James Evans | EduTech
Sr. Embedded Escalation Engineer - Azure Active Directory Embedded Engineering Team
Script - Bulk Assign Users to Azure AD SaaS Applications
Today we present a convenient PowerShell module which allows management of User Assignments to Azure...
Author: Jas Suri Date: 12/20/2016
Azure AD Synchronized Users with Password Sync are unable to change password
If you have recently started to here reports of users not being able to change there Azure AD /...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 07/03/2016
Microsoft Azure B2B - Visual Studio Online
I am sure that you have heard that the Azure Active Directory Team have been hard at work and...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 09/29/2015
Microsoft Health and Microsoft Band comes to the U.K.
I am sure many of you out there have been waiting for the Microsoft Band to come to the UK! Today,...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/17/2015
Azure Enterprise Agreement Guidance - using your existing work accounts (AAD) as oppose to Microsoft Accounts (MSA)...
As Microsoft Azure grows I am sure there are many of you out there whom may have already or are in...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/16/2015
Changes to Azure AD Authentication Flows - Simplicity & Consistency
I thought I would post this up here for the regular readers, a colleague of mine whom is a Program...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/07/2015
unable to verify domain name - Office 365 / Azure AD
I just wanted to a quick article about issues that I see come up quite often where you are unable to...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/07/2015
Script: - Bulk Assign Users to SaaS Application using Graph API & ADAL
Assigning users permissions to access to azure active directory SaaS Applications can be quite a...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/04/2015
Script: - PowerShell Script to Connect to all Microsoft Online Services using one function!
Feedback that we hear every now and again,Is how much it can be a pain for IT Admins whom need to...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/04/2015
Azure AD Premium – Now Available via Direct Purchase
For those of you whom have been itching to get your hands on to Azure AD Premium Licenses but would...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/08/2015
Azure AD Application Proxy – Publish Internal Applications Externally Secure, No Firewall Req.
This has been an new feature that I have been meaning to post about for some time now, It recently...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/08/2015
Azure AD Custom SaaS Applications for any 3rd party service.
It’s been a while since i last posted an article and that is because it’s been a rather busy past...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/08/2015
Microsoft Azure Weekly - Getting Started with Azure
I will be presenting the Azure Weekly :- Getting Started with Azure webinar on the 19th August 2014...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 07/27/2014
Sign-Up for Microsoft Azure without Using a Credit Card ($0 Subscription)
Article Update: Customers are encourage to manage there Azure Active Directory using the new...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 07/25/2014
Microsoft Office 365 Public Roadmap – Released
This is something that I am sure many of you are going to be interesting and monitoring very closely...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/19/2014
Office 365 AD FS Token Signing Certificates Rollover & Trust Properties
Active Directory Federation Services – Token Signing Certificates still continues to be something...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/19/2014
Microsoft Azure How Subscription Administrators & Directory Administrators Differ
If you are new to Microsoft Azure you may find that sometimes it’s some what difficult to determine...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/18/2014
ADFS Performance Statistics & NLB Requirements
This is something that I get asked quite a lot in terms of gathering performance metrics for AD FS...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/06/2014
Microsoft @ EduGeek Conference 2014 (EDIT) - Azure AD & Office 365 Updates
I had the pleasure of presenting at the EduGeek Conference 2014 in Preston where I gave a brief...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/04/2014
How to Delete Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD)
A few days ago an update was made to Windows Azure Active Directory part of Microsoft Azure, and I...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 05/12/2014
Alternate Login IDs with Azure Active Directory
Microsoft recently announced support for alternative Login IDs with Azure Active Directory, those of...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 04/28/2014
Preview - Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync (AADSync)
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync is something that I am sure many of you are going to be...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 04/16/2014
Windows Azure Active Directory & Application Integration Single Sign-On
Windows Azure is growing rapidly on a daily basis, and as more organizations look into reducing...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/14/2014
Link Microsoft Office 365 Organization Account to Windows Azure Subscription
