Azure servicesMicrosoft Entra ID

Step-by-Step Guide: How to apply security baselines to Windows 10 devices using Microsoft Intune?

Microsoft is releasing security baselines for on-premises Active Directory connected devices using group policies. These are used by many organizations around the globe for decades. Using these security settings, administrators can control the state of the corporate devices and maintain the standards. When we are moving device management to the cloud, we can't use group policy settings as…
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Step-by-Step: Enabling MFA for Azure Administrative Portals via Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management – Part 01 – Azure Subscription Onboarding

Active DirectoryMicrosoft Entra ID

Mastering Active Directory, Second Edition Released!

As most of you were aware, I published my book "Mastering Active Directory" back in, 2017. When I released it, I had my doubts! It was my first book even though I was writing to blogs for many years. But over the last 2 years, I had many positive feedbacks. Thousands of people all around the global read this book. Lots of them requested another book. So Yes! I heard it loud and…
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Step-by-Step: Enabling MFA for Azure Administrative Portals via Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access

Step-by-Step Guide to Azure AD PIM and Conditional Access Integration (Public Preview)

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 DirectoryMicrosoft Technologies

Group Policy: WMI Filters in a nutshell

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters is another method that we can use to filter the group policy target. This method is only can use to filter the computer objects and it based on computer attribute values. As an example, WMI filters can use to filter out different operating system versions, processor architecture (32bit/64bit), Windows server roles, Registry settings, Event id etc.
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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