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Alexey Astashin

Alexey Astashin

Managing Azure Policies with Infrastructure as Code principles: configuring diagnostic logs (Part…

In this post we’ll talk about one of the most important part of Azure Governance — Azure Policy. In this part there will be overview of…

7 min readJun 21, 2021

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Managing Azure Policies with Infrastructure as Code principles: configuring diagnostic logs (Part…

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Alexey Astashin

Managing Azure Policies with Infrastructure as Code principles: configuring diagnostic logs (Part…

In this post we’ll talk about one of the most important part of Azure Governance — Azure Policy. In this part there will be overview of…

6 min readJun 16, 2021

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Managing Azure Policies with Infrastructure as Code principles: configuring diagnostic logs (Part…

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 7: Role delegation with Administrative Units

In this part we will talk about permission delegation challenges in single Azure AD tenant and how to solve them with administrative units

7 min readMay 22, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 7: Role delegation with Administrative Units

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 5: Sync between Azure AD tenants

When designing single tenant architecture for Azure AD for enterprise consisting of multiple companies, it is not uncommon that some of…

10 min readMay 13, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 5: Sync between Azure AD tenants

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 6: B2B sync engine in details

Sync engine contains several Azure resources and uses Graph API to communicate with Azure AD. Depending on type and location (local or…

6 min readMay 6, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 6: B2B sync engine in details

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 4: Azure AD Viral tenants

We have the same goal: to bring disconnected AD domains to a central tenant. But imagine a scenario: you contacted local AD team and they…

6 min readMay 4, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 4: Azure AD Viral tenants

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 3: Azure AD Viral tenants

This part will be mainly high-level and is about things to consider before implementing object sync from AD using AAD Connect cloud sync.

7 min readApr 30, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 3: Azure AD Viral tenants

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 2: AD Connect Cloud Sync Job Schema

Shortly after its release back in end of 2019 AAD Connect Cloud Sync did not allow to perform one very important thing: modifying attribute…

8 min readApr 30, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 2: AD Connect Cloud Sync Job Schema

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Alexey Astashin

Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 1: Bring ’em all in

In January 2021 Microsoft announced general availability of Azure AD Connect cloud sync feature. For us, the earliest adopters of this new…

6 min readApr 30, 2021

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Single Azure AD tenant for large enterprises, part 1: Bring ’em all in

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Alexey Astashin

Alexey Astashin

My technical focus is Azure Active Directory as Identity and Access Management service and managing infrastructure hosted on Azure.

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