Author Archives: feadmin

Microsoft 365 Roadmap

One of the hardest things to deal with when working with Microsoft’s cloud services is the avalanche of information published daily. What’s relevant and interesting compared to the chaff that is not meaningful for you? Microsoft employees refer to it as “drinking from the firehose”. Well, one of the most helpful sources I’ve come across… Read More »

PTA, AADJ and the “User must change password at next log on” flag

OK, the title has a whole bunch of acronyms which may not be entirely familiar. Actually…if we’re being really picky I should probably say a whole bunch of initialisms, but that would digress into a whole different article when a perfectly good Wikipedia article already exists for that. 🙂 Anyway, PTA is the accepted short form… Read More »

How to change the token lifetime for a SAML 2.0 application with Azure Active Directory

Configurable token lifetimes for Azure Active Directory (AAD) have been available for while now, although the feature is still in public preview.  This article provides details of how to create an access token lifetime policy and how to apply it to an application federated with AAD using SAML 2.0. Before we get started with this, we need to ensure… Read More »

How to modify the AWS Console timeout with Azure Active Directory SAML

This article describes how to configure Azure Active Directory as the SAML Identity Provider (IdP) to change the default AWS Console timeout from 1 hour to a different value. It seems there has been a lot of discussion about how to change the timeout and there is no clear documentation from AWS how to achieve… Read More »

Exchange Online PowerShell Module and Execution Policy

I’ll get to the problem with Powershell Execution Policy shortly, but first a bit of background… If your AAD/O365 admin accounts are configured for multi-factor authentication (which they should be, because it’s free), you will likely be familiar with the Exchange Online PowerShell Module, which is designed to work with MFA.  Getting to the Module… Read More »

Blog is 10 years old

I got caught by surprise earlier today when I was looking at some of my older blog posts. It turns out my first entry was on the 10th March 2008. Happy 10th birthday Open a Socket! Thanks to all of you who have supported me over the years with comments, words of encouragement, and for keeping… Read More »