Microsoft announced several Azure Active Directory enhancements at its Ignite conference this week, including Microsoft Authenticator use with the free Azure AD plan and a new Azure AD Cloud ...

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) now allows admins to issue time-limited passcodes that can be used to register new passwordless authentication methods, during Windows onboarding, or to recover ...

Now generally available, SQL Server 2022's feature set brings it closer to parity with Azure SQL. Here are the biggest additions to Microsoft's RDBMS software you need to know. At the PASS Community ...

Shops that want the benefits of Microsoft's Azure public cloud, but still want to maintain local control of authentication, will soon have a new option. Microsoft announced a preview of a new Azure ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

Your traditional RADIUS infrastructure can get a new life -- and expanded multi-factor authentication functionality -- with some assistance from the cloud. Microsoft provides multi-factor ...

A critical combination of legacy components could have allowed complete access to the Microsoft Entra ID tenant of every company in the world. Microsoft has fixed an issue that caused Entra ID DNS ...

On September 28 and September 29 this week, a number of Microsoft customers worldwide were impacted by a cascading series of problems resulting in many being unable to access their Microsoft apps and ...

The latest move will enable MFA as the default security setting even for older Azure accounts. Microsoft is taking a more aggressive step to try to protect users of Azure Active Directory from account ...

The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You’re probably accustomed to using longstanding database fea­tures to secure your ...