Active Directory

How PKI Works ?

When I talk to customers, engineers, most of them know SSL is “more secure” and works with TCP 443. But most of them do not really know what is a certificate and how this encryption and decryption works. It is very important to know how it’s exactly works then the deployment and management becomes easy. Most of the PKI related issues I have worked on are related to…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active Directory

Group Policy Security Filtering

Group Policy can map to Sites, Domain and OUs. If group policy is mapped to OU, by default it will apply to any object under it. But within a OU, Domain or Site there are lots of objects. The security, system or application settings requirements covers by group policies not always applies to boarder target groups. Group Policy filtering capabilities allows to further narrow down the group policy…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active Directory

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets – Part 01 – What is it and How to set it up?

There are many different solutions available to load balance applications. It can be based on separate hardware appliances, virtual appliances or system inbuilt method such as NLB (Network Load Balancer). However, there are few common challenges on these environments. • If its third-party solution, additional cost involves for licenses, configuration and maintenance &bull…
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Mastering Active Directory – 3rd Edition

Step-by-Step Guide: How to sync Custom Active Directory Attributes to Azure AD?

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Active Directory Replication Status Review Using PowerShell

Data Replication is crucial for healthy Active Directory Environment. There are different ways to check status of replication. In this article I am going to explain how you can check status of domain replication using PowerShell. For a given domain controller we can find its inbound replication partners using, Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target REBEL-SRV01.rebeladmin.com Above command…
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Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows Part 02 - How to synchronize value for employeeHireDate attribute from on-premises Active Directory ?

Step-by-Step Guide : Automate JML(Joiners/Movers/Leavers) process with Microsoft Entra lifecycle workflows