Azure AD Connect is a tool and guided experience for connecting on premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Azure AD. The wizard deploys and configures pre-requisites and components required for the connection, including sync and sign on. Here you find details about latest version. The article will be updated regularly…
Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On
What is Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On? Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On (Azure AD Seamless SSO) automatically signs users in when they are on their corporate devices connected to your corporate network. When enabled, users don’t need to type in their passwords to sign in to Azure AD, and usually, even type in […]
User sign-in with Azure Active Directory Pass-through Authentication
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Pass-through Authentication allows your users to sign in to both on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords. This feature provides your users a better experience – one less password to remember, and reduces IT helpdesk costs because your users are less likely to forget how to sign in. When […]
Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On: How to & Quickstart
Requirements: You use version 1.1.654.0 or later of Azure AD Connect (Check latest version here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594) Recommendation: Allow outgoing connections to internet using port tcp 443. This is the best practice to make the connection up and running without risk of issues with changing URL. Otherwise: If your firewall or proxy allows DNS whitelisting, whitelist […]
Prerequisites for Azure AD Connect
This topic describes the pre-requisites and the hardware requirements for Azure AD Connect. Before you install Azure AD Connect, there are a few things that you need, related to: Azure AD On-premises Active Directory Azure AD Connect server (hardware and software requirements) SQL Server used by Azure AD connect Accounts & connectivity Components prerequisites SSL […]
Azure AD Connect sync: Best practices for changing the default configuration
Azure AD Connect is a very important service, it is the connection between your Active Directory on-premises and you Azure AD in the cloud. Normally, you do not have a test possibility and all changes are on live system. The purpose of this topic is to describe supported and unsupported changes to Azure AD Connect […]
Azure Latency Test
Test network latency from your IP location to Azure datacenters around the world. You can see closest Datacenters and choose your locations to check: http://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/Latency
Upcoming improvements to the Azure AD sign-in experience – coming in June 2018
I’d like to give you an early heads up on some visual design updates that are coming to the Azure AD sign-in experience. Microsoft inform about changes in sign-in experience related to online sign-in (Azure Ad sign-in). This is also used for sign-in to an Dynamics 365 environment. Here is an overview about the changes […]
Azure AD Connect sync: Attributes synchronized to Azure Active Directory / Dynamics 365 online
A common question is what is the list of minimum attributes to synchronize. The default and recommended approach is to keep the default attributes so a full GAL (Global Address List) can be constructed in the cloud and to get all features in Office 365 workloads. Find more at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnectsync-attributes-synchronized#dynamics-crm For Dynamics 365 (last […]
Azure locations & data centers
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. You can choose your Azure location and find an overview for available Azure locations: Europe North Europe (Ireland) West Europe (Netherlands) France Central (Paris) France South (Marseille) UK […]