Tailspintoys – 3. The adoption has really been great – at least from an admin user perspective where 9. I usually force them). From an end user perspective we have more technical and informational challenges, which means that the adoption has not been as great as on the admin side. Hopefully the new shiny Conditional access policies for specific workloads will boost the adoption a bit. The purpose of this post is to share the most common questions I get from customers about using Azure MFA included in Office 3.

ADFS). Q: Can we pre- stage the MFA authentication methods so the end user doesn’t have to enroll after being enabled for MFA? A: As of now, unfortunately no – I tried to build a Power. Shell function to pre- populate the authentication methods if the user already had a mobile phone number. I was fooled and thought it worked, but when I tried on a user that never had enrolled MFA before, it failed. Troubleshooting further, the required MFA property “Strong. Authentication. User. Details” is not possible to pre- populate programmaticly, yet.

Maybe the new Azure. AD module can help here in the future. Conclusion – we have to instruct our users to enroll for MFA. Q: Can we prevent MFA from kicking in when authenticating from our internal network? A: Absolutely – There are some options depending on if you have Azure AD Premium or not. With Azure AD Premium. Here you can choose to “white list” your external IP addresses (which of course works with or without ADFS), or check the “Skip multi- factor authentication for requests from federated users on my intranet” checkbox.

1. Although Windows PowerShell has been available to IT professionals going on seven years, there are still many IT pros who are just now deciding to see what the fuss.
2. Office 365, Azure and Microsoft Infrastructure with a touch of PowerShell.

The LoopingMethod is just the method I use in my Window class to update the label (updating the progress) and then the code does some heavy lifting (Sleep).

This will make Azure AD decide about MFA based on the insidecorporatenetwork claims issued by your own ADFS. The following Power. Shell rows will add the required Issuance Transform Rules to your Azure AD RP. This can be done with the claim rules as below. I usually turn it off. First of all most rich clients (Including Outlook/Sf. B on mobile devices) do now support Modern Authentication (ADAL), which means they can handle MFA out of the box.

So as long as you have updated clients, you most often only need to handle Active. Sync (native mail clients in all kinds of devices). My approach here is usually to exclude them from MFA to get rid of the app password need, but enable conditional access in order to control the devices. Below you find a claims rule for the Active. Sync protocol that issues the multipleauthn claim which Azure AD will honor by skipping MFA for the request. The only thing you need to do is issue the authnmethodsreferences on the Azure AD RP to prevent users from getting “Double MFA” like Smart. Card + Azure MFA.

Wrap up. Hopefully this post has given you some good insights what to think about implementing Azure MFA for Office 3. It is not a complete walk in the park, but it’s definately doable for most organizations. As always, there are lots of if’s and but’s in all different environments. If I have missed something or if you have other, more specific questions, let me know!

Reading and Writing Unicode Data in . NETIntroduction. This article is for the beginners that are often puzzled by the big term, . I remember, a few months ago I was in the same situation, where most of the questions where based on the same thing, . Well, this article is meant to target all these questions, users and beginner programmers. This article will most specifically let you understand what Unicode is and why it is currently used (and since the day it was created). Also a few points about its types (such as what UTF- 8 and UTF- 1. I will move on to using these characters in multiple .

NET applications. Note that I will also be using ASP. NET web applications, to show the scenario in a web- based environment too. There are multiple classes provided in .

NET to let you kick- start your application based on Unicode characters to support global languages. Finally, I will be using a database example (I will be using Microsoft SQL Server) to show how to write and extract the data from the database. It is quite simple, no big deal at least for me. Once that has been done, you can download and execute the commands on your machine to test the Unicode characters yourself. Let us begin now.

I will not talk about Unicode itself, instead I will be talking about the . NET implementation of Unicode. Also note that the number value of the characters in this article are in numeric (and decimal) form, not in U+XXXX and hexadecimal form. I will, at the end, also show how to convert this decimal value into hexadecimal value. Starting with Unicode.

What Unicode is. Unicode is a standard for character encoding. You can think of as a standard for converting every character to its binary notation and every binary notation to its character representation. The computer can only store binary data. That is why non- binary data is converted into a binary representation to be stored on the machine.

Originally, there were not many schemes for developers and programmers to represent their data in languages other than English, although that was because application globalization was not general back then. Only the English language was used and the initial code pages included the codes to represent and process the encoding and decoding of English letters (lower and upper case) and some special characters. ASCII is one of them. Back in ASCII days, it encoded 1. English language to 7- bit data. ASCII doesn't only include encoding for text, but also for the directives for how text should be rendered and so on. Many are now not used.

That was the most widely used standard, because technology was so limited and it fulfilled their needs at that time. As computers became more widely used, technicians and many developers wanted their applications to be used in a client- locale- friendly version, there originated a requirement for a new standard, because otherwise every developer could create his own code page to represent various characters, but that would have removed the unity among the machines. Unicode, had originated back in late 1. Wikipedia), but was not used because of its large size of 2 bytes for every character. It had the capability to represent more characters than the ASCII standard.

Unicode supports 6. That is why Unicode is used widely, to support all of the characters globally and to ensure that the characters sent from one machine would be mapped back to a correct string and no data would be lost (by data loss I mean by sentences not being correctly rendered back). Unicode is Different. Beginners stumble upon UTF- 8, UTF- 1. UTF- 3. 2 and then finally on Unicode and they think of them being different.

Well, no, they're not. The actual thing is just Unicode, a standard. UTF- 8 and UTF- 1. UTF- 8 is 1 byte (but remember, this one can span to 2 bytes too if required and in the end of this article I will explain which one of these schemes you should use and why, so please read the article to the end) and so on. UTF- 8. UTF- 8 is the variable- length Unicode encoding type, by default it has 8 bits (1 byte) but can span and this character encoding scheme can hold all of the characters (because it can span for multiple bytes). It was designed to be a type that supports backward compatibility with ASCII for machines that don't support Unicode at all.

This standard can be used to represent the ASCII codes in the first 1. Latin, Arabic, Greek and so on and then all the remaining characters and code points can be used to represent the other characters. It was initially a fixed 2 byte character encoding, but then it was made variable- sized because 2 bytes are not enough. UTF- 3. 2UTF- 3. 2 uses exactly 3. Regardless of code points or character set or language, this encoding would always use 4 bytes for each of the characters. The only good thing about UTF- 3. Wikipedia) is that the characters are directly indexible.

That is not possible in variable- length UTF encodings. Whereas, I believe the biggest disadvantage of this encoding is the 4 bytes size per character, even if you're going to use Latin characters or ASCII characters specifically. Getting to the . NET Framework. Enough of the small background of the Unicode standard. Now I will continue by providing an overview of the .

NET Framework and the support of Unicode in the . NET Framework. The support for Unicode in . NET Framework is based on the primitive type, char. A char in the . NET Framework is 2 bytes and supports Unicode encoding schemes for characters. You can generally specify to use whichever Unicode encoding for your characters and strings, but by default you can think of the support for it to be UTF- 1.

Char (C# Reference) . NET documentation. Char Structure (System)The preceding documents contain different content, but are similar. By default . NET Framework supports Unicode characters too and would render them on the screen and you don't even need to write any seperate code, ensuring the encoding of the data source only. All of the applications in the . NET Framework support Unicode, such as WPF, WCF and the ASP.

NET applications. You can use all of the Unicode characters in all of these applications and . Descarga Gratis De Microsoft Powerpoint 2009 Honda more. NET would render the codes into their character notation. Do read the following section.

Console applications. As for Console applications, they are a good point to note here, because I said that every . NET application supports Unicode but I didn't mention Console applications. Well, the problem isn't generally the Unicode support, it is neither the platform nor the Console framework itself. It is because Console applications do not support graphics. Yes, supporting a variety of characters is graphical and you should read about glyphs. When I started to work around in a console applications to test Unicode support in Console applications, I was amazed to see that Unicode character support doesn't only depend on the underlying framework, or the library being used, but instead there is another factor that you should consider before using Unicode support.

That is the font family of your console. There are multiple fonts for Consoles if you open the properties of your console. Let us, now try out a few basic examples of characters from the range 0- 1. ASCII codes. First I will try ASCII codes (well a very basic one, .

I used the following code to be executed in the console application: using System;  using System. Collections. Generic;  using System. Linq;  using System. Text;  using System.

Threading. Tasks;    namespace Console. Unicode  . That was pretty basic. Now, let us take a step farther. Non- ASCII codes. Let us now try Greek letters, the first one in the row, alpha. If we execute code similar to the preceding and replace the ?

Hindi is pretty much regularly asked about, for how to store and extract Hindi letters from the database and so on. Let us now try Hindi characters in the console application. Nope, I didn't specify a question mark! That was meant to be a .