For years, IT administrators have been stuck in a frustrating paradox: all their mailboxes live happily in Exchange Online, yet they are forced to maintain that one stubborn Exchange server on-premises. Why? Just to manage email addresses and mailbox attributes. It’s like keeping a whole car in your garage just to use the radio. That… Read More »
Microsoft continuously retires products and services across its portfolio, with major waves affecting dozens of products each year. The key to avoiding disruption is proactive discovery and systematic migration planning. This guide shows you exactly how to find at-risk resources in your environment and plan successful transitions. Why Azure resource retirement management is critical Microsoft… Read More »
As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Microsoft have started enforcing the use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all users when accessing certain portals and services. First in line to be included are Azure portals and services, with Microsoft 365 following in 2025. Enforcement phases Beginning October 2024, Microsoft started phase 1, where MFA… Read More »
As part of the Secure Future Initiative, starting November 2024, Microsoft will block and finally delete inactive Azure subscriptions. This includes both Azure subscriptions purchased using a credit card and Azure subscriptions provided through CSP partners. Azure subscriptions are considered inactive, when there has been no activity, consumption, or support cases for more than 12… Read More »
Together with the introduction of several new security products, dashboards and capabilities, Microsoft today announced the rebranding of Azure Active Directory (AD) to Microsoft Entra ID.
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How to easily retrieve the Tenant ID for any Microsoft Entra tenant.
Beginning 30. June 2023, Microsoft start the planned retirement of the Azure AD Graph service and three PowerShell modules; Azure AD, Azure AD-Preview and MS Online. Although applications using Azure AD Graph APIs will continue to work after 30. June 2023, there will be no service level agreement or maintenance commitment beyond security-related fixes. The… Read More »
Microsoft opened the public preview for the new cross-tenant synchronization, which enables automatic provisioning and lifecycle management of user accounts across tenants. This function simplifies a number of the previous challenges for multi-tenant organizations that need close collaboration between employees with easy sharing of both data and applications across tenants. This new feature expands the… Read More »
Azure Active Directory offers the ability to trust MFA and device compliance claims from other Azure AD tenants. Enabling MFA trust with another tenant streamlines the sign-in process for B2B collaboration users and enables access for B2B direct connect users. If you want to allow B2B direct connect with an external organization and your Conditional… Read More »
Microsoft recently introduced new features that will enable organizations to get a more integrated collaboration and trust experience between multiple Azure AD tenants. Azure AD now include the B2B direct connect feature that allow you to configure a mutual trust relationship with another Azure AD organization for more seamless and integrated collaboration. Currently, this feature… Read More »