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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been noodling on a good way to get B2B synchronization to work (similar to cross-tenant synchronization) involving Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCCH) and Microsoft 365 Worldwide/Commercial.
While there is a preview available for cross-cloud synchronization, it’s a ways off from being generally available.… [ Continue reading ]
The title of this post is a mouthful. I understand that.
Fortunately, the steps are pretty straightforward.
When working with transitioning organizations to Azure AD, it’s important to give the consumers of said systems the best possible experiences from a sign-on perspective.… [ Continue reading ]
While working on a project for a customer, I noticed that the didn’t have a way to correlate “uniqueness” between guest identities that they create and a source of authority system. I wanted to explore using the employeeId attribute in Azure AD as a way to set this data.… [ Continue reading ]
Recently, I had a customer ask how to help enable their Office 365 tenants to collaborate more easily. Currently, the problem they face is generating invitations to an ever-growing and ever-changing list of recipients across tenants. It requires a lot of hand-holding and maintenance.… [ Continue reading ]
This feature is an “oldie but goodie” that my customers are starting to ask questions about as they start looking into ways to automate their Office 365 deployments.
Can I sync additional attributes to Office 365, and can I use them for Group-Based Licensing?… [ Continue reading ]
If you are utilizing external, guest, or B2B users in your Office 365 or Azure environments, you may need a way to determine which objects haven’t been logged in or used in a while. Azure AD doesn’t provide an easy way to view this information (really only having the refresh token time available). … [ Continue reading ]
Update: We now have some public documentation available for this as well, so be sure to check there, too! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-deployment-plans
Imagine this scenario: You’ve been running Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) since before it was cool, and you’re tired of maintaining that highly available infrastructure (at least 4 servers) and the whole federation thing and its myriad of quirks and drawbacks and headaches (such as alt-id (which is still supported in Pass-through authentication with some caveats, listed below), claims rules, certificates, and the fun of trying to change UPN suffixes from one federated UPN to another).… [ Continue reading ]