Password resets are common service desk request IT engineers deals with. Passwords are weak authentication method. Passwords are breakable, crackable and guessable. This is why Microsoft invested on password less authentication such as Windows Hello. However, majority of systems still use traditional user name and password to authenticate.
When user forget their password, it prevents them from…
Azure AD conditional access policies allows to provide conditional based access to cloud workloads.
In one of my previous blog post I explain it in detail what is conditional access policy and how we can configure it. you can find it on http://www.rebeladmin.com/2017/07/conditional-access-policies-azure-active-directory/ . I highly recommend to read it before we continue on this…
Azure AD Connect allows engineers to sync on-permises AD data to Azure AD. If you use express settings for the AD connect setup, by default it enables the password synchronization as well. This allows users to use same Active Directory password to authenticate in to cloud based workloads. This allow users to use single login details without maintaining different passwords. It simplifies the…
In active directory schema, it is allowed to add custom attributes. In organizations, there are situations where this option is useful. It is most of the time related to application integration requirements with active directory infrastructure. In modern infrastructures, applications are decentralizing identity management. Organization’s identities can sit on active directory as well as…
