A Decade of Sharing, A New Era of Innovation Reflecting on 10 years and stepping into the future of MSB365. Time flies when you are troubleshooting, configuring, and sharing knowledge. Looking back at the past 10 years, it feels like only yesterday that we hit the “Publish” button for the very first time. Since then, […]
Prolog There are several ways to create a Certificate request (CSR) for SSL Certificates. There are a large number of tools that can help or assist you in this process. Personally, I like to use PowerShell for this. There is a module in my Exchange Suite which you can download HERE and create a CSR […]
It is already some time ago that I have posted a PowerShell script to the community. So I thought why not share one of the latest ones I have written. This time it is about installing ADFS. In the past I have written some articles about ADFS like: MFA with MS Auth. App for […]
As far we know until today, the best solution form the Microsoft point of view is, to use ADFS to authenticate on-premises users for cloud services such as Azure or Office 365. This is working very well and there are many articles about how to configure the clams etc. can be found in internet and […]
In all projects in which I am consulting with my customers, most of the questions are about the functionality of ADFS and the cloud identity. In one of my Articles I have described, how we have to configure ADFS for Office 365. In this article I have also shown the picture below, how the sign-on progress […]
This week, I was on a technical board and had to explain to customers on the level of CTO (chief technical officer) how a hybrid Exchange environment works and how it has to be installed. That is why I cached the moment to write this article, which contains the main points of my presentation. The […]
The standard setting of Azure instance with ADFS is well known, standardized and implemented in the field. We use an ADFS environment to create a federation to the Azure AD and decide which things we want to sync by Azure connect and which not. The permission handling for resource groups is managed by RBAC-Roles. The […]
In one of my last articles, I wrote about installing, customizing and about the functionality of the ADFS servers. Today I want to write about the ADFS / Azure Multi-Factor Authentication server (MFA). In Q2 of the last year Microsoft announced an app called “Microsoft Authenticator”. The functionality is similar to Google’s authentication App “Google […]
Almost everyone is using Cloud services, there are a lot of them like Azure, Office 365, G-Suite, Dropbox, AWS. Some of them we are using for private, but the most of it for our daily business. There is a smooth way Microsoft offers us to be able to use single sign-on (SSO) on the most […]
As Web Application Proxy is a standard Windows Server role service, you can use many Windows Server PowerShell tools to control Web Application Proxy: Shows Web Application Proxy Windows services status Get-Service’appproxysvc’,’appproxyctrl’,’adfssrv’|fl-property* Shows the configuration of Web Application Proxy Windows service Get-WmiObject-ClassWin32_Service-PropertyStartMode-Filter”Name=’appproxysvc’” Get Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results for the Remote Access role Invoke-BpaModel Microsoft/Windows/RemoteAccessServer […]
About the way how you can deploy an ADFS Infrastructure I have already described here and more about ADFS you can find in the Microsoft Technet Aricles here or in the Technet Blog here . But what about a SAAS for your Customers if you don’t want, that they know each other? Normaly you use a […]
Creating SSL Certificate Requests needs a lot of Time, how to create a Request without IIS I wrote here in my Blog already with this Entry (Create Certificate Request without IIS (ADFS3.0)) But even here you need a lot of time, so the Solution is – PowerShell! Reinout Segers wrote a fantastic Script how to […]
