Here I describe how I changed the user sign-in method from an (on premise) ADFS installation to the Pass-through authentication with single sign-on enabled.

In 2016 the only possibility for a real single sign on between the on premise AD and the Office 365 / Microsoft Azure was to implement an on premise ADFS infrastructure with a public certificate, what I did for my environment.

Your Visual Studio is connected to Azure with a company account (of domain @gibel.net) then you convert this domain to federated and the login doesn’t work any more. This article describes how to get the connection back!

You can use Windows PowerShell to turn external sharing on or off. Using the SharePoint Online Management Shell, administrators can now enforce new controls over how external users accept invitations. When enabled, the RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount parameter requires external users to accept invitations with the email account with which they originally received the invitation.

In the past 2 years I worked a lot with Office 365 / Azure / Intune and all the “tools and features” which belong to it! So the time came to show my knowledge and pass one of the Office 365 exams!

When you connect to your Office 365 tenant with the PowerShell cmdlet Connect-MsolService

you get a yellow message about a newer MSOL – module. Here I explain, how to update the current PowerShell Module.

A newer “Microsoft Azure” feature is “Azure AD Connect Health”  which allows monitoring your on-premise ADFS (ActiveDirectoryFederationServices) infrastructure from the Microsoft Azure preview portal. For this you need to  install an agent on all your on-prem ADFS(+proxy) Servers.

At the end of the Azure Active Directory Sync configuration Wizard you have a  “Synchronize your directories now” checkbox. When you have this box activated, ALL user accounts from your on premise AD are synchronized to the cloud. This article shows you, how you can select the OU’s with the user’s to synchronize first!

This blog entry is written (as an exception!) in German because people in English speaking countries shouldn't have this problem! Es geht hier um die richtigen Spracheinstellungen (im Browser und im online Bestelldialog) damit die SharePoint Sites in der richtigen Sprache und damit mit den richtigen Library- und Listennamen angelegt werden und nachträglich nicht Probleme mit Umlauten entstehen!

With Windows Azure IAAS you can easily create VM’s in the cloud. The easiest way to access them is to build a cross-premises  connection between your local (on premises) and the Azure network. You can do this by a site to site VPN connection. On the Azure side you have a VPN endpoint. On your side you can use TMG 2010 as your local endpoint.