Active Directory Archives

Feb 20 2019

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Stop Using 8.8.8.8 for Your Production Network

By Kevin Oppihle | Active Directory, DNS, System Administrator

We have all done it. You don’t know your ISP’s DNS off the top of your head or your ISP has recently changed. You are in a hurry to verify…

Jun 27 2017

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It’s Always DNS: A Horror Story

By Tim Lewis | Active Directory, Exchange, IT Horror Stories, System Administrator

I’ve been an IT consultant for nearly 15 years. During that time, I’ve run across countless horror shows involving all manner of outages and technical glitches that plunged me into…

Feb 21 2017

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Self-Service Password Reset via Azure AD and Office 365

By Daryl Hunter | Active Directory, Microsoft, Office 365

We’ve recently been asked about, and wanted to implement internally, self-service password resets via Office 365. Not only do we want to enable password resets, we also want to enable…

Nov 03 2016

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Upgrading to Azure Active Directory Connect

By Daryl Hunter | Active Directory, Azure

If you’ve stumbled upon this blog, you’ve realized you need to get your on-premises to Office 365 online directory synchronization upgraded. If you’ve been around as long as I have…

Jan 14 2016

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Office 365 SSO: Will the Real SSO Please Stand Up?

By Ed Buford | Active Directory, Microsoft, Office 365

SSO… what does it really mean? For some time now we have understood SSO to mean Single Sign On, but lately I’ve been hearing folks in the Office 365 world…

Jan 12 2016

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Quick Tip: Using PowerShell with Active Directory to Find Groups and Users

By Drew Harper | Active Directory, Microsoft, PowerShell, System Administrator

A colleague recently faced an issue where he needed to get a list of users out of Active Directory that were part of a specific type of group. For Windows...