Are you finding it irritating having to keep logging out of your Office 365 Administration Portal to...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/16/2014
Microsoft Office 365 – Service Request Emails Incorrect Recipients
I am noticing of late that people are asking questions regarding the alternative email behaviour for...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/15/2014
Set Multi-factor Authentication for Microsoft Office 365
- I have updated this post to reflect information since MFA went into General Availability *...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 10/12/2013
Using Office 365 for File Storage – SkyDrive Pro
Microsoft Launched SkyDrive Pro in Wave 15 of Office 365 which allowed all new adopters of the cloud...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 10/09/2013
Office 365 – Identity Scenario Adoption Approach
Microsoft Office 365 is getting better every day, and every day we get even more people sign-up to...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 10/07/2013
Configure Server 2012 CA for Smartcard Authentication
In this article I am going to walkthrough how to configure your internal certificate authority...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 10/06/2013
Manage Hyper-V Server 2012 from Windows 8 and 8.1 in Workgroup
I came across an annoying issue somewhat a few weeks ago when I thought to remotely manager my...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 09/10/2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Installation & Design
Over the past couple of months I had to spend some time learning about Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 09/10/2013
Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Mailbox Size is now 50GB Per User!
For those of you who may not already be aware, on the 29th August Microsoft announced the increase...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 09/03/2013
New enhancements for Windows Azure Infrastructure Services and Web Sites, and added new BizTalk Services
This is an update for new and existing customers of Windows Azure, Today Microsoft released new...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 06/03/2013
Windows Azure - Setup AD Federation Services & DirSync for Office 365
As per my previous blog post which explained how to setup Windows Azure Networks, Storage and...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 05/30/2013
Windows Azure - Setup Network, Storage & Virtual Machine
I have finally found the time to start writing some posts about Windows Azure and with some of the...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 05/28/2013
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Cumulative Update April 2013
Microsoft Support has released a cumulative update for Lync 2010, which includes a fix for the...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 04/11/2013
Office 365 E15 Mailbox Message is not updated on the BlackBerry device
If you use Blackberry Business Cloud Services with Office 365 you may find that you have problems...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 04/09/2013
Setup AD Federation Services with Office 365
I have been meaning to post this up for sometime now but just have not got around to it and with the...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/13/2013
Lync 2013 Mobile Apps Now Available
For those of you who have deployed Lync Server 2013 On-Premise or Online you have probably been...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 03/12/2013
Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Cumulative Update Feb 2013 (CU1)
Microsoft have now released the latest updates for Lync Server 2013, which some of us have been...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/27/2013
Cisco VPN Client not working with Windows 8
For those of you running Windows 8 and wish to use the Cisco VPN Client you may find that it doesn't...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/27/2013
Sign into OCS 2007/R2 using Lync 2013 Desktop Client (Win 8)
The Lync 2013 Desktop client does not technically support OCS 2007/R2 but if you have not yet...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/27/2013
Office 365 Wave 15 (2013) Released to Education & Businesses
The New Release of Office 365 for Education, Small - Medium Businesses & Enterprises is...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/27/2013
Lync 2013 Conference San Diego Keynote
For those of you whom watch the Lync Server space, or are interested in adopting Lync in your...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/23/2013
Office 365 - Wave 15 Virtual Launch Event
For those of you that may not be aware Microsoft launch the next wave of Office 365 on the 27th...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/21/2013
Next Wave of Microsoft Technologies for Office 365
Wednesday 27th February 2013 - The Next Wave comes to Office 365! Since the release of the next wave...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 02/07/2013
How to deploy Microsoft Lync Phone - Polycom CX500/600/3000 Updates
Microsoft have now released the UC Updates for January 2013 and so I thought I would use this chance...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/26/2013
Microsoft Lync 2013 Presence not showing in Outlook when using Exchange 2010
Finally I have found some time to write this up, I have not seen much information about this...
Author: James Evans - MSFT Date: 01/17/2013