Aug 11, 2016
· 1 minute read
azure
Glossary
| AAD | Azure Active Directory |
| AD | On premise Active Drectory |
This is placeholder for notes relating to AAD and links to other more in depth articles.
For access to your AAD apps you could go the Windows Azure site or the more useful portal which has the benefit of a) having a shorter and more catchy URL and b) having individual app’s for Office.
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Aug 11, 2016
· 6 minute read
websso
We had previously made use of the free Azure AD included with our clients Office 365 (E3) subscription and installed Azure AD Sync from out on premise AD to Azure.
Out of the box, Azure AD supports applications and it is capable of support SSO to non-microsoft app’s.
The most simple way is password SSO where an administrator or the user enters their credentials for a 3rd party app which are then stored securely by Microsoft.
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Aug 10, 2016
· 2 minute read
powershelloffice365azure
There can be a problem with Azure Active Directory (AD) Connect when it first synchronises on premise AD with Office 365.
If a user in local AD does not have an email address defined (that matches O365) then their primary email address will change to tenant-name.onmicrosoft.com.
This issue is described in an excellent post from Jaap Wesselius.
The only effect noticed is that the onmicrosoft.com email address is used as the From address when emails are sent from Outlook (client or OWA).
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Jun 10, 2016
· 1 minute read
linux
It’s always the simple things.
Why wouldn’t my cp overwrite the target files?
More than likely because there is an alias for cp which forces an interactive cp:
# alias alias cp='cp -i' Now you can either remove the alias or temporarily suspend it:
## Remove the alias unalias cp ## Or just suspend it by prefixing the command with \ \cp source target
May 20, 2016
· 2 minute read
web
The US Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Unfortunately I found myself learning about this today as I stumbled across a domain pointing to a complete copy of a site I support.
This came to light during routine monitoring when I noticed traffic against a 2015 event page. While the 2015 event page still existed all traffic should have been going to the 2016 event page.
After some digging I found that the traffic was originating from a domain neither me nor my colleagues were aware of.
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