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Azure AD versus Subscriptions
(Also read, Usage and Insights for Migrating ADFS Apps to AAD) AAD is ABOVE a Subscription. AAD has within it, one or more subscriptions. These subscriptions may be organized into…
AAD Connect and Connect Health – Migrating Identity to Azure
Migrating ADFS Connections to Azure (AAD or AAD B2C) Moving your ADFS connections to Azure is not a trivial task. Also, distinguish between moving the Identities in ADFS (users, )…
AAD as an Identity Provider for AAD B2C
AAD and AAD B2C are two completely separate, independent directories within Azure. There is no overlap in the users in these directories. B2C is typically used to configure customer facing…
How to migrate AD Distribution Lists to Azure AD
What do you need? On-premises server with Azure AD Connect PowerShell Script run from machine connected to domain controller with Active Directory module Use the scripts found here While the…
Why you cannot migrate your on premises AD to Azure AD
AD to Azure AD Migration? There is no actual migration path from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory. AAD is a flat (not hierarchical) structured data store. Hence, you can…
Active Directory Groups and Memberships
Active Directory groups and their memberships - some basic terminology. What is a group? A group is a collection of different Active Directory objects such as user accounts, computer accounts,…
Why AAD B2C ?
One might ask, with AAD already offered on Azure, why was there a need for a separate B2C offering for external customers? The answer is two fold The VOLUME of…
Who Logged in to the GCP Console? And When?
How do I see who logged in and when? (Also see, Monitoring in GCP ) Logs Viewer is one stop shop for viewing all log activity on GCP. Two places…
Custom Roles in GCP
Before we get to custom roles, let us talk about why we need custom roles in GCP (Also read, Service accounts and bindings in GCP). The first use case is…