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How Managed Service Accounts in Active Directory Work

Published Feb 4, 2021 | Posted in Active Directory

Managed Service Accounts in Windows allow administrators to automate password management for accounts. Here's how they work. Read Article

About Steve Syfuhs

Steve Syfuhs manages the Windows Authentication team at Microsoft.

Published Feb 2, 2021

I recently recorded a presentation on the internals of hybrid Windows authentication. Go watch it.

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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.

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Published Jan 19, 2021

FIDO is how we're tackling passwordless authentication. Have you ever wondered how it works?

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Published Nov 24, 2020

Domain trusts are complicated. Here's how they work.

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Published Nov 18, 2020

Have you ever wondered how Windows does Single Sign-on?

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