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 »
Last week, Microsoft launched the Azure AD Connect version 1.1.553.0 which include a vast range of fixes, improvements and new features. Among the most urgent fixes is the update that addresses a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege if Azure AD Connect Password writeback is misconfigured during setup. This vulnerability allows an attacker to… Read More »
After several versions released during the last months of 2016, there has not been much news about Azure AD Connect. Although Azure AD Connect is still a cornerstone in the integration of on-premises identity platforms with Azure AD, the Identity Team are most certainly putting a major effort in preparing Azure AD pass-through authentication and… Read More »
As announced by Microsoft a while ago, the DirSync and Azure AD Sync tools has been deprecated and support of both products is expiring. The announced time is approaching, and both DirSync and Azure AD Sync will reach End of Support on 13. April 2017. DirSync and Azure AD Sync have been replaced by Azure… Read More »
Recently I encountered a Web Application Proxy (WAP) server that was stuck in a failed state after changes to the ADFS backend service. In the Remote Access crimson log on the WAP server, an event 422 error appeared once every minute, showing that the WAP server could not retrieve proxy configuration from the ADFS backend… Read More »
During the last few days Microsoft released two new versions of the Azure AD Connect, first 1.1.370.0, and shortly after a minor increment to 1.1.371.0. Besides a fix for an issue in Azure AD Connect if port 9090 is not opened for outbound connection, the big news is support for Azure AD pass-through authentication and… Read More »
During a recent upgrade of Azure AD Connect I encountered the following error in the Application event log: Log Name: Application Source: ADSync Date: 05-12-2016 11:28:21 Event ID: 6313 Task Category: Server Level: Information Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: AADSync.adatum.dk Description: The server encountered an unexpected error creating performance counters for management agent “adatum.dk”. Performance… Read More »
Microsoft just released the 1.1.343.0 version of the Azure AD Connect product, which is used for integration between your on-premises Active Directory Domain Services or LDAP V3 solutions and Azure Active Directory. Azure AD Connect provides identity synchronization for Microsoft Cloud Services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365. The new version of Azure AD… Read More »
Microsoft has released the latest increment of Azure AD Connect, which is used to integrate your on-premises directories with the Azure AD. The latest release contains a significant number of fixes and improvements, including changes to the *-ADSyncSyncCycle cmdlets. Full set of fixes: Changes to sync interval does not take place until after next sync… Read More »
I have have worked on a case where external access to the ADFS service was blocked and the Remote Access Management console on the WAP server fails with this error: Web Application Proxy could not connect to the AD FS configuration storage and could not load the configuration. Make sure that the Web Application… Read More »