How Azure AD Kerberos Works Published Dec 1, 2021 | Posted in Windows Azure AD Kerberos is a modern form of Kerberos for hybrid environments. Read Article About Steve Syfuhs Steve Syfuhs manages the Windows Authentication team at Microsoft. Read More about Steve Mastodon github.com/SteveSyfuhs
Improvements in Windows Kerberos Architecture Published Apr 14, 2023 We rewrote the cryptographic services of Kerberos in Windows. Read Article | Kerberos
Kerberos Event ID 27 Published Nov 24, 2022 Windows system Event 27 is raised when Kerberos can't find a key. Read Article | Windows
Why We Built Azure AD Kerberos Published Dec 2, 2021 Why do we need Azure AD Kerberos? Read Article | Authentication
Lessons in Disabling RC4 in Active Directory Published Mar 2, 2021 Customer lessons learned when disabling RC4 in Active Directory. Read Article | Active Directory
OPS108: Windows authentication internals in a hybrid world Published Feb 2, 2021 I recently recorded a presentation on the internals of hybrid Windows authentication. Go watch it. Read Article | Windows
Identity Delegation in Active Directory Published Jan 26, 2021 Active Directory delegation is an often misunderstood technology. Here's an in-depth look at how it works. Read Article | Security
Preventing UAC Bypass through Kerberos Loopback Published Jan 21, 2021 User Account Control is a local authorization mechanism. Can you bypass it by going through the network? No. Here's why. Read Article | Windows
Hybrid Authentication with FIDO Published Jan 19, 2021 FIDO is how we're tackling passwordless authentication. Have you ever wondered how it works? Read Article | Windows
Kerberos FAST Armoring Published Jan 16, 2021 FAST Armoring is a Kerberos extension intended to improve the security of the Kerberos protocol. Read Article | Kerberos
Windows and Domain Trusts Published Nov 24, 2020 Domain trusts are complicated. Here's how they work. Read Article | Windows
How Azure AD Windows Sign-in Works Published Sep 22, 2020 Let's talk Azure AD join and what that means to a Windows device. What's it mean to be joined to something? Read Article | Kerberos
Kerberos Explained in a Little Too Much Detail Published Sep 15, 2020 Kerberos is an authenticated key agreement protocol based on the Needham-Schroeder protocol. That's too complicated -- let's break it down a little. Read Article | Kerberos
How Authentication Works when you use Remote Desktop Published Sep 9, 2020 Have you ever wondered how authentication works for things like Remote Desktop? Read Article | Windows
What Happens When you Type Your Password into Windows? Published Sep 9, 2020 Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you type your password into the Windows logon screen and hit enter? Read Article | Windows