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Exchange admins have enjoyed the Group writeback optional feature in Azure AD Connect for a long time. It offers add-on functionality to Microsoft 365 Groups in Azure AD for organizations that use both Active Directory and Azure AD in a Hybrid Exchange setup.
Microsoft 365, formally Office 365, is maturing. It has been more than 10 years since the launch of Office 365, and the type of migrations I see as a consultant are changing.
Recently I had to upgrade my Azure AD Connect server from version 1.x to version 2.x, and I blogged about in my December 2021 blog article "Upgrade Azure AD Connect from 1.x to 2.x". After the upgrade I had to upgrade my Azure Active Directory Password Protection services as well since I installed a new server and decommissioned the old one.
Last year I wrote "Microsoft 365 Security Assessment" Part 1 and Part 2, where I provided a list of actions one should perform or check in one’s Microsoft 365 environment as a security assessment.
Previously, MVP Nicolas Blank wrote an interesting article "Having an Identity Crisis" and it talked about all kinds of attacks on your environment. One such attack is on user email. Users tend to choose a password that is easy for them to remember and this makes the password weak and easy to guess by others. Even with some social engineering, user passwords are easy to retrieve, as can be seen on this YouTube clip What is your password?
Microsoft introduced the feature Publisher Verification to help administrators to stay on top...
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.
By now, Azure AD Conditional Access should no longer be unfamiliar to anyone in IT. As a refresher, it’s Microsoft’s solution for providing a flexible, condition-based, way of controlling access to (cloud) resources.
At Microsoft Ignite 2019 last year Mark Simos, Lead Architect for the Microsoft Cybersecurity Solution Group, ran a groundbreaking session about the top ten best security practices for Azure today. In his session, he discusses the need for stronger cloud security as more computing environments moving to the cloud. This blog post covers a summary of the session and gives you an overview about the latest Azure security innovations and what’s new in Azure Security Center.