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…
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Speaking at the Nordic Virtual Summit 2021 about Conditional Access
On Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 February, several communities (A joint venture by #SGUCSE #SCUGDK #SCUGFI #MMUGNO and #MSEndpointMgr) in the Nordics are organizing the Nordic Virtual Summit. The organizing team consists of well-known community leads: Jan Ketil Skanke, Nicolay Andersen, Jörgen Nilsson, Stefan Schörling, Ronni Pedersen, Panu Saukko, Sandy Zeng and Maurice Daly. You…
Enabling Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) for your Modern Workplace users
On modern workplaces we use authentication techniques provided by Windows Hello for Business, like biometric and PIN. Due to this, user don’t login with their password all the time. Nowadays Microsoft even recommends to not set any password expiration policies because passwords which expire make users select predictable passwords, composed of sequential words and numbers…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #1, January 19, 2021 featuring Adnan Hendricks
For Today, January 19th we are proud to announce that our own Adnan Hendricks, Microsoft Azure MVP will host a session about: Azure AD Identity Protection. Session abstract: One of the advantages of Microsoft having many customers using its services is that Microsoft can leverage data from those customers and apply some real fancy Machine…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja Usergroup München on Thursday January 21st 2021
On Thursday, January 21st 2021 I’m honored to announce that I will be speaking at the Workplace Ninja Usergroup München meetup. The Workplace Ninja User Group München is run by Christian Lehrer, @chri_tea on Twitter and Maren Beuth. The meeting will start at 19:00 Central European Time, click here to find out at what time…
Defining more granularity for your Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions using Sensitivity Labels
In June this year I wrote an article about: Limit Access to Outlook Web Access, SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions, the article explains how you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to restrict downloading and printing within SharePoint Online/OneDrive and Outlook Web Access (OWA). Within that article we used a…
Designing and building your Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune environment for Operations
In my work as a modern workplace consultant, I see a lot of Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune environments. Many of these environments have been build based on trial and therefore it lacks structure and overview. Most of the environments have been built from scratch, adding and removing functionality until a point was reached where the solution…
Conditional Access demystified: My recommended default set of policies
In August last year, I published eight articles in a series on Conditional Access, and later once finished I decided to bundle those articles in a paper which are now available on GitHub. You can find version 1.1. of the Conditional Access demystified paper there. You can expect a new version coming soon, since I…
Understanding and governing reauthentication settings in Azure Active Directory
Governing when users receive authentication prompts when authenticating to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is depending on more than one setting, on which functionalities are in use and also in which scenario you authenticate (Browser, Modern clients or other). Reauthentication can take place by asking for a single factor, like password, FIDO, the password less…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 13 on October 27th featuring Erik Loef and Kenneth van Surksum
For Tuesday, October 27th we are proud to announce that Erik Loef, CTO and Microsoft MVP at Proxsys, and Kenneth van Surksum, Modern Workplace consultant at Insight24 will host a session about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about, and why you should phase out Legacy authentication?”
Azure AD Continuous access evaluation (CAE), a first look
In April 2020 Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft announced that Microsoft was working on moving towards real time policy and security enforcement. The first implementation for this move is now available as an option you can enabled within Azure AD, called Continuous access evaluation (CAE). The functionality released in April was only…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 12 featuring Thijs Lecomte
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For Tuesday, October 13th we are proud to announce that Thijs Lecomte, senior Microsoft 365 consultant at The Collective Consulting and technical editor for the Microsoft 365 Security…
Assigning groups to Azure AD roles and Privileged access groups, a first look!
On August 13th 2020, Alex Simons (Microsoft Identity PM) announced that assigning groups to Azure AD roles in now in public preview. This feature is one of the most requested features to be found in the Azure AD feedback forum. I have been following this feature request for a while now, and up until recently…
Limit Access to Outlook Web Access, SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions
One of the scenario’s we can build with Conditional Access, is the scenario where we restrict access inside the web application itself. By doing so, you could for example limit the functionality of the web applications on non-managed devices, or when accessing