Category: Azure AD

Passwordless authentication is a hot topic, if You have a password it can be cracked or phished. In the last parts we enabled MFA so let’s continue from there. What is passwordless? Passwordless means that You sign-in without a password,…

Before You had to schedule PowerShell scripts from Your task scheduler inside servers or workstations but not that has changed, You can run Your favorite scripts directly from Azure with Automation Accounts and runbooks. What is Azure Automation Account? Azure…

Still in section 2, there is a lot to write about. Now we are covering Identity protection. What is Identity Protection? Identity Protection uses the learnings Microsoft has acquired from their position in organizations with Azure AD, the consumer space…

First we will cover the solutions in hand. What is Conditional access? Conditional Access is based on conditions for a location, devices used, risks discovered. Here is an excellent picture from Microsoft which explain the flow. Licensing You need at…

This is part of section two for AZ-500 exam preparation. First we have to see what PIM is? Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides a time-based and approval-based role activation to mitigate the risks of excessive, unnecessary, or misused access permissions to…

This is the first section from study series for AZ-500 – Manage Azure Active Directory identities and starting with Create and manage a managed identity for Azure resources In my example I will use Virtual Machines, you can also use…

In the last part I explained what storage accounts are and how you can access them. In this part I will explain how to protect them from insider or external risks. Defender for storage Azure storage accounts are billed hourly….

Do you know how to secure your Storage Accounts? How about the differences between SAS keys and Access Keys? Some of you do but many of you don’t, so let me make an introduction to the differences. This is a…

Long awaited feature is here, now you can synchronize the same users, groups, and contacts from a single Active Directory to multiple Azure AD tenants. This topology implements the following use cases: AADConnect can synchronize the same users, groups, and…

Release status 12/15/2021: Released for download only, not available for auto upgrade. Bug fixes We upgraded the version of Microsoft.Data.OData from 5.8.1 to 5.8.4 to fix a vulnerability Accesibility: We made the Azure AD Connect wizard resizable to account for…