ADFS Deep-Dive: Onboarding Applications
I’m back with the onboarding of applications post I promised. Of all my ADFS work I’m performed over the last several years, the one reoccurring pain point that customers have is onboarding...
View ArticleEnabling Secure Boot on Linux with the Windows Technical Preview
When we released Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 and introduced the world to Generation 2 virtual machines - we were only able to run Windows guest operating systems. In the following months we...
View ArticleOne Time Password over SMS Added to Azure MFA Server
Howdy folks, As many of you know Azure MFA can be deployed in two modes, either directly inside of Azure AD in the cloud, or using our Azure MFA server, connected to on-premises ADFS and/or RADIUS...
View ArticleThe Endpoint Zone, February Recap: Conditional Access, ARA, & Ignite
In this episode of The Endpoint Zone, we take a look at the value and application of the new Conditional Access features in Intune (also discussed on the last ITC podcast, and written about in detail...
View ArticleStep by Step instructions for installing RDS Session Deployment using...
Hello AskPerf Readers! Dhiraj here from the Windows Performance team to talk about deploying RDS using Windows PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 R2. As you know, PowerShell has been around for quite a...
View ArticleWhat We’re Doing & Why We’ll Do it: Our Enterprise Mobility World Views
One of the things I love discussing with other organizations are their world views on where a particular market or industry segment will go in the future and why. Every organization has strategies...
View ArticleRethinking Enterprise Storage – Accelerating and Broadening Disaster Recovery...
Recently, Microsoft published a book titled Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model– the book takes a close look at an innovative infrastructure storage architecture called hybrid cloud...
View ArticleMarch updates coming this week to Microsoft Intune
As part of our monthly release cadence, we will be making available the next service update for Microsoft Intune between March 4, 2015 and March 7, 2015. New Intune standalone (cloud only) features...
View ArticleAre You in Danger of Getting “Boxed-In”?
The rapid pace of innovation in cloud technologies has led to an interesting dichotomy for most organizations. On one hand, companies are able to take advantage of new capabilities in record time,...
View ArticleRemote Desktop app for Windows Phone now supports Gateway and Remote Resources
My name is David Bélanger, and I work in the Remote Desktop team. Today, I am excited to announce that the Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1 is coming out of preview. Version 8.1.8 contains two...
View ArticleChecking and Correcting Virtual Hard Disk Fragmentation
With both dynamically expanding and differencing virtual hard disks - the following pattern is used when writing data:Check to see if data has already been written to this area of the diskIf yes -...
View ArticleDST Reminder for this weekend…
Hello Folks! This mornings post is a friendly reminder that DST (Spring forward) is kicking in this weekend (March 8th at 2:00AM – US). Hopefully by now you are prepared and have the latest DST...
View ArticleThe Microsoft Workflow Manager Management Pack for System Center Operations...
Just a quick note to let you know that the Microsoft Workflow Manager Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been updated. The newest version of this OpsMgr 2012 MP now supports...
View ArticleHow to use Microsoft’s VMM User Voice to submit and vote on product...
As David mentioned in his post about the New VM Role option, customer feedback has been very important to us here on the Virtual Machine Manager team. And with that said, we opened VMM User Voice to...
View ArticleFebruary Service Manager #LyncUp Recording is now Available
Thank you, we hit a record attendance on our February 17th call, 86 thank you for all attending. I started with a lean agenda, then once we got into the call, we filled the whole hour. For those of...
View ArticleConditional Access for SharePoint Online with Microsoft Intune
As part of a recent service update to Microsoft Intune, the Intune team announced that organizations now have the ability to control access to SharePoint Online from Office Mobile apps on Android...
View ArticleMigrating Azure ACS namespaces to Google OpenID Connect
Howdy folks, (Short blog post today since my right arm is in an immobilizer.) A couple of weeks back I wrote about our plans for the Azure Access Control Service (ACS). Today we pushed out an update to...
View ArticleThe Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager...
Just a quick note to let you know that the Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been updated. The newest version of this MP has two bug fixes. - A bug that was...
View ArticleSecurity Advisory 3046015 released
Today, we released Security Advisory 3046015 to provide guidance to customers in response to the SSL/TLS issue referred to by researchers as “FREAK” (Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys). Our...
View ArticleSimplifying our Azure AD Authentication Flows
Howdy folks, Today's guest blog post is by Danny Strockis, a Program Manager in our Cloud Authentication services team. His post is targeted to developers who may be wondering about some of the changes...
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