Last week Microsoft announced official (GA) SAML support for Azure AD Application Proxy! Security Assertion Markup Language, aka SAML, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties. A typical use case is the communication between an
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In this tutorial we’ll explain and walk through the configuration of passwordless authentication in Azure AD, based on FIDO2 authentication. Before diving into all of the required steps, let’s first explore and understand the basic concepts. What the heck is
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Microsoft Azure offers a very powerful set of services to help organizations make the shift to the public cloud. The portal makes it so easy to deploy resources so that you forget about it easily and costs can get out
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I’ve always learned to keep things simple and stupid (KISS) wherever possible, although it’s not always feasible. The same goes for Azure governance and management. Azure subscriptions are subject to numerous technical limits which sometimes forces you to spread resources
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This tutorial demonstrates how to deploy your very own Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations demo / development environment in your own Azure subscription. Microsoft provides a portal for these kind of deployments, named Lifecycle Services (a.k.a. LCS). Important disclaimer!
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I am often involved in scenarios where the IAM architecture is being modernized because of a transition to a hybrid or full Public Cloud model. Particularly during organizational merges or acquisitions, questions arises whether tenants should be merged or not.
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Did you know you can leverage the Azure Instance Metadata Service to retrieve instance-specific details about your Azure VM? It provides information like the SKU, network configuration and tags. Go ahead and try it out on an Azure VM using
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Let’s say your company uses SaaS software (like Teams, SalesForce, Office 365) which leverages Azure AD as (cloud) identity provider, and your corporate users are collaborating with external users. We all know a password as a single layer of defense
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Microsoft has just released the (public preview) availability of Windows Container support on Azure App Service! This will enable developers to have more control of their code running in their containers, and extending the support for Windows-based solutions. Benefits You
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During the Microsoft Inspire event last July, Microsoft announced three new Azure certification paths: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Microsoft Certified Azure Architect On July 16th, Microsoft released the following new exams for the first one: Azure
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