Azure, Office 365, Technology

7. Understanding SSO, PHS, PTA & ADFS SAML Identity Strategies and Concepts

Evaluating Requirements and Solutions – Sync for PHS, PTA and ADFS SAML Federation   Authentication for Hybrid Identity Managed Authentication: Azure AD will handle the authentication locally by using a locally stored hashed version of the password or sends the credentials to an on-premise software agent to be authenticated on the premise by AD DS Federated Authentication: Azure AD redirects…

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Azure, Office 365, Technology

5. Planning for Hybrid Identity Management

Planning for Azure AD/Microsoft 365 Hybrid On-Premise Infrastructure   You can integrate M365 with existing directory services and on premises Exchange Server etc…. You can synchronise and manage user accounts for both environments. You can add password hash synchronisation or SSO so users can logon to both environments with their on premise credentials When integrating with on premise server products…

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Azure, Office 365, Technology

4. Implementing and Managing External Identities

Managing External Collaboration Settings in Azure Active Directory   Business to Business collaboration is about sharing resources Go to Azure AD -> Users -> Users Settings Scroll down and click on “Manage External Users Collaboration settings” From here you can set Guest user settings such as: – Access restrictions: which level of access to resources they have – Guest Invite…

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Office 365, PowerShell, Technology

Exchange Online Migration error: “Target user already has a primary mailbox”

Issue When migrating mailboxes from Exchange On Premise to Exchange Online, it fails with the following error: Target user ‘Users Name’ already has a primary mailbox. Cause Long before we had ever thought about migrating to Exchange Online we had manually created some students in our Office 365 tenant (not using the Azure AD Connect) to give them access to…

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