On-premises – Set-AzWebApp -name "Anything Microsoft and other stuff on the side"

Modernizing Entra Connect Authentication

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 28/05/2025

Posted in Azure, Entra ID, Identity, On-premises, Security

Absolutely — here’s an updated version of the blog post that includes a deep dive into why Microsoft implemented Application ID-based authentication in Entra Connect, aligning with the Microsoft Security First initiative. 🔐 The Power of Application ID & Microsoft’s…

Azure AD Application proxy and some previews

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Application Proxy, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, On-premises, Security

Azure AD Application proxy is an essential tool for providing access to your on-premises applications. In the past you could use it as a reverse proxy to internal Web-based (accessible with browser) applications and you could define One URI per…

Section 7 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Plan and implement the use of data connectors for ingestion of data sources in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 09/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Azure Automation, Defender, Identity, Microsoft Graph, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Continuing the journey with Defender for cloud. This time we will see Data source, how to onboard Azure resources and Azure ARC integration. With the exponential rise of cloud services, companies now place a high priority on protecting cloud workloads….

Azure Arc with Defender for cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 07/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Defender, Hybrid, On-premises, Security

Deploying external server to Defender for Cloud Deploying those servers can be done with the following methods: And this is the reason we are talking about Arc as an onboarding tools. See more here But as many use Azure for…

Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 2 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Active Directory, ADFS, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Certificates, Conditional access, Cross-tenant, Defender, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Zero trust

Identity protecting is challenging if you don’t know what you should protect and when you do, you should know how to protect it. In the second part we will be discovering more on Conditional Access as a dynamic boundary in…

The history of Offline files and how to affect the future?

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/01/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Identity, On-premises, Onedrive, Storage, Windows 10, Windows 11

Offline files This time I wanted to write about a little bit different headline and that headline is Offline files. Offline files in Windows allow users to access files stored on a network share even when they are not connected…

Tips and tricks on Securing your Data factory

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 20/12/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Data factory, IAM, Identity, Key vault, Managed HSM, Microsoft Purview, On-premises, Security

Why? Like we all know Identity is a hot topic after the MFA fatigue methods or discovering and attacking our resources as external or internal entities but the often overlooked aspect of security is inside the data layer. You could…

SQL Server 2022 and Azure ARC with Azure subscription model

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 28/11/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure ARC, Compliance, Defender, IAM, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Purview, On-premises, Powershell, Security, SQL

SQL 2022 has arrived and in this post I will try out the new setup that should have Azure ARC install embedded. Why to use Azure ARC with SQL 2022? One reason could be security, you will get these features…

Category: On-premises