Service News Category: MI Newsletters

  • 2017 October: Ask the MI team

    October 18, 2017

      Here’s a slide deck for an event hosted by the Microsoft Technology community. askTheMiTeam  

  • 2017 April

    April 21, 2017

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the Microsoft Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Self-service Entra ID application identities. On 2/15/2017, we enabled UW users to create and integrate Entra ID application identities. This provides an easy way for developers to integrate with UW identities, but also allows a variety of 3rd party applications to easily be integrated. Users are advised to carefully evaluate the risk of application integrations. This new capability also…

  • 2016 September

    November 2, 2016

    Here’s our newsletter update on recent happenings with the Microsoft Infrastructure. This is usually semi-annual, but we’re late by 3 months this time around. Sorry!   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Entra ID application approval process. There is now a way to request Entra ID application identities. To find out more, we suggest you start at: https://itconnect.uw.edu/wares/msinf/aad/apps/.   * Service rename. We’ve changed our name from UW Windows Infrastructure (UWWI) to Microsoft Infrastructure (MI) to better reflect…

  • 2016 January

    January 16, 2016

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Self-service certificates for Delegated OUs. An AD-integrated certificate authority (AD Certificate Services) has been deployed. This allows Windows domain joined computers to automatically get a certificate which is automatically renewed. See https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/x/_69NB for more details.   * Azure Active Directory (AD) External User Invitations. Invitations to users outside the UW can be initiated by anyone with a UW…

  • 2015 July

    July 16, 2015

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Self-service SPNs for Application UW NetIDs. This allows an application UW NetID to set its own SPN values, just as a gMSA can, and like an OU admin can for a computer object. See https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/display/UWWI/Delegated+Service+Principal+Name+values for more details.   * Domain based DFS replication is now supported. This allows replication of file content across non-clustered Windows file servers….

  • 2015 January

    January 16, 2015

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Unix, Linux, and Mac Integration with UWWI Active Directory. Many customers already join their Macs, and some join their Unix computers to the NETID domain. We removed obstacles to using PowerBroker Enterprise or Open in the NETID domain, and put documentation together to help guide customers who would like these benefits but don’t know how. See https://wiki.cac.washington.edu/x/nCwJB for…

  • 2014 July

    July 16, 2014

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Group Managed Service Accounts are available to Delegated OU customers. This provides a self-service, higher-security option for non-interactive applications, services, and scheduled tasks that run automatically but need a security credential. See http://www.netid.washington.edu/documentation/groupManagedServiceAccounts.aspx.   * Kerberos delegation sensitivity enforced. Protections for certain types of UW NetIDs from applications that use this “logon on behalf of” capability. You can…

  • 2014 January

    January 16, 2014

    Here’s our semi-annual newsletter update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * A PowerShell script for creating computer objects in your delegated OU is now available. See http://www.netid.washington.edu/documentation/newUWWIComputer.aspx for more info.   * Limited GPO recovery now available. Each 1st and 15th of the month, we backup all GPOs, with a retention of 1 month. If you’d like a GPO restored from those backups, we can easily support that need….

  • 2013 July

    July 16, 2013

    Here’s an update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Work to refresh aging NETID domain controllers is complete. All NETID domain controllers are running Windows Server 2012, and the domain and forest functional levels are at Windows Server 2012.   * Work to add item-level recovery (via the Active Directory Recycle Bin feature) is complete. If you accidentally delete objects in your delegated OU, we can now recover them….

  • 2013 January

    January 16, 2013

    Here’s an update on recent happenings with the UW Windows Infrastructure.   ==== New Capabilities and Improvements ====   * Work to replace aging NETID domain controllers has resulted in 3 new DCs. This work included applying the WS2012 schema and also partially addressed some geo-redundant disaster recovery goals by locating a domain controller out of the Puget Sound region. Work to refresh existing WS2008R2 DCs to WS2012 continues.   * Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Office 2013 license…