For next week, Tuesday, February 16 we are proud to announce that Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft will be hosting a session about: Manage and govern your hybrid servers using Azure Arc. Session abstract: Thomas Maurer shows you how you can manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure…
Month: February 2021
A first look at the settings catalog in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
With the 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune, released this week (February 1, 2021) Microsoft released a lot of new features. One of those features is the introduction of the settings catalog, which is now in preview. Microsoft describes the settings catalog as: “Settings catalog lists the settings you can configure, and all in one…
My presentation about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands
Yesterday, on Thursday February 16, I presented at the 19th Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands Tuesdays Webinar. My session, titled “Azure AD Conditional Access demystified” started at 16:00, and lasted around 75 minutes. This session, which I prepared based on the various articles I wrote about the subject is continuously updated to reflect my current…
February 2021 update of the Azure AD Conditional Access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.
I’m proud to announce the February 2021 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the third iteration of the whitepaper starting with the first one released in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing a lot of…
My presentation about Conditional Access at the Nordic Virtual Summit 2021
Today, on Thursday February 11, I presented for at the second day of the Nordic Virtual Summit 2021 event. The event was very well organized by several communities (A joint venture by #SGUCSE #SCUGDK #SCUGFI #MMUGNO and #MSEndpointMgr) in the Nordics and had more than 2000 people attending. The organizing team consists of well-known community…
First look at Access Reviews for guests in all Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups
In January, Microsoft announced that they released a public preview allowing entitled customers to create Azure AD access reviews for guest users across all Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups in the organization. By implementing Access Reviews, an identity governance feature you can review members of groups, enterprise applications and roles within your Azure Active…
Demystifying Windows 10 in cloud configuration
On February 2, 2021 Microsoft announced “Windows 10 in cloud configuration”, when reading the title I was immediately interested to find out what that meant. Hence, even Mary Jo Foley wrote an article on the subject: Microsoft makes available Windows 10 ‘in cloud’ configuration settings for IT admins Let’s dive in deeper and see. Microsoft…
Updating your Security baselines in Microsoft Endpoint Manager to a newer version
With the 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune, released this week (February 1, 2021) Microsoft released a lot of new features (more on that in other blogposts). One of the important changes in this service release is the fact that the security baselines for Windows 10 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP)…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands meetup webinar on February 16, about Conditional Access
On Tuesday the 16th of February, I will speak at the webinar of the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands. This session, which is updated monthly will go into more detail about the different topics surrounding Conditional Access which I blogged about here. The webinar will start at 16:00 CEST (Amsterdam time zone), please click here…