Just a day after Microsoft announced its new Entra cloud identity services portfolio, one of Entra's core products suffered wobbly performance for more than 12 hours. Microsoft warned that users of ...

The improved federation capabilities in Windows Azure, announced in late November, promise fewer hassles for the numerous enterprises that use Microsoft Active Directory to manage both premises-based ...

Microsoft announced public preview support for FIDO2 security keys in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to provide users with passwordless authentication capabilities, eliminating passwords out of the ...

Microsoft announced that 16 new Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) lower-privileged roles are available today in preview to help admins improve security by decreasing the number of Global ...

Microsoft announced today that Windows Azure's federation capabilities now support single sign-on capabilities in conjunction with the use of Active Directory (AD) on Windows Server. The addition of ...

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 ...

A security team has issued an advisory about an apparent design flaw which allows single-factor brute-force attack on Azure Active Directory. However, Microsoft says that this is by design.

A permissions flaw in Microsoft’s Azure AD Connect software could allow a rogue admin to escalate account privileges and gain unauthorized universal access within a company’s internal network. A ...

The company has added an Azure Authentication Library for .NET to the Developer Preview of its cloud-based identity management service. Microsoft introduced another component to the Developer Preview ...

Windows Azure Active Directory has processed more than 200 billion authentications for Microsoft services in two years, and it now processes an average of 4.7 billion logins a week, the company ...

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Microsoft is once again warning IT pros that both Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) and Azure AD Sync tools will no longer be supported after April 12. Reaching that stage means that no ...