Microsoft takes another big step towards going passwordless
Microsoft continues its relentless drive to get rid of passwords as sign-in options that enterprise customers use to access Azure Active Directory (AAD) and those consumers use to access Microsoft Accounts on Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs.
Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the... Read more
Microsoft has discontinued two key authentication APIs for Azure Active Directory
This comes after different applications and scripts were put out of commission by June 30th, 2022. Changes in the API might adversely affect applications and Powershell scripts.
After support for Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) and Azure AD Graph API ends, Microsoft customers will... Read more
Microsoft gives a preliminary explanation for Azure trouble
Azure experienced an issue in the Azure Active Directory, which disrupted access to Office 365 apps and Azure Admin Portal for two hours or more for other users. Microsoft apologized for it on Monday, as part of a March 15 “preliminary root cause analysis’ notice, which was an explanation of wh... Read more
Microsoft bets on zero trust using identity, compliance and skills
Microsoft is betting big on the zero-trust, an approach to computer security pioneered by Google. Many updates will be available to customers after an announcement at Ignite 2021. The updates are aimed at offering protection for devices, data, platforms, identities, and clouds.
Zero Trust is a s... Read more
Microsoft brings “not to crack” passwords to Azure AD
Microsoft Azure has raised the character limit for passwords in Azure Active Directory (AD) from 16 to 256 characters. This makes it a lot harder to make brute force hacking attempts succeed.
"Many of you have reminded us that we still had a password limit of 16 characters for accounts created in ... Read more