Last year's release of Microsoft Azure Active Directory introduced a new way of providing its identity and access management controls in the cloud. Azure Active Directory was designed to be a ...

Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service. The use of Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) with the Azure Files service has reached the ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

Microsoft has a gaggle of tools for syncing Active Directory accounts. But the company knows that to continue gaining market and mind share for its cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, it needs to make ...

Microsoft has announced that they have removed the 16 character Azure Active Directory password limit and admins can now use up to a maximum of 256 characters. This aligns the passwords lengths with ...

Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no ...

Microsoft is making available to its volume licensing customers, as of September 15, a second paid version of Azure Active Directory. Azure Active Directory Basic, the newest version, sits between ...

It's noteworthy that just four new services -- RemoteApp, Media Services, Site Recovery and Azure Active Directory Proxy -- are at the general availability stage, meaning that Microsoft considers them ...

Microsoft has outlined how Windows 10 will be used with Azure Active Directory and the premises-based AD. While Active Directory has been around for about 15 years, mobile device use and the ...

On September 28 and September 29 this week, a number of Microsoft customers worldwide were impacted by a cascading series of problems resulting in many being unable to access their Microsoft apps and ...