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 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 has released a preview of new group management capabilities for Windows Azure Active Directory (AD), further narrowing the features gap between the on-premise and cloud-based implementations ...

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 isn't just reimagining Windows and reimaginging tablets. It's also reimagining Active Directory in the form of the recently (officially) unveiled Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). In a ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that they have removed the 16 character Azure Active Directory password limit and admins can now use up to a maximum of 256 characters. This aligns the passwords lengths with ...

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Windows Azure Active Directory has processed more than 200 billion authentications for Microsoft services in two years, and it now processes an average of 4.7 billion logins a week, the company ...

Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no ...