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Step-by-Step Guide to Active Directory “Protected Users security group”

The Protected Users security group was introduced with Windows Server 2012 R2 and continued in Windows Server 2019. This group was developed to provide better protection for high privileged accounts from credential theft attacks. Members of this group have non-configurable protection applied. In order to use the Protected Users group, PDC should be running with a minimum of Windows Server 2012 R2…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

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

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How Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) Works?

There are 3 different methods which we can use to integrate on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD.  • Pass Password hash synchronization • Federation using Microsoft AD FS or PingFederate • Pass-through Authentication  All above methods allow on-premises users to use their existing domain user names and passwords in order to authenticate in to Azure AD integrated services. However…
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Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 03 – Create Attribute-Driven Conditional Access Policy for Agent Identities

Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 02 - Create Agent identity blueprints and Agent Identities

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Step-by-Step Guide: Manage Group using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module

In my previous blog post, I explained how we can manage Azure AD users by using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module. In there I also shared many examples. You can access it via http://www.rebeladmin.com/2019/05/step-step-guide-manager-users-using-azure-active-directory-powershell-graph-module/ In this blog post I am going to show how we can manage Groups, using same method.  Azure…
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Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 03 – Create Attribute-Driven Conditional Access Policy for Agent Identities

Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 02 - Create Agent identity blueprints and Agent Identities

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Step-by-Step Guide: Manage Users using Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module

Similar to the on-premises Active Directory, we also can use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory. Let's see why we should use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory.  Early bird access to features– Microsoft keeps releasing new features, bug fixes, updates, feature enhancements more frequently to Azure AD services than on-premises Active Directory. Microsoft releases new…
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Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 03 – Create Attribute-Driven Conditional Access Policy for Agent Identities

Step-by-Step guide to Microsoft Entra Agent ID – Part 02 - Create Agent identity blueprints and Agent Identities