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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 Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), now integrated into the OS, is the replacement for Microsoft LAPS, which was a separate installation. Windows LAPS is a native, built-in solution with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In previous blog posts (Part 1, Part 2), we discussed a powerful feature in Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) known as dynamic membership rules. In short, Entra ID’s dynamic [...]

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 [...]

There are several ways to deploy applications to users or devices that are managed by Microsoft Intune. In addition to application types, you must also take into consideration the method [...]

In my previous blog [Win32 App Deployment with Intune Supersedence Rules] I explained how to update Win32 applications deployed within Microsoft Intune by using the supersedence feature. Although the process [...]

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 [...]

In my previous blog post we reviewed why time synchronization is important, as well as proper time synchronization configuration of domain controllers (DCs) holding the Primary Domain Controller Emulator (PDCe) [...]

Microsoft 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 [...]