Change AD DS Connector account
How to change AD DS Connector account in Azure AD Connect? After creating an AD DS Connect account with the correct permissions, it's time to use the new AD DS Connector service account. Let's look at how to change AD…
Create AD DS Connector account
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect is a great tool to sync on-premises objects to the cloud. What if you want to install Azure AD Connect and use a service account or change the service account in Azure AD Connect instead…
Find Azure AD Connect accounts
Azure AD Connect uses 3 accounts to synchronize information from Windows Server Active Directory to Azure Active Directory. You sometimes want to check if these accounts have the correct permission or write them down before migrating Azure AD Connect to…
Configure Azure AD Password Protection for on-premises
Azure Active Directory is excellent when you want to protect the organization from weak user passwords. That's because Microsoft constantly analyzes Azure AD security telemetry data looking for commonly used weak or compromised passwords, and maintains a list of globally…
Upgrade Azure AD Connect to V2.0
We have Azure AD Connect V1 running in the organization. We like to upgrade from Azure AD Connect V1 to Azure AD Connect V2. We recommend you follow the article Upgrade Azure AD Connect when upgrading to the latest version.…
Move from remember MFA on trusted device to Conditional Access sign-in frequency
You have enabled remember Multi-Factor Authentication on trusted device in Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication. When you look at the setting, you see that Microsoft recommends using Conditional Access sign-in frequency. Let's look at how to move from remember Multi-Factor Authentication…
Disable basic authentication with Conditional Access
How to disable basic authentication in Office 365 with Conditional Access policy? You want to block basic authentication known as legacy authentication in Azure AD because you have modern authentication in place for Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises. Also, many…
Outlook needs password after Hybrid Modern Authentication implementation
Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) is implemented in the on-premises organization. This way, the users with an on-premises mailbox will use modern authentication instead of basic authentication. It's great because from now on, they will use Azure AD Conditional Access policies.…
Configure Hybrid Modern Authentication in Exchange on-premises
How to enable Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) in Exchange Server on-premises? We want to secure the Exchange on-premises organization with modern authentication instead of basic authentication. This way, we can use MFA for on-premises user mailboxes and not only for…
Restrict access to Azure AD administration portal
Why do users have access to Azure AD administration portal? You only want administrators to have access and restrict users to access Azure portal. It's not relevant for standard users to have access. Is there a way to disable user…
