AzureAD News for the Month!

This month is quite significant for Azure AD with multiple announcements that made most of the customers delighted and this post is curating key ones in a single window with references.

• AzureAD: Certificate based authentication for iOS and Android now in preview! - Most awaited feature that reduces the dependency of tradional authentication method using passwords and moving  towards a secure way of authenticating using Certificates.

• Introducing AzureAD Connect Health for Windows Server AD - AzureAD Connect Health is evolving and now it gives IT admins the ability to monitor the health and performance of their on-premises Windows Server Domain Controllers from the cloud.

• AzureAD Conditional Access: Per app MFA and Network Location based policies are GA! - Most awaited Per app MFA and Location based polices went GA this month, These features were in the Conditional Access public preview and now went to to GA.

• Azure Active Directory B2C is now generally available in North America - Finally Azure AD B2C went GA for North America and soon we can expect this to be expanded to other Geographies and also eager to know the GA of the most awaited B2B.

• The new design for AzureAD MyApps is now in preview! - Based of Customer Feedback Microsoft team has introduced new modern design for Azure MyApps in preview , expected to get GA in Q3 2016.

• Microsoft Authenticator – Coming August 15th! Supports AzureAD & Microsoft acct! - Finally, we have a new Microsoft Authenticatore App on its ways that combines the best parts of previous authenticator apps into a new app which works with both Microsoft accounts and Azure AD accounts.

Additionally, This Month we have a new Hybrid Identity and ADFS,  AzureAD Mailbag Series that answers important FAQs that exist today for most of of the customer using AD FS  in a Hybrid Idenity model with AzureAD.

AzureAD Mailbag: Hybrid Identity and ADFS

Azure D Mailbag: Hybrid Identity and ADFS Part 2

As AzureAD is evolving day by day, Expecting to see lot of new announcments in the upcoming months, stay tuned...