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Choose the right sign-in option to connect to Azure AD & Office 365

Howdy folks! Azure AD connects organization of all sizes to Office 365 and other SaaS applications...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 06/13/2017

Restore your AD FS farm the easy way!

Howdy folks! Today, I wanted to talk about a new way to easily backup and restore your ADFS farm. As...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2016

ADFS: Certificate Authentication with Azure AD & Office 365

Howdy folks! Azure AD just announced GA support for certificate authentication in this blog post!...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 07/19/2016

Sync Insights now available in Azure AD Connect Health

Howdy folks, We announced Azure AD Connect Health for sync recently in this blog post. It provides...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2015

Azure AD Connect Health now supports RBAC for delegated access!

Howdy folks! This is a short post. A key ask from our customers using Connect Health is to NOT...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2015

Azure AD Connect Health - Top Users with failed username password logins for ADFS

[Update 11/3/2016: Added more information on IP address] Hello! I recently blogged about Alerts in...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2015

Understanding Alerts in Azure AD Connect Health

Howdy folks! Today, I thought I’d talk about the alert system in Azure AD Connect Health. Azure AD...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2015

Office Modern Auth & ADFS: Making it work

Howdy folks, I've worked with a few customers now who have had a few issues when using Office Modern...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 06/05/2015

ADFS 2012 R2 now supports Password Change (not reset) across all devices

Howdy everyone! Today I’m going to blog about password change feature in ADFS. This is not a...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2015

Best practices for establishing federation trust between two organizations.

Hi, Recently, I saw a few questions on best practices for establishing federation trusts. I've...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2015

Introducing Sam

Hi, I'm Samuel Devasahayam, a lead Program Manager in the Active Directory team at Microsoft. I've...

Author: Samuel Devasahayam [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2015