Active Directory Blog

Howdy folks, More cool news to share! Just this week we've turned on a preview of group management capabilities for directory administrators. This is another free capability for Windows Azure Active Directory. Admins can now add, delete, and manage...

Howdy folks, A lot of you have been asking in email and our blog forums about how to figure out which apps are pre-integrated with Windows Azure AD. With our release last week, we've turned on a public facing version of our Application Gallery where...

Howdy folks, Many of you who read this blog are already familiar with our GraphAPI - it's a RESTful cloud API based on the OData 2.0 standard . The GraphAPI is the best and easiest way to programmatically and securely access the wealth of data that...

Howdy folks! It's a BIG day here in the Active Directory team. As ScottGu announced in his blog post , we've just GA'd the Application Access Enhancements for Windows Azure Active Directory. This is a HUGE milestone for us on our path to delivering...

Howdy folks! If you have been following our blog posts and/or have been exploring Windows Azure Active Directory , you've probably read about how you can use it to connect your organization's on-premises Windows Server Active Directory identities to...

Howdy folks, One of the big requests we've had from developers and administrator is to have an option to create multiple Windows Azure Active Directories that they can use for development and test purposes, or because they want to have separate directories...

Howdy folks, Just about 2 weeks back, ScottGu announced the general availability of Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication on his blog . We've seen a LOT of interest in this service and have even closed several large enterprise deals since we announced...

Howdy folks! Back in August I blogged about some new capabilities that we turned on in preview that will simplify managing access to many popular SaaS applications. Today I want to give you an update on our plans and also share some data demonstrating...

Chris Risner in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism team just published a great blog post walking step by step through using Azure AD to access secured resources from iOS and Android devices including source code examples (hosted on Github)...

Howdy folks, It is a great pleasure to be able let you know that v1 of the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) for .NET has reached General Availability! You can add the library to your projects directly from Visual Studio (search for ADAL...

Hi folks, I'm Eran Dvir, a lead program manager in Active Directory; in a previous post I described how to quickly access our new application access enhancements in Windows Azure Active Directory. In this post I wanted to extend that by explaining...

Howdy folks, Today I'm blogging about some exciting news from a part of the Active Directory team that we haven't talked about much yet – our Rights Management Service (RMS) team. Just a few hours ago, our RMS team turned on the public preview...

Howdy folks, Those of you who follow our blog know that last month we turned on a preview of a new set of enhancements to Windows Azure AD which greatly simplify the job of managing access to a set of popular SaaS applications. This month we've...

Howdy folks, Happy Monday! We are opening the week with some good news. Friday we released a refresh of the preview of our developer libraries for .NET! You can find the NuGet package here . The most obvious change in this refresh is that we...

Hi, I’m Samuel Devasahayam (you can call me ‘Sam’) and I am a lead program manager in the Active Directory team responsible for Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) In prior posts, you read how Active Directory in Windows...

Howdy folks, Many of you have already noticed that we've relocated our blog from MSDN to TechNet and combined it with the existing AD blog on TechNet. We decided to make this changeover to avoid the confusion of having multiple AD blogs and because...

Howdy folks, Today I want to tell you about some a new set of developer preview features we've recently added to Windows Azure AD. With these updates, you can now use Windows Azure AD to secure access between smart client apps and the backend web API...

Hello folks. This is Uday Hegde from the Active Directory product team at Microsoft. I'm the Group Program Manager in Alex Simons' team who is responsible for Windows Server Active Directory. Hopefully by now, you've downloaded your copy of the preview...

Hello folks. This is Uday Hegde from the Active Directory product team at Microsoft. I’m the Group Program Manager responsible for Windows Server Active Directory. Hopefully by now, you've downloaded your copy of the preview build of Windows...

Today I'm thrilled to be able to share the new application access enhancements we've just addded to Windows Azure Active Directory that are now available in preview. Starting today you can experience these enhancements which include: Pre-integrated...

Howdy folks, Today's post is a deep dive on some of the cool new capabilities in our developer tools and frameworks that we announced today. Working with the ASP.NET and Visual Studio teams, we've made some big enhancements that make it easy for developers...

In April 2013, we made Windows Azure Active Directory generally available to businesses and cloud application developers for use in production environments. Since then the ACS team has been asked: “What is the future of ACS?” It is our...

Howdy folks, Last week I blogged about the preview of our new multi-factor authentication service and shared information on how to enable it for use with your Windows Azure Active Directory. Since then, I received a number of questions from developers...

Howdy folks, Happy Friday! With the launch of our preview version of Active Authentication, it's been a fun week in the Active Directory team. But before we head out for Father's day BBQ's, I wanted to let you know about two additional changes we’ve...

Howdy folks, Today we've got some pretty cool news! We've just released the preview of our new Windows Azure Active Authenticaton service. A few months ago we showed you how to enable multi-factor authentication for your Azure AD Global Admins . With...