Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

Azure Backup - An overview

Why cloud backup over a traditional one? A cloud-based backup service allows organizations to remotely back up applications, data, and systems from a single location. Depending on their resources and requirements, organizations can use a public or private server as their cloud backup infrastructure. Cloud-based backup is preferred by many due to its efficiency in storage and data management. Here…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to monitor and backup Azure resources

Monitoring and backing up your Azure resources is critical to ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of your cloud infrastructure and data. Azure provides several tools and services for effective monitoring and backup. Here’s a general guide to monitoring and backing up Azure resources. Monitoring Azure resources Azure offers several tools to monitor your cloud environment…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to set up Azure Backup on a Windows PC

One of the most important priorities for organizations, regardless of their size, is ensuring the safety of their data. Downtime, caused by a ransomware attack, server crash, or any other disruption, poses a direct threat to an organization’s survival. To safeguard against this, a data backup is essential. It enables businesses to recover rapidly from data loss incidents and resume…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to protect Azure VM using Azure Backup

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) offer a scalable and cost-effective compute platform in the cloud. However, data loss remains a constant threat. This article explores how safeguarding your Azure VMs with Azure Backup can mitigate this risk. What is Azure Backup? Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup service that safeguards critical data in your Azure VMs. It creates recovery points, which are…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to use Azure AD for disaster recovery

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning is essential for any organization to bounce back from disruption. While Azure Active Directory (AD) itself isn’t directly used for disaster recovery, it plays a supporting role, particularly when recovering your on-premises AD. BCDR implementation can be done with Microsoft Azure’s native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

Understanding Tombstone Objects in Active Directory

The tombstone object: What is it? Imagine accidentally deleting a user account in active directory. A tombstone object steps in, holding significant information like the deleted object’s unique identifier and security details. An object that is deleted from active directory is not eliminated from the database; rather, AD creates an object that is simpler and is referred to as a…
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AD Domain ServicesOperations & Troubleshooting

How to troubleshoot Azure AD Federation Issues

When configuring Azure AD Federation with third-party Identity Providers, it is not uncommon to encounter issues related to authentication, authorization, and federation metadata. This chapter provides an overview of common issues that can arise and offers troubleshooting tips and best practices for resolving them. Authentication Issues Issue: Users are unable to authenticate using…
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AD Domain ServicesOperations & Troubleshooting

Top-12 ways to troubleshoot common issues in Azure AD Tenant

In the business world, Azure Active Directory, also known as Azure AD, is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that manages the identity and access processes of an organization. Furthermore, it also offers a wide range of features and functionalities that can be used to manage and secure user identities, in addition to authentication, access control, and user provisioning. Despite Azure…
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