Active DirectoryWindows Server

Time Based Group Membership - AD DS 2016

What is time based group membership ? In new AD DS 2016 allows administrators to assign temporally group membership which is expressed by TTL (Time-To-Live) value. This value will add to the Kerberos ticket. This also called as “Expiring-Link” feature. When user assign to a temporally group membership, his login Kerberos ticket granting ticket (TGT) life time will be equal to lowest TTL value…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active DirectoryWindows Server

Step-by-Step guide to setup Active Directory on Windows Server 2016

Long wait is over for windows server 2016 and its available for public from Oct 12, 2016. So most looking for upgrade paths or at least start testing in their lab environments. (if it wasn’t brave enough to try with technical previews  ). What is new in Active Directory?  There are interesting new features such as time based group membership, privileged access management etc. but in this post…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Service Accounts

In an organization there can be lot of applications, services running to serve its user base. Some time when you setup an application services it asking you to use a service account with certain permissions. In a computer normally we can run application as Local Service, Network Service or Local System. Also if required you can use a user account setup on the domain or local computer. Traditional…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Step-by-Step Guide to install Active Directory on Windows server technical preview 2

Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 for the public. I am sure most of you already got the news. In this article I am going to demonstrate how we can install AD in Windows server 2016 TP2. You can download windows 2016 TP2 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-previewit You can deploy it using .iso or .vhd file. If you notice…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Configure Entra ID lifecycle workflow to trigger mover task on user profile changes

Step-by-Step Guide: How to setup Entra ID Restricted management Administrative Units ?