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Jeff Guillet MVP, MCSM

Microsoft Certified Master & MVP: Exchange Server MCITP 2012+Messaging+Lync+Virtualization | MCSE+Messaging | CISSP

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Use Azure Active Directory Application Proxy to Publish Internal Apps

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Jeff Guillet MVP, MCSM

One of the great features in Microsoft 365 is Azure Active Directory Application Proxy. AAD App Proxy allows you to publish internal web applications to the Internet and ensure users authenticate in a very secure way. Best of all, it can do this usually without requiring any firewall changes – all that is required is outbound Internet access from the computer running the AAD App Proxy agent.

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Keeping Your Organization Secure With A Remote Workforce

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Jeff Guillet MVP, MCSM

What a difference a few weeks can make. In less than a month, a huge segment of the world’s working population has had to transition to a work from home model. For some workers and organizations this is the first time they’ve done this, and some are still scrambling to make it work. A lot of organizations have spent the last 10-20 years securing their environments to prevent external access only to find out now that they need to break down those barriers.

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Introducing AAD Connect 1.1.749.0 with new privacy and troubleshooting features

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Jeff Guillet MVP, MCSM

Microsoft is drizzling out a new build of Azure Active Directory Connect via auto-upgrade to select customers. They often do this when a new build has significant changes to make sure it doesn't break in existing organizations that currently use AAD Connect. It will be available for all customers to download in the coming days/weeks as either an auto-upgrade or manual download.

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Microsoft Releases Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication and Seamless Single Sign-on

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Jeff Guillet MVP, MCSM

One of the most important aspects of moving to a cloud solution like Office 365 is to provide a way for users to authenticate to their cloud resources. Organizations typically want to reduce administrative overhead and user confusion by managing only one directory, be it the on-premises directory (AD) or the cloud directory (Azure AD).

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook, 2nd Edition

In this book, Microsoft MVP & Technical Editor of ENow's Azure & Active Directory Center, Sander Berkouwer will share the intricacies of managing Azure AD, Azure AD Connect as well as Active Directory for administration in the cloud and on Windows Server 2022.