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Office 365 Identity in hybrid Office 365 deployments

Paul Andrew, author for one of the new Office 365 blogs, describeds how customers can use 3rd party vendors for user federation in hybrid Office 365 deployments. A big focus here is how Microsoft is streamlining certification of vendors who wish to deliver 3rd party federated identity providers. Current providers

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Active Directory Best Practice Avoid Reversible Encryption

Just say no to Storing Passwords with Reversible Encryption There are several dozen settings settings within Active Directory that if used can weaken security and open your environment to the threat of compromise. The Store password using reversible encryption option is one of those settings. Normally when a password is

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Disable Active Directory Group

How to disable Active Directory Groups The ability to an Disable Active Directory Group is completely missing from Active Directory. Cayosoft’s Free Suspend Tool will allow effectively disable AD groups. “Disabling” groups is preferable to deleting the group because the group SID (Security ID) is retained for auditing and management purposes,

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Top 10 Security Myths from Gartner

Top 10 Security Myths from Gartner “It won’t happend to me was the #1 myth in Gartner’s Top-10 Myths IT security. Most security experts agree that IT should prepare as if a security breach is an eventually rather than a mere possibility. In Summary It won’t happen to me. IT

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