What is Microsoft Azure?
The Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform allows businesses to deploy, manage, and build applications and services with a wide range of services that can be accessed from anywhere you have an internet connection. It is a public cloud platform that offers businesses a scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for hosting their applications and data. With…
Despite the proliferation of cloud architecture, organizations cannot entirely shift from their existing on-premise environments due to the presence of important legacy solutions that do not support the migration. Besides, certain sensitive data and applications can only be locally hosted to avoid security and compliance issues.
In such cases that involve a hybrid infrastructure, it can be…
How to set up self-service group management in Azure AD
February 10, 2023
Self-service group management is a feature of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) that allows users to create and manage groups within your organization’s directory. This can be a useful way to delegate group management tasks and reduce the workload of your IT team. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to set up self-service group management in Azure AD.
Step 1: Enable…
How to use Azure AD groups to manage role assignments
February 10, 2023
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management service that helps organizations manage user access to on-premises and cloud resources. One of the key features of Azure AD is the ability to create and manage groups, which can be used to assign roles and permissions to users within your organization.
In this article, we’ll take a look at how to use Azure…
How groups work in Azure AD
February 10, 2023
The straightforward way to provide users with resources is directly assigning the relevant resources to a user, but doing this for hundreds and thousands of users can be quite taxing. This is where the concept of Groups enters the fray in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Groups are a way of assigning resources to users, only this time, users are added to a group and the group is allotted with…
How access management works in Azure AD
February 8, 2023
The process of authenticating, authorising, and auditing access to IT systems, applications and services is known as access management. Access management is usually coupled with identity management resulting in identity and access management (IAM).Via rigid and strong control over access from on-premises to cloud-based services and infrastructure, access management aids with enhancing security and…
How to deploy Domain Controller in Azure Active Directory?
December 9, 2022
There are a number of features that are unique to Azure AD Domain Services that provide full compatibility with Windows Server Active Directory, including domain joining, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication, and group management. Let us look into how to deploy domain controller in Azure AD.
These domain services allow you to consume them without having to deploy, manage, and patch…
What is Azure Active Directory B2C?
December 7, 2022
Azure Active Directory (AD) B2C is a customer identity access management (CIAM) solution capable of providing services that scales to hundreds of millions of customer identities and is highly available globally. It is intended to enhance a regular Azure Active Directory instance to enable external user registration through a local account (email) or by delegating to a variety of social accounts…
How to create a group in Active Directory
February 14, 2022
Groups in Active Directory (AD) bring together users and devices that share common permissions, and access rights for easy management and efficient administration. Read on to learn how to create one.
Steps to create a group in AD:
Launch the computer which has AD DS installed, go to “Start” and choose “Administrative tools”.
Choose the tile that reads “Active…
