The Azure Active Directory (AD) Password Protection feature which blocks commonly used and compromised passwords to dramatically reduce the risks raised by password spray attacks is now generally ...

Organizations using Microsoft's Azure Active Directory or Windows Server Active Directory service can now test drive two new two password security capabilities. The two capabilities, announced this ...

Microsoft this week announced the previews of two password security capabilities for organizations using the Azure Active Directory service or Windows Server Active Directory. One of previews is Azure ...

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory enhancements this week regarding password lengths and new conditional access controls for IT pros. Expanded Password Lengths Microsoft has pushed ...

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

The design of the Microsoft's Windows Azure Guest Agent could let hackers steal plaintext administrator passwords from target machines, researchers at Guardicore reported this week. If abused, the ...

Microsoft has released the public preview of a new Azure Active Directory tool that will help admins kill off bad passwords in the enterprise. The tool, called Azure AD Password Protection, offers a ...

Edit: Despite my comment below, I'd still be skeptical of a corporation being able to implement it properly. Edit 2: The problem is that MS advertises it with this: "No additional components needed on ...

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