Category: Entra

• Link ‘Em Up! Connecting on-prem and cloud directories

  In my last artucle, I showed you that an end user could join a Windows client to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) or to Entra ID, but not both. In this article we will install and configure Entra Connect so that we can join our devices to both, so that we can offer the…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 4, 2025

  Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, AzureAD, Entra, Entra Connect, Entra ID

• Domain vs. Entra… or both?

  This will be the first of a multi-part series on configuring and managing device Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Microsoft In the year 2000, Windows 2000 Server was released, and with it came a new era of authentication. Microsoft introduced Active Directory to the world, which would later be known as Active Directory Domain…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 1, 2025

  Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Entra, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Windows 11

• Entra ID Connect: Starting Over

  Because I do not always run my demo environments following industry best practices, I occationally find myself in a situation where things might be… horked. That is to say, my on-prem lab (including the Active Directory domain) gets wiped, and I rebuild it from scratch. It is something that I usually enjoy doing, and until…

  Mitch Garvis

  July 31, 2025

  Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Entra, Entra Connect, Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell

• Failed Intune Enrollment on the HAADJ

  As I rebuilt my lab environment recently I decided to add a component that my previous lab environment did not have… Entra Hybrid Joined workstations. It had been a couple of years since I last installed Entra Connect (far enough back that at the time it was called Azure AD Connect, and the term Hybrid…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 30, 2025

  Azure AD Connect, AzureAD, Entra, Windows Intune

• Conditional Access: Block a Network or a Nation!

  Your company has issued laptops to your employees so that they can work from anywhere. That’s great… until you realize that some of your employees might go on vacation to a country that is not on your government’s Christmas Card list… in fact, you know that your data compliance policy forbids access from those countries.…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 2, 2024

  Cloud, Compliance, Endpoint Security, Entra, Geoblocking, Microsoft 365