Office 365 customers can use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for free, although some of its capabilities entail paying for subscription costs. Office 365 has its own local directory. There's no ...

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International, a fictitious company, and their journey toward a hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure. JABB has now divided ...

With the final release of Windows 10, the use of traditional Active Directory may be waning, and Azure AD on the rise. Here are some security concerns that need to be addressed when making the switch.

This is not a new issue. I can remember teaching eager students 20 years ago about forest trust in Active Directory and all the options that were available for controlling which users had access to ...

Microsoft this week announced coming Azure Active Directory management improvements designed to make things a little easier for IT pros. One of the improvements is a new software feature, now at ...

Microsoft has outlined how Windows 10 will be used with Azure Active Directory and the premises-based AD. While Active Directory has been around for about 15 years, mobile device use and the ...