Azure AD Connect Tool – (update 12/18/2018)

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…

Microsoft retires 3DES in Office 365 beginning February 28, 2019

Microsoft statement – December 21, 2018 We’re retiring 3DES in Office 365 beginning February 28, 2019 Major update: General Availability rollout started Applied to: All customers   As previously communicated (MC124104 in October 2017, MC126199 in December 2017 and MC128929 in February 2018), we are planning to move all of our online services to Transport […]

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 […]

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 […]

Announcing: Office 365 endpoint categories and Office 365 IP Address and URL web service

Published On : April 2, 2018 Microsoft will make some changes to how Office 365 IP Addresses and URLs are published. Starting today (April 2, 2018) we’re providing the data on new REST based Web Services and on October 2nd, we will stop publishing the previous HTML, XML, and RSS format of this data. How […]

Datacenter regions for Office and Dynamics 365 – Find out: Where is my data located?

Applies to Dynamics 365 (online), version 8.x / 9.x Dynamics 365 (online) is being hosted in datacenters in more and more regions. After Dynamics 365 (online) becomes available in a new region, the following apply: For new Dynamics 365 (online) organizations, the datacenter will be aligned with the country/region you selected during sign-up. For existing […]

Basics: Check online service health in Office 365 Admin center

Applies to Dynamics 365 (online), version 8.x / 9.x You can quickly get a real-time status of your Dynamics 365 (online) and Office 365 services. The dashboard on the Office 365 Admin Center provides a comprehensive view of the service health of your online services. Start in Office 365 Admin center. Example view for Office […]