Tutorials
Looking for tutorials for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365? You can find all our tutorials in this archive.
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Exchange Online: Mail encryption with Information Rights Management (IRM)
Confidential information such as contracts, financial reports, employee or customer data is often exchanged via email. These emails are mostly not encrypted. With Information Rights Management (IRM), encrypted emails can be sent and received between people inside and outside your organization. Sent emails and their replies are encrypted automatically with transport rules or manually from Exchange Online email client (Outlook and Outlook.com). Information Rights Management (IRM) ensures that only intended recipients can open and read the message. It is also possible to prevent emails from being forwarded, printed or parts of them copied. Message encryption works with Outlook, Outlook.com, Gmail and many other popular email services.
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Installation and Configuration of Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync is an advanced synchronization solution that enables seamless integration of objects from Active Directory into Microsoft Entra ID. This technology simplifies synchronization by orchestrating the deployment of Active Directory objects within Microsoft Entra ID in the Microsoft Cloud Services. For the on-premises infrastructure, only the installation of a lightweight agent is required, reducing complexity and enhancing efficiency.
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Passwordless Sign In with Microsoft Authenticator App
Passwordless sign in with the Microsoft Authenticator App makes sign in to Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud services more secure and convenient for the user. The typing of a password is replaced by a modern method, e.g. the Microsoft Authenticator app. Passwordless sign-in to cloud apps can be achieved using various methods: For a significant increase of identities security, the cost-effective variant with the Microsoft Authenticator App is the best choice.
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Backup and Restore Microsoft Authenticator App
The Microsoft Authenticator App is a key component of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. When switching to a new smartphone or in the event of device loss, the question often arises: how can the Microsoft Authenticator App, including all configured accounts, be reliably restored without having to set up each login from scratch?This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to securely back up the Microsoft Authenticator App and seamlessly transfer it to a new device, whether running iOS or Android. This ensures continued access to protected applications without disruption.
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Microsoft Entra: Roll Over Kerberos Decryption Key
With Seamless Single Sign-On (Seamless SSO), users can leverage the same credentials for both on-premises and cloud-based services. Repeated authentication prompts between these environments are eliminated, as authentication data is automatically exchanged between Active Directory and Microsoft Entra. As part of the Seamless SSO configuration, a computer account named AZUREADSSOACC is created in the on-premises Active Directory. For security reasons, Microsoft recommends rotating the associated Kerberos decryption key every 30 days.