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Azure Active Directory
Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on.
Videos

0:04:00
3/25/2025, IT Ops Talk
In this video I show how to request a computer certificate from an Active Directory Certificate Services certificate authority. This certificate can be used for many tasks, but in this case I'm...

0:02:08
3/24/2025, IT Ops Talk
A quick tutorial on how to enable Hyper-V Nested Virtualization on Windows Server 2025 and resolving an install error even though processor extensions were properly configured.
➡️ Nested...

0:06:51
3/20/2025, IT Ops Talk
A quick tutorial on how to install and configure Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025
➡️ Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate Certification:...

0:02:34
3/17/2025, IT Ops Talk
A quick tutorial on how to enable and use Active Directory Recycle Bin.
➡️ Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skill Credential:...

0:01:30
3/15/2025, IT Ops Talk
A quick tutorial on how to reset an Active Directory User Account password.
➡️ Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skill Credential:...

0:02:18
3/15/2025, IT Ops Talk
A quick tutorial on creating new Active Directory User Accounts.
➡️ Windows Server 2025 What's New:...

0:09:20
3/11/2025, IT Ops Talk
Learn how to safely remove a failed Active Directory domain controller and clean up any lingering metadata sitting in the AD DS database or DNS.
➡️ AD DS Metadata Cleanup...

0:04:45
3/4/2025, IT Ops Talk
Do you need to raise all the domain functional levels in a forest before raising the forest functional level? The answer surprised me.
In this video I demonstrate that with Windows Server 2025,...

0:03:33
3/3/2025, IT Ops Talk
What you need to know about adding a new child domain to an existing Active Directory Forest
Find out more at:
➡️ Windows Server 2025 What's New:...

0:01:02
2/28/2025, IT Ops Talk
Promoting a Windows Server 2025 Member to Domain Controller requires WS 2016 domain functional level
Though you can join Windows Server 2025 to a Windows Server 2012 R2 functional level domain, you can't promote the member server to domain controller. You must either perform an in-place upgrade...

0:54:56
2/1/2025, SAP on Azure
In episode 226 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we have Martin Raepple with us again -- and this means authentication, principal propagation and identity management. A few months ago Martin had...

0:00:00
1/24/2025, Microsoft Reactor
Azure Cosmos DB is widely recognized for its unmatched scalability and performance among NoSQL cloud databases. However, it often carries the perception of being a costly solution. In this...