Windows Azure, the flexible and open cloud, is a step ahead by Microsoft in the cloud business. We have recently received the Windows Azure Active Directory, which industry analysts are suggesting to ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article, both in the July print issue and online, erroneously described how to connect an on-premise instance of Windows Server Active Directory to Windows ...

Microsoft is continuing its Windows Azure management improvements. The improvements are basic, and follow from Microsoft's addition of federation capabilities between Windows Azure and Windows Server, ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its long-lived and much-loved identity and access management service Azure Active Directory is being rebranded, and will henceforth be known as Microsoft Entra ID.

Microsoft finally is starting to share publicly its high-level cloud-centric identity management plans, as my ZDNet blogging colleague John Fontana noted last week. That means the semi-mysterious ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced additional progress in its latest preview release of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), which is the company's cloud-based identity service. The developer preview ...

In the coming months, Windows users and partners are going to be hearing a lot more about Windows Azure Active Directory, the "conceptual equivalent" of Microsoft's Active Directory directory service ...

Microsoft introduced new secure default settings dubbed 'Security Defaults' to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now available for all license levels, including trial tenants. Since introducing the ...

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.

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Everyone knows by now that Microsoft is getting into the cloud business. But for a long time one of the biggest obstacles to corporate customers joining Microsoft on that move was the lack of an ...