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October 2, 2021October 2, 2021

Using Mozilla Firefox as a browser when using Azure AD Conditional Access on your Modern Workplace

Starting with Firefox version 91, Mozilla is now supporting Single sign-on support (SSO) and device-based Conditional Access as announced by Microsoft in the What’s new in Azure Active Directory for August 2021. The feature is still in Public Preview from a Microsoft point of view, and considered Advanced and experimental from a Mozilla point of…

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September 17, 2021September 17, 2021

Preventing account breaches leveraging SIM swapping techniques by nudging your users to start using the Microsoft authenticator app

The last couple of years, Microsoft has been pushing the usage of Multi Factor Authentication for logins to their Cloud Services. MFA, which requires that users authenticate with at least two factors, can reduce the risk of identity compromise by as much as 99.9 percent over passwords alone. Now that more and more companies are…

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September 10, 2021September 10, 2021

OneDrive client sign-in issues due to Conditional Access policies in Azure AD tenant where you are a guest user

Today I experienced an interesting issue, for which I thought it was interesting sharing how I figured out what was going on. The issue/challenge The issue I encountered was related to the fact that I couldn’t sign-in into the OneDrive client anymore. When you are not able to sign-in, you cannot open documents which are…

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July 1, 2021July 1, 2021

My session about Conditional Access at the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance User Group on June 30, 2021

On Wednesday June 30, I spoke at the monthly user group meeting of the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group. The Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group is based in the UK and  UK based user group consists of Alan Eardley (@al_eardley) and Peter Rising (@M365Rising) The meeting will started with a very…

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June 23, 2021June 24, 2021

A first look at Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context

During Microsoft Ignite in March this year, Microsoft announced several new upcoming functionalities for Azure Active Directory. One of the announcement was the Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context, for which I that time I already wrote about what it could do in my blog article: Modern Workplace Management key takeaways from the Microsoft Ignite…

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June 10, 2021June 10, 2021

Speaking about Conditional Access at the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance User Group on June 30, 2021

On Wednesday June 30, I will be speaking at the monthly user group meeting of the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group. The Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group is based in the UK and  UK based user group consists of Alan Eardley (@al_eardley) and Peter Rising (@M365Rising) The meeting starts at 18:00…

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May 28, 2021May 28, 2021

Our session about Modern Authentication at the May 2021 meetup of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community #MC2MC

Yesterday, on Thursday May 27, Erik Loef and I delivered a session at the May virtual event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community is a Belgian community with the following members: Tim de Keukelaere, Wim Matthyssen, Tim Hermie, Ken Goossens, Jasper Bernaers, Peter de Tender, Peter…

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May 27, 2021May 27, 2021

A first look at using Filters for devices as conditions in Azure AD Conditional Access policies

Earlier this month I wrote an article about using filtering in assignments for apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. And now Microsoft has made available a preview of “Filters for devices” for use in your Azure AD Conditional Access policies. Because this functionality is provided as a preview there is no…

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April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

Using Conditional Access to provide more granularity when registering or joining devices

This month Microsoft released a new “User Action” for Conditional Access in public preview. The new user action called “Register or join devices” can now be used to provide more granularity related to joining or registering a device in Azure Active Directory. Up until now, there was a global setting which you could define related…

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March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #22, Tuesday March 30, featuring Dirk-jan Mollema, security researcher at Fox-IT

For next week, Tuesday, March 30 we are proud to announce that Dirk-jan Mollema, one of the core researchers of Active Directory and Azure AD at Fox-IT will be hosting a session about: Azure, Conditional Access, Attackers and you – the present and future of attacks against the Microsoft Cloud. Session abstract: In a working-remote…

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March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

My presentations at the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland 2103 virtual meetup

On Friday, the 19th of March, I spoke at the 2103 virtual meetup of the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland. During this event which lasts a whole day I presented two sessions. One, together with Erik Loef was about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about?” and the other one was about: “Designing…

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March 16, 2021September 17, 2021

Have you already started your journey towards Passwordless authentication on your Modern Workplace?

One of the main Identity related topics during Microsoft Ignite March 2021 edition was passwordless. Microsoft announced at the event that passwordless authentication is now generally available, and Microsoft is now urging their customers to start their journey towards passwordless. As the name implies, going passwordless means that we will get rid of passwords for…

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February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

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…

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February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

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…

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February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

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…

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