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A lot of companies are neither on-premise only nor cloud-only but hybrid. That means that Active Directory objects like accounts, groups or devices are synced with Entra Connect (formerly known and still installed as Azure AD Connect). If you want to migrate an account from hybrid to cloud-only the typical process is to move the […]
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There are some ongoing confusions around the meaning, usage and purpose of the application and the service principal endpoint in Graph API. To make matters worse even microsoft is sometimes misleading in their documentations and therefore even other third parties like terraform in their registry. Whats our starting point? In Entra ID we have two […]
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The default limits for the SharePoint Online versioning are somewhat complex. First there is not necessarily just one setting to set your limit. You have the multiple options to define limits in your SharePoint environment, e.g. at SharePoint Tenant level, at a SharePoint site or even on a single SharePoint library. Version history limits are […]
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There are many ways to overcome the many challenges of user lifecycle management, especially the onboarding of a new employee. While creating the new account and its birthrights with pricey solution like Quest One Identity Manager is a breeze, almost all solutions lack the “out of the box”-ability to secure a new account with more […]
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The need to allow access to a shared mailbox hosted in an exchange environment is a request that most exchange admins encounter on a regular basis. Back in the old days you just gave it full access to the shared mailbox. If an application requested the access you instead created an active directory account (or […]
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Mid of 2023 I was writing a little script to gather the information who invited a guest account and write that very information in an extension attribute from the user account. The plan was to run it on a schedules basis to monitor the audit log in Entra ID for these specific events and collect […]
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Guest accounts in Entra ID are a bit of a double edged sword. They are perfect to invite external users in your tenant to work together in projects, keep collaborating easy and with the External Identities Cross Tenant Sync Feature there is little to do to keep your place clean, if the foreign tenant has […]
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Microsoft just announced the coming support for Passkeys in Entra ID on Ignite 2023. Passkeys are unique codes or passwords that provide secure access to a device, system or service. They’re a form of multi-factor authentication and are considered a safer and easier replacement for traditional passwords. FIDO2 is an open standard for passwordless authentication […]
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