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Just got a confirmation for two of my session suggestions for NIC 2016. Join me in Oslo February 3-5th 2016! Here are the sessions I will be giving: Azure AD B2B and B2C: The next generation collaboration has arrived Level: 300 Azure AD Business-2-Business and Business-2-Consumer are two new features of the global trust fabric …
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Group Policy has been with us for well over 12 years now and has turned out to be a good tool for deploying configurations to your users, servers and clients. A summary of Group Policy in general is beyond what I want to say here so for anyone looking for that before reading on have …
I guess the title says it all! Here is the link to the Microsoft Connect site to download: http://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/ Connect-MSOLService now brings up the familiar ADAL prompt with MFA and ADFS support etc. Make sure to read the release notes included, and you should probably uninstall the Microsoft Online Sign In assistant. Here are the …
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The introduction of Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) support in Office 2013 and Office 265 ProPlus is great news. The Office suite of applications is now able to take advantage of advanced authentication options like federated SSO and MFA. Using ADAL with Office is referred to using Office with modern authentication. Modern authentication was recently …
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I just spent half an hour talking to RunAs Radio host Richard Campbell about Azure RMS. The show will go live on May 13th. RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. The full range of IT topics is covered from a Microsoft-centric viewpoint. I was not …
make sure you DO NOT enable Direct Server Return on your endpoint Load Balanced Set: In November of 2014 support was added for Source IP Affinity (also known as session affinity or client IP affinity) in the Azure Load Balancer. Before that it was not compatible with Remote Desktop Gateway. You could sort of load …
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I am trying out the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and have been running build 9926 for some time. Today (19032015) Microsoft released build 10041 and I installed it immediately, of course. Not surprisingly I had some problems which were so bad that I reverted back to the 9926 build. I later figured out that it …
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Here is a quick rundown of how to add the base VM agent to existing Azure VMs: Find all your VMs that currently do not have the agent installed: Get-AzureVM | where { $_.GuestAgentStatus -eq $null } or this variation if you only want to get the VMs that are actually running: Get-AzureVM | where …
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Introduction The claims pipeline in ADFS is an interesting piece of software. I recently had a chance to re-familiarize myself with it. A third party SaaS application used an organizations internal employee numbers together with their own customer number for that organization to uniquely identify users. This called for issuing a claim to the SaaS …
The slide decks from my talks at the Norwegian Infrastructure Conference (NIC) event are now available on SlideShare: Massive Lift & Shift Migrations to Microsoft Azure with the Microsoft Migration Accelerator Cloud Based Rights Management with Azure RMS Enjoy!