Azure Active Directory Archives - Practical 365

Is the price right for Microsoft 365 Copilot? Azure AD is now Entra ID, Bing Chat Enterprise unravelled and Syntex Backup explored: The Practical 365 Podcast S3 E32

Steve Goodman — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:37:54 +0000

On the show this week, we discuss Azure AD getting rebranded as Entra ID, Microsoft announces Copilot pricing, new features to the roadmap, plus we are getting a new practical 365 Podcast co-host.

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Practical Protection: Asking the Right Questions to Break the Kill Chain

Paul Robichaux — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:23:10 +0000

You can’t disrupt a chain if you can’t identify the links. In this blog, Paul Robichaux goes over some of the ways you can break a Kill Chain in your environment. And it all starts with asking yourself the right questions.

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GPT in Power Platform & Teams, New Azure AD features to secure & collaborate, plus we’re joined by Mary Jo Foley: The Practical 365 Podcast S3 E29

Steve Goodman — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:00:23 +0000

On this week’s show, Paul and I are joined by industry veteran Mary Jo Foley, to talk about her keynote session at this year’s TEC conference this coming September – learn her view on how your priorities and Microsoft’s intersect and what value Microsoft 365 needs to deliver. Plus we’re talking new Power Platform and Teams AI-driven features plus there’s a plethora of new Azure AD & Entra features that help secure your environment and make it easier for complex organizations to work seamlessly together.

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Practical Protection: Limiting the Damage from Local Admin Accounts

Paul Robichaux — Wed, 03 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Because of the way the Windows security model works, it’s not currently possible to eliminate the use of passwords for local administrator accounts. Given that fact, the next best solution is to remediate the biggest problems with passwords for these local accounts, including weakness, reuse, and tenure. In this article, we discuss how the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) helps with all of those!

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How Quickly do Threats leak from a Compromised AD into the Cloud?

Thijs Lecomte — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

As organizations move to the cloud, on-premises environments (and their security) are put in the background as the focus shifts to the cloud. Nevertheless, most organizations I know are in a hybrid scenario where the on-premises environment holds the master data and synchronizes everything into Azure Active Directory. This blog explores how an on-premises environment is connected to the cloud and how an attacker might move from on-premises to the cloud laterally.

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Practical Protection: Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hybrid

Paul Robichaux — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:22:30 +0000

Hybrid work is really a mixed blessing—while it offers a lot of fantastic benefits for people who are able to take advantage of it, it can introduce some new and unpleasant security issues that you need to be prepared to deal with. This article dives into these new risks and how you can avoid them.

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Making the Case for Identity Governance in Azure Active Directory

Thijs Lecomte — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:33:00 +0000

Identity Governance within Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 can help administrators bring balance to identity controls and streamline sign-in. In this article, I describe what's in Identity Governance and how those features can assist with identity management.

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Azure Active Directory Premium – Where to Start

Brian Desmond — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:27:15 +0000

For many organizations it is not possible to implement and manage Office 365 to the level of security necessary without Azure AD Premium. It is also not possible to effectively deploy and consume the capabilities of Azure AD Premium all at once. Recommending a phased deployment approach, Brian Desmond walks you through implementation of the four most important features you should start with.

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Secure access to Office 365 with Active Directory Federation Service 2019

Dominik Hoefling — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:17:39 +0000

MVP Dominik Hoelfing provides guidance on how to secure your Office 365 environment with Active Directory Federation Service.

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New Azure Certifications announced at Ignite 2018

Chris Rhodes — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:19:36 +0000

A summary of the new Azure Certifications announcements at Microsoft Ignite by Chris Rhodes. He goes into detail about Azure Administrator, Azure Developer and Azure Solutions Architect.

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