Category: hosting

  • Entra External ID and SAML Authentication

    Entra External ID and SAML Authentication

    A new feature to the Entra External ID product is SAML authentication. External ID is used for authenticating your customers to your apps, rather than the “workforce” product for staff and guests. SAML has been in the workforce Entra ID (previously Azure AD) product for years. This blog will walk through the steps to set…

  • Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Spam Filtering to Outlook’s Junk E-Mail Folder

    Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is a cloud hosted email anti-spam and antivirus filtering system. Amongst the options to filter away your spam, one of the options to to allow the email to be flagged and sent on into your on-premises email system, and then managing it there. If you have Exchange 2007 or…

  • Hosting Exchange 2010 and Issues With Duplicate Contacts

    When you are creating a hosted Exchange system using the Exchange 2010 On Premises product (not the /hosting version of the product) it is likely that if two or more of your customers create a mail contact in the global address list (GAL) for the same external email recipient they will see some issues with…

  • GoDaddy SSL Certificate Approval with TXT Records

    I had a bit of an issue with Go Daddy yesterday in that they took 5 days to approve a Subject Alternative Name change to a certificate, and as the usual route of adding a file to a website was unavailable to me I decided to prove ownership of the domain by the addition of…