Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Virtualized Active Directory without Physical Domain Controller

Virtualizing entire Active Directory without Physical Domain Controller As an Active Directory Administrator I would think like, Can we setup or create a 100% virtual Active Directory without Physical Domain Controllers? It mitigates the risk of virtualization platform malfunction that will affect entire Active Directory platform, is this correct? Will discuss Pros and Cons of… Read More »

Can we Replace on-premise Domain Controller with Cloud-based Active Directory

Can we deploy cloud domain controller in Azure: If you are looking for cloud-based Active Directory as a replacement for the on-premise domain controller, like Active Directory without on-premise domain controller, we have an Azure Active Directory is a cloud-based identity and access management service hosted in Microsoft datacenter, If you are looking to get… Read More »

Office 365 DirSync Error: Unable to update this object because of missing attributes

One of our reader has an issue with the Office 365 syncing with their on-premises active directory, getting below error while running DirSync, error is as follows Unable to update this object because the following attributes associated with this object have values that may already be associated with another object in your local directory services IdFix… Read More »

Difference between DirSync, Azure AD Sync and Azure AD Connect

Before I start discuss about the difference, just want to share what these tools are used for and why we need to know the difference DirSync, Azure AD Sync and Azure AD Connect are used to sync on-premises Active Directory to cloud based directory service like Azure AD instance, Office 365, Dynamics Online and other Microsoft… Read More »

Active Directory on Cloud

Active Directory on Cloud (Azure Active Directory) May be a year back I couldn’t think Active Directory on Cloud, technology is always changing and now we have Azure Active Directory or Azure AD/ AAD, is a cloud-based identity and access management service hosted in Microsoft Azure datacentres We can’t ignore the fact that this can… Read More »

Amazon cloud outage questioned the Cloud reliability again

Netflix, online video Streaming and movie rental site been down for some subscribers this Christmas Eve, this incident again questioned the cloud reliability AWS (Amazon Web Services) is hosting a many websites and online services, Amazon Web Services experiencing an issue with the Elastic Load Balancing Service which caused an outage for some online services… Read More »

Microsoft Cloud Services

Microsoft entered in to Cloud computing with different services (like Office365, Windows Azure, Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM) to compete with Google apps, amazon cloud, Microsoft Cloud Services are designed for targeted market and customers to fulfill their needs, let’s see how Microsoft cloud can be used in real time Office365Through office365, Microsoft able… Read More »

Cloud Reliability

Is Cloud reliable? All most every tech magazines have an article on Cloud Computing and it’s been frequently used word in IT, yes Cloud is the emerging technology in IT world seeking to change the concept of personal computing and taking it to a new level of computing and it is a talk of the… Read More »