Starting on Wednesday September 27, till Friday September 29 the Workplace Ninja Summit which is an in-person event will take place in Baden, Switserland. This event is organized by the diverse Workplace Ninja User Groups throughout the world which provide delegates helping to organize this 3 day event. The event will have more than 100,…
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Speaking at the Cloud Identity Summit 2023, on September 7th 2023
On Thursday September 7th, the annual Cloud Identity Summit will take place as an in-person event in Koblenz Germany. This event is organized by Thomas Naunheim, Gregory Reimling and René Wasel, you can find more information about them here. At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id/Azure AD Conditional Access in my…
Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context now also available for Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
Microsoft has extended the capabilities of Azure AD authentication context to Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM). By doing this we can trigger a Conditional Access policy to be executed at the moment someone elevates their role using Azure AD PIM. This functionality is now in preview. In June 2021 I already provided a first…
December 2022 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.
I’m proud to announce the December 2022 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fifth iteration of the whitepaper and accompanying files. I released the first version in in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 3: Granular control for external user types
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 2: Conditional Access filters for Apps and Workload Identities
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 1: Authentication Strength
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Speaking about Conditional Access at Experts Live Netherlands 2022 on September 30 in Den Bosch
Besides helping organizing Experts Live NL 2022 in my role as speaker manager together with Erik Loef, I’m also happy to announce that I will be speaking at this amazing event as well. My session will be about: Azure AD Conditional Access Demystified, a topic on which I already presented before and written some extensive…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja Summit 2022 on September 12th in Luzern Switzerland
After speaking virtually on the Workplace Ninja Summit 2020 and Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, I’m really proud to announce that I will also speak the Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, and this time it’s an in-person event. The Workplace Ninja Summit 2022, is an in-person event held from September 12th till September 14 in Luzern Switzerland….
Setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory
Apple Business Manager is a service provided by Apple which helps to deploy Apple devices and apps in your organization. By leveraging Apple Business Manager (ABM) you can automatically enroll devices in Microsoft Endpoint Manager by using Automated Device Enrollment (ADE). You could say it provides similar functionality as to what Windows Autopilot provides for…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the M365 Chicago Virtual Event on January 14th, 2022
On Friday, January 14, 2022 I will be speaking at the M365 Chicago Virtual event. You can attend the event for free, by signing up via the Eventbrite link on the website of M365 Chicago. There are more than 100 session during the day given by great speakers. What is M365Chicago? It is where Microsoft…
Conditional Access announcements from Ignite November 2021 reviewed
During the Microsoft Ignite conference in November 2021 Microsoft made several announcements related to Azure AD conditional access. You can read those announcements in the following article: “Identity at Ignite: Strengthen resilience with identity innovations in Azure AD“. And this morning Thomas Naunheim, tweeted that he saw the announced functionality appear within his tenant. Time…
Azure AD Conditional Access sign-in troubleshooting tip: Flag sign-in errors for review
If you have Conditional Access configured and active within your Azure AD environment, there might be some scenario’s where users are not able to sign-in. If you want to troubleshoot these sign-in failures as an administrator you normally turn to the Azure AD sign-in logging and work from there to determine the cause of these…
Continuous Access Evaluation configuration is now part of Conditional Access
While browsing through the options in my Conditional Access policies I noticed a new session related to Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE). Time for a blogpost on my findings. Continuous access evaluation allows for a quicker response by forcing an access token refresh in case of a certain events taking place. In October last year I…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Meetup #1, Thursday November 4th – Microsoft Ignite edition
For next week, Thursday November 4th, we are proud to announce that we are hosting our first on-premised event again. The event will be held in the Hollywoud Cinema in Almkerk the Netherlands, kindly hosted by our sponsor Proxsys. The topics on the event will all be about Microsoft Ignite, which is Microsoft’s annual gathering…