If you’re here, you have at least some questions around Azure Active Directory—a.k.a. AAD / Azure AD. As the possible winner for the “Worst-Named Microsoft Service” award, there is no shame if you’re not completely clear on what AAD is, how it’s supposed to be used, and what it isn’t. We’re going to take a …
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Federation enables a more centralized identity model that can be selectively shared across disparate domains and allows an end user to create, maintain, and control a singular identity. Federated Identity as a concept is built on top of the OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 standards. This article assumes that the reader has a base …
SCIM, or the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management, is a normalized set of HTTP-based protocols and schemas utilized to provision, manage, and deprovision users between disparate service providers. Put another way, SCIM is designed to enable many third-party services to share profile details, enabling a more feature-rich SSO experience. The concepts of Modern Authentication enable …
The technical and logistical pros and cons of moving your Citrix CVAD environments to the Long Term Service Release branch. What is an LTSR? One of the reasons we at Alchemy love to partner with Citrix is that they offer their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) platform in a Long Term Service Release …
What you need to know: To ensure that Microsoft meets performance expectations, they are updating the supported versions of Outlook for Windows that can connect to Microsoft 365 services. Starting November 1, 2021, the following versions of Outlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will not be able to connect with …
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Modern Authentication is typically not a single solution, but a set of modern, universally accepted standards and protocols that identify industry best practices. These standards include protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Web Services Federation (WS-Federation or WS-Fed), OAuth 2.0, or Open ID Connect (OIDC). These protocols and standards have replaced legacy authentication …
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Azure functions now support authentication with a custom OpenID Connect provider, though this is in Preview. This is a quick set of documentation on how to integrate a new Azure Function with your Okta configuration. For more help, or to migrate your existing functions to Okta, do not hesitate to reach out to info@alchemytechgroup.com. Create …
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A topic we often see overlooked or misunderstood within Ivanti Environment Manager Personalization is the built-in cleanup tasks relating to user profiles and their retention within the personalization database. Over time in a living production environment, we expect to see some user accounts become inactive and no longer needed. We also expect application personalization includes …
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I’ve been asked this question many times recently, so it felt like a good time to lay out a few of the reasons this area of security continues to grow in importance for businesses. While there are many reasons that can be included, I want to focus on four that are relevant across so many …
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In the vast majority of UWM deployments, the default security settings are rarely changed beyond adding a single, global administrative group. This is usually because there is only a small core team managing the product, so sandboxing peoples’ capabilities is not usually required. However maybe there is a contractor assisting with a larger effort. Or …
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With a global pandemic commanding the attention of mainstream media, board rooms, break rooms, and webinars; many are overlooking another constant concern. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery should be an extension of operations, and receive heightened seasonal interest from those of us on the Gulf and Atlantic Coast. With tropical system activity increasing, I felt …
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Alchemy Tech Group has helped many of our customers address the challenges of COVID19 and we’ve identified common areas that need attention post deployment or expansion of WFH solutions. Here are 8 work from home challenges that continue to surface and Alchemy’s advice on how to remediate: 1. We relaxed some security policies in the …
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Our Remote Workforce experts have compiled a list of best practices to help organizations who are rapidly building or expanding work from home capabilities. These best practices address the following concepts: Remote Access Be sure to include multi-factor authentication (MFA) as you rapidly expand remote access. VPNs – Include MFA and review access control lists (ACLs) …
If you do need to find your Office 365 tenant name, it’s pretty easy. Choose one of the following procedures. Office 365 Admin Center, if you have global admin rights Log in to your Office 365 Admin Center as an administrator. Under Setup click on Domains (or just click here). Find a domain which ends …
If you’re familiar with Ivanti’s Environment Manager Policy product, you’re probably familiar with its best uses – acting as the user or system inside the local session, on the local endpoint. It excels at conditionally modifying and configuring the user’s present session, within the confines of the machine. What it has never been fantastic at …
How to use Okta, Citrix Gateway, and Workspace app for a uniform SAML based single sign-on user experience By: Jason Samuel Several months ago I posted on Twitter how you can use on-premises or cloud IaaS hosted Citrix Gateway/NetScaler Gateway, Workspace app/Receiver, and Okta as your identity provider (IdP) with SAML 2.0 authentication for full …
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If you have ever been in the position of needing to know how and what an application is doing, without yourself having any knowledge of said application, then ProcMon is the discovery tool for you.
Chocolatey is a PowerShell-driven package manager for Windows. In essence, it is a local agent and remote library (repository) that can be used to deploy and manage software installations (packages) on windows machines.
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