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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Azure Active Directory PowerShell

Similar to on-prem Active Directory, we also can use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory.

Let's see why we should use PowerShell to manage Azure Active Directory:

  • Early bird access to features: Microsoft keeps releasing new features, bug fixes, updates, and feature enhancements more frequently to Azure AD services than on-prem Active Directory.

    Microsoft releases new features to the public in two stages. In the first stage, they are released as a preview version. This is not recommended for use in production, but IT professionals can use them for testing and provide feedback to Microsoft. At this stage, the features can have many updates and, most of the time, it will take some time to update the GUI accordingly. Some of these changes will not be available on the GUI until general release. But if we are using PowerShell, we do not have to wait. We can have early access to features as soon as they are released.

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis