office 365

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

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

Office 365 Directory Synchronization

Preamble This guide will walk you through the deployment of DirSync. This tool allows you to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory domain with Office 365. This, in turn, allows you…

noobient 2014-04-16No Comments