active directory

Office 365 – User restore failed

Prelude For whatever reason your users may end up in the recycle bin. Normally you can restore them easily by just clicking on Restore user on the Office portal. But…

noobient 2015-04-10No Comments

Azure AD Connect Best Practices

The disaster I had gave me some good pointers regarding how one should configure and use their Office 365 tenant and on-premises AD together. Here’s some suggestions: Always use a…

noobient 2015-04-08No Comments

Azure AD Connect Disaster Recovery

Prelude Yeah, I know, the title’s already promising enough. And yeah, it did happen. At some point in my previous post I mentioned that after group filtering failed on me…

noobient 2015-04-08No Comments

Azure AD Connect Preview 2

Overview I’ve just covered my experience with Azure AD Connect Preview 1, but here’s the new preview already. Some highlights: In-place DirSync upgrade is supported. Group-based filtering, in addition to…

noobient 2015-03-29No Comments

Migrating from DirSync to Azure AD Connect

Preface So DirSync is a thing of the past now. It’s deprecated but it’s supposed to keep working. For us, it didn’t. Password sync just never occured, so when a…

noobient 2015-03-29No Comments

FileVault with Active Directory

Remember storing BitLocker passwords in Active Directory? Wouldn’t it be great if you could store OS X FileVault keys the same way? Well, actually, you can. Not out-of-box, but technically…

noobient 2015-03-28No Comments

Office 365 Authentication for Azure

Here’s the deal: you have an Office 365 tenant where all your corporate accounts are stored. Possibly you even have DirSync or ADFS set up and your on-premises AD accounts…

noobient 2015-02-24No Comments