THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect Create a new sync configuration, from Entra ID to Active Directory: After initial creation that is much similar the configuration of the other way around, you can now go into filtering of …
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Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Part 3 – Configure Active Directory to Entra ID sync
THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect In cloud sync, chose to setup new configuration – AD to Entra ID: Make sure password hash sync is enabled and then provision. After initial configuration, sync is not active yet. Go …
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Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Part 2 -On-demand provisioning
THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect This section is to ensure one understand that there is a way of testing before enabling syncs. You will need to configure the sync, but in the following articles about configuration of …
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Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Part 1 – Install Agents
THIS ARTICLE IS PART OF THE SERIES: Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect ImportantYou should install the agent on multiple tier 0 servers – this is supported and will add to the resilience of password hash configuration and general provisioning if one agent goes offline. …
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Entra Cloud Sync – Lightweight Agent – Cloud Managed
Table of Sub-pages This series of articles go through the configuration steps to configure Active Directory to Entra ID Sync, and from Entra ID to Active Directory. Cloud Sync is the newer lightweight agent, compared to Connect Sync that have been around for many years.However you should carefully read the features matrix below to understand …
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Password Protection Policy – Custom Banned Passwords List
Source: Microsoft Entra Password Protection – Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn CHECK OUT MY OTHER ENTRA ID PASSWORD PROTECTION GUIDE ON HOW TO DEPLOY TO LEGACY ACTIVE DIRECTORY FOR SYNCED USERS: Password Protection Policy – Hybrid mode to on-premise AD – Christoffer Klarskov Jakobsen – Microsoft Architect License requirement: default enabled Microsoft global banned passwords …
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Password Protection Policy – Hybrid mode to on-premise AD
Source: Microsoft Entra Password Protection – Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn Huge credits to Ali Tajran: Configure Microsoft Entra Password Protection for on-premises – ALI TAJRAN Requirements License Requirements Scope Microsoft Entra Password Protection with global banned password list Microsoft Entra Password Protection with custom banned password list Cloud-only users Microsoft Entra ID Free Microsoft Entra ID …
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RDP to Entra ID Joined VM (Workaround then Azure Bastion is not possible to deploy)
Windows server 2025 (and earlier) comes with the feature of being Entra ID joined.In Azure, this is very easy and can be done then deploying, or later by installation the AADLoginForWindows extension. The best way to manage a VM (then you need RDP access), is by using Azure Bastion. However if that is not an …
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Entra ID – Passwordless Configuration – Basic
Intro This guide is devided into two phases. One phase is about preparing the customer’s Microsoft 365 Entra ID to support passwordless implementation.The other phase is about creating users, adding temporary access pass and self-service password reset options. DISCLAIMER: Some of the pictures is in danish – I wish to come back and edit for …
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Move on from Exchange Online SMTP Basic Authentication with Client Submission
Intro Link to full Microsoft article:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp/ba-p/4114750 Microsoft are closed one of the older legacy protocols; SMTP with basic authentication.Due late september 2025, now is the time to prepare your systems for the decommission of SMTP relay using the old basic authentication. This article talks about a few ways to modernize sending mails. High volume email …
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