Category: Identity

What is Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, how to install and eventually remove (if needed)

Managed HSM Key auto-rotation is generally available First the happy news! Key auto-rotation is also generally available for Managed HSM! Earlier this year it came to Key Vault already! Read more here about the Key vault auto-rotation feature and how…

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Azure Front Door and Zero-downtime migration now in Public preview!

Finally it’s here! This was introduced to the Roadmap in March 29th 2022. It was a long wait but it was worth the wait! Read here the full announcement! Why this is a big deal? First there was Front Door…

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Azure Automation Account and Run as account deprecation

First covering why I wrote this article, well this is one reason And another reason is that PowerShell 7.2 came out in public preview. All old things must come to an end, well at least with Cloud services as they…

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 5

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you are in part of your journey that you have either Hybrid or fully cloud-based identities. In the last part I covered how you can keep your External users in bay…

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Cross-tenant User Data Migration is Now Generally Available!

Microsoft has announced that Cross-tenant user data migration is now generally available. What means User data and how the Identity will move between the organizations with the mailbox move? Read the announcement here. Let’s see what this solutions is about….

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 4

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you are in part of your journey that you have either Hybrid or fully cloud-based identities. In the last part I covered how you can use Hybrid Identity Administrator role, Automation…

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PowerShell 7.2.7 and Could not load type ‘System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng’

The error is described in the title but what leads to this error? Generating the problem with Connect-AzureAD module When you have PowerShell 7.* installed and you want to install Azure AD module and connect to Azure AD, the install…

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Accessing Azure SQL with different methods

I decided to write about Azure SQL as inspired by an question from the community. The ask was “How to do I access Azure SQL with MFA enabled user, should I remove the MFA and create a normal user?” In…

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Additional context in Microsoft Authenticator notifications is now generally available!

Why to use? Additional context is now out of preview and you really should enable it as soon as possible, it’s really really important that your users understand where they login from! Multi-factor authentication is excellent security feature, in the…

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 3

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. This will translate to having Source of Authority (SoA) in your on-premises environment. We covered parts of user sync, what kind of solutions to use…

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