Tag Archives: Identity Management

Yammer identity integration with Office 365 now released

Yammer identities and the profile updates have been decoupled from the identity management and synchronization in the other Office 365 services, and setting up synchronization of identities to Yammer has required deploying and configuring the Yammer Directory Synchronization (DSync), a separate tool from the Azure AD Sync/Azure AD Connect used for Office 365. After the… Read More »

Resolving “Windows could not start Active Directory Federation Services service”

After installing and configuring the ADFS role on the primary federation server, the ADFS role is installed on the secondary federation server. The ADFS Configuration Wizard resulted in and error, which made me go back to the primary server to verify that everything was working – it was not … As the GMSA account was… Read More »

Azure AD Connect Released !

Azure AD Connect is the next-generation identity synchronization tool for Microsoft cloud services, and combines the features of Microsoft’s Directory Synchronization (DirSync) and the Azure AD Sync Services (Azure AD Sync) tools. Azure AD Sync that was released in September 2014 is the replacement for DirSync, but the newly released Azure AD Connect will be… Read More »