Microsoft Hosted Active Directory

Today we've released improvements to Windows Azure, which include: Active Directory: Full distribution of Windows Azure AD, now available for product use. Service Backup: This new service can provide a secure offsite backup of Windows servers in the cloud. Web site: Enhancements to monitoring and diagnostics all of these improvements are now available directly (note: Some services are still in the preview version), the details of these improvements are as follows: Active Directory: Announcing full distribution I am excited to ...

Microsoft has been promoting its Azure cloud services to 5,000 attendees at Microsoft's 2013-Year Management Summit this week, encouraging them to use the system for a variety of specific tasks, while Microsoft cautions that Azure is better suited to a mature hybrid cloud framework. Over time, the hybrid cloud framework may be more appealing. In a speech to the conference, Microsoft announced that users can now access managed resources using the Active Directory in the Azure cloud. Microsoft also said it has expanded the coverage of its System Center management platform to provide support in azure ...

Whether you agree or not, Microsoft is a well-deserved enterprise identification standard. In addition to support for a variety of standard protocols, Microsoft's product suite includes certificate Server, SCCM, Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, and core Windows logins ) has always been the enterprise identification standard. But that will change as companies move to the cloud. If you don't want to manage your own application services ...

Last week, Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint released a beta release that introduced several great improvements, including a batch of developer-specific improvements. Developers can now use ASP.net (including asp.net web Forms and current aps.net MVC) to create Web applications to extend SharePoint functionality, and to use. NET The new workflow framework in 4.5 to edit the custom workflow to extend SharePoint. ...

A variety of Windows Azure services can help you extend application security to the cloud. There are three services that provide identity mapping between multiple providers, connections between internally deployed data centers, and application features that send messages to each other, regardless of where the application is located. With Windows Azure Active Directory, you can create a single sign-on application on your application by proxy authentication for applications located in the cloud ...

"Editor's note" at the end of last year, US big retailer Target was exposed to hackers, causing up to 40 million credit cards and 70 million of consumers ' personal information stolen by hackers, Aorato's researchers and their team recorded all the tools attackers used to attack target. It also describes how an attacker penetrates a retailer, spreads within its network, and eventually grabs credit card data from a POS system. The following is the original: A new study by security company Aorato shows that personally identifiable information (PII) and credit and debit card data are available at the beginning of the year ...

E-mail is arguably the easiest to migrate to the cloud, even though some CIOs (CIO) have given the email to Microsoft, according to a recent study published by Forrester Research, a market research firm. 　　Third-party cloud-based e-mail providers such as IBM and Google remain hesitant. 　　Half of the 834 SME and big-business IT decision makers surveyed in the report said they had no interest in applying hosted e-mail. However, according to Forrester, the part of a company I ...

Before moving any data center to cloud computing or Virtual desktop infrastructure, it is important to analyze and determine the rationale and pros and cons of using these new technologies first. One of the most important steps is to fully understand the scope of application and the pros and cons of both technologies. If a company with a private cloud has only a subset of end-users who have access to a handful of applications residing in the cloud, it is possible that it does not have to accept full desktop services for those users. Using published application technologies, such as Citrix's XenApp, will help save time and money ...

Author information: This article is a joint work by Madhan Arumugam and Guy Bowerman of the SQL Server Cloud infrastructure team. Where SQL data is hosted, Windows Azure gives you two choices, SQL Server on the VM (hereinafter referred to as SQL/VM) and Windows Azure SQL database (hereinafter referred to as SQL DB). SQL/VM and SQ ...

The field of information security hides a dark secret from us: We are fighting a losing war and losing our position at an alarming rate in the form of data leaks. This is not because we are not trying to protect the assets of the enterprise, but because it is a simple fact: the attackers have more time and tools to attack than our defenses. Some enterprises simply do not have enough money to invest in the resources needed for information security programs, while others try to deploy "half-baked" information security programs to meet compliance requirements with minimal personnel and budgets. Visible, we are fighting a war and ...