As a professional, I like to prepare my projects to avoid any hick-ups during stressful moments. From reading up on the relevant Microsoft Docs, implementing a staging environment to define run and rollback changes to triple-checking my assumptions. Recently, I have been involved in several projects for decommissioning Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Staged … Continue reading "From the field: Three gotchas when migrating applications from AD FS to Entra"
What’s New in Entra ID in February 2025
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for February 2025: Whats … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in February 2025"
Happy 25th Birthday, Active Directory!
Today, The DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs are celebrating the 25-year anniversary of Active Directory Domain Services as a released product. Windows 2000 Server The introduction of Active Directory to the world was part of the release of Windows 2000 Server on February 17, 2000.
How to get the redirected URI for a go.microsoft.com/fwlink address
In today’s Zero Trust networking scenarios, many organizations opt to only allow specific web locations to be accessible to their systems. This is problematic with addresses that act as redirect locations to actual web locations, because the actual web location needs to be allowlisted in the firewall to be accessible. Common scenarios A common … Continue reading "How to get the redirected URI for a go.microsoft.com/fwlink address"
From the field: You receive error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in
Sometimes, you hit error messages that are just too vague to troubleshoot. I like these kinds of situations. I’ve hit errors before and their origins were always interesting. Let’s see what’s happening today causing the error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in. The situation An organization is … Continue reading "From the field: You receive error ‘AADSTS9090561 The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request’ when signing in"
What’s New in Entra ID in January 2025
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for January 2025: … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in January 2025"
Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0 introduces Administrator Auditing
Microsoft Entra Connect Sync version 2.4.27.0 introduces the Pubic Preview of Administrator Auditing in Connect Sync. What's New Entra Connect Sync v2.4.129.0 offers one update and four bug fixes: Auditing administrator events Public Preview Starting with Entra Connect Sync v2.4.129.0, Entra Connect Sync enables for logging any admin changes made on Entra Connect Sync. … Continue reading "Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0 introduces Administrator Auditing"
What’s New in Entra ID in December 2024
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for December 2024: … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in December 2024"
Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0 addresses a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-37334)
Microsoft Entra Connect Sync version 2.4.27.0 uses OLE DB version 18.7.4 that further hardens the service. Upgrade to this latest version of connect sync to improve your security. What’s New Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0 offers one update and two bug fixes: SQL-related drivers updated to OLE DB v18.7.4 Starting with Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0, … Continue reading "Entra Connect Sync v2.4.27.0 addresses a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-37334)"
What’s New in Entra ID in November 2024
Microsoft Entra ID, previously known as Azure AD is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Entra ID and in the Message Center, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Entra ID for November 2024: … Continue reading "What’s New in Entra ID in November 2024"