Lukas BeranFor Azure AD Connect synchronized domains, I find it quite common that a customer sets up the synchronization itself, but does...
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How to setup multifactor authentication in Office 365
Multifactor authentication (MFA) in Office 365 is an option how to dramatically improve security of the Office 365 tenant and therefore all users and data. Thanks to multifactor authentication in Office 365 it is not enough to only know user’s password, but each and every login attempt has to be verified via user’s phone [...]
Lukas Beran How to set modern authentication in Office 365
If you want to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Office 365, you need to prepare your tenant first. If you want to use the comfort of signing in using your login and password with no need for application passwords in Outlook and other Office applications, you need modern authentication method in Office 365. You can read more about [...]
Lukas Beran How to configure SSTP VPN on Windows Server
SSTP VPN is modern and secure VPN which allows you to connect even through some firewalls because it uses TCP port 443 which is also for secure http (https). And moreover this VPN is very secure, much more than very popular PPTP which is currently not secure at all. Configure SSTP VPN on Windows Server is very simple and fast. You need [...]
Lukas Beran Transfer and seize of FSMO roles
FSMO roles are five special roles on domain controller, which are vital for the smooth running of AD as a multimaster system, because some of Active Directory features require central authority to which can all domain controllers refer to. These roles are installed automatically and there is normally very little reason to move them, [...]
Lukas Beran Forcing SMB encryption
SMB (Server Message Block), known also as CIFS (Common Internet File System) is network communication protocol for a communication between computer nodes. Primarily is used for a data transfers in a computer network. We know it as network drives (network shares or shared folders). Current version of this protocol is 3.1.1 and has been [...]
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