Category: Active Directory

Are you tired of seeing the Windows Admin Center (WAC) prompt from Microsoft Windows Server Manager (as shown in Figure 1) and not knowing what to do about it? Do [...]

Passwords have long been the de facto authentication mechanism for identities. Length and complexity plagued us as we struggled to produce an acceptable password that we could easily remember and [...]

Are you ready to make the move to Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) single sign-on (SSO)? Do you want to avoid the complications of federated authentication for Microsoft 365? Are [...]

In a previous blog series, I discussed how to use certificate authentication for PowerShell scripts running in a standard Windows environment. (See “Authentication Options for Automated Azure PowerShell Scripts, Part [...]

You may recall that in March 2020 Microsoft was planning to configure a couple of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) security settings on behalf of its customers. The company ended [...]

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 [...]