Difference between LIVE MODE vs TEST MODE in authorized.net - sandbox

I am integrating the payment gateway to a client's website. But I am having some confusion on the sandbox account. Actually on the sandbox account there is Test Mode and Live Mode. On both modes test cards are accepted.
But in LIVE mode of the sandbox account is the live card accepted and charged?

Test mode is a replication in a sandbox environment. This allows you to test all aspects of your integration before you go live.
Once you've completed your integration, done your testing, and are ready to go live with your application ofcourse you will be charged according to their policy.

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Best practice for maintaining dev Azure Active Directory (AAD) that closely mirrors production AAD?

I would like for our team to do all development work in a dev AAD that is configured very closely to the production AAD. In this manner, our work will not need to be changed to work in production.
Right now our team has:
a production AAD tenant that has:
a production subscription
a development subscription; and,
a test AAD tenant that is very simple and configured very differently from the prod tenant.
The utopia for me is that a true development environment where production security policy need not apply, but still be confident that what works in dev will also work in production. Can AAD be maintained programmatically and take advantage of CI/CD?
As per #Nishant - MSFT Identity's comment above...
Currently, this is not possible (3rd party tools might be available), you can, however, try to retrieve non-user specific settings via MS graph and use them as a template. Also, you may request for this feature or support similar ones on Azure Feedback

Unable to select a production account ID you want to use to promote your integration key?

I am trying to set my integration key to live and when I am prompted to set the production key, it is greyed out. My account type is using a basic API plan (not a free plan or a trial).
Would anybody be able to confirm if the basic API plan is sufficient enough for a production environment?
I can confirm this. Basic API plan should suffice.
Please read the directions for Go-Live here - https://developers.docusign.com/esign-rest-api/guides/go-live and follow the steps carefully. Follow up with DocuSign support if you are unable to complete the process.

Azure AD sync shows success but no new users in portal

I installed Azure AD Connect and ran an initial full sync with filter to just cover a test OU of 20 users. The synchronization tool shows success but when I go to the portal I see a sync status is enabled, but there is a message "last sync: sync has never run". Federated domains is also 0.
A reboot fixed it. I think that forced it to follow the scheduler. I'm not sure why my manual syncs didn't work

Azure Remote Desktop Traceability in a Cloud Service

If you follow Microsoft's instructions here to enable RDP on instances in a Cloud Service, they tell you to create a user and set a password for remote desktop purposes.
As this can quickly become a "shared account", I am wondering how one goes about linking this to a person. The Azure Operation logs do not seem to keep track of who RDP'ed or not, and the Windows Security Event Log obviously has no idea what user was connecting other than the user you created. This make traceability difficult.
While I understand RDP should only be enabled for troubleshooting purposes, I am hoping I missed something simple that would allow Azure Cloud Service users to enable RDP without losing all traceability on who is accessing what instance.
Short Version: How do I know who connected over RDP using the shared RDP Account? Azure logs, infrastructure logs maybe?
Thanks
There have been a few changes since the link you mentioned is published:
You can now enable/disable remote desktop through the portal. You don't have to do it at the time of publishing your cloud service. Using this, you can provision remote desktop connections for individual users in your team instead of relying on one shared RDP connection. To do so, click on CONFIGURE tab for your cloud service and then click on Remote icon and follow the instructions.
The thing you do on portal with remote desktop can also be done programmatically using Service Management API. With the latest Service Management API release, RDP functionality is basically an extension which you can enable/disable on the fly. I wrote a blog post not too long ago describing this functionality: http://gauravmantri.com/2013/05/06/windows-azure-cloud-services-extensions-and-service-management-api-fun-with-remote-desktop/
I haven't actually looked at security event logs so I can't say for sure that it would log this activity but I'm assuming it would.

Difference between Preview and Production version of Azure AppFabric Access Control Service

I started to learn everything connected with Azure platform a little time ago. I'm really fascinated how some stuff works like a charm. One of that is AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) and possibility of Single Sign On (SSO) with Facebook, Google, Live id...
When I was learning how to get running AppFabric I used preview version of it (available for free at https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/, but without SLA). Every tutorial about SSO was based on that Management portal.
Now, when I have my real Azure account (and AppFabric with it) I'm really confused because I can't find anywhere and section on portal where to configure ACS? I want to be able to create relaying party with facebook, live id and google identity provider using real appfabric account? Is that possible?
On some places I saw that this what I'm talking is only preview version of future ACS and that is not in production yet. So, if that is true, my main question is can I use production version (real appfabric account) to do single sign on on my web app? If not, what can I do with current production ACS version? What is the main purpose of it?
If someone have some links where are described main difference between Preview and Production version of AppFabric ACS, I will appreciate that.
P.S - Only tutorial that I found and is considered on current production release of ACS is at https://portal.appfabriclabs.com/. But I don't see integration with facebook, google.. There isn't SSO there...
Thank you in advance.
The current production version of ACS is a subset of what you see in the "Labs". Production currently supports SWT and WRAP. No WS-Federation, no WS-Trust, no (or limited) SAML.
All the cool stuff you mention (SSO for websites, out of the box integration with FB, Google, Yahoo! and LiveID, etc) is available on ACS "Labs" (which is not production yet).

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