet meer noodzakelijk om deze ook nog...