MI Newsletters

This page collects Microsoft Infrastructure newsletters.

2017 October: Ask the MI team

Oct. 18, 2017

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

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…

2016 September

Nov. 02, 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…

2016 January

Jan. 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…

2015 July

Jul. 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…

2015 January

Jan. 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…

2014 July

Jul. 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,…

2014 January

Jan. 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. …

2013 July

Jul. 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…

2013 January

Jan. 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…