Category: Entra Connect

• On Connect Woes & Broken AD Links

  I woke up this morning to an email that read: Password Hash Synchronization heartbeat was skipped in last 120 minutes. While this happens for no apparent reason from time to time, I logged in four hours after the email came in and noticed the issue had not been resolved. I went to log into my…

  Mitch Garvis

  November 28, 2025

  Active Directory, Entra Connect, Entra ID, Troubleshooting, Trust Relationship

  life, technology, Windows

• 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

• 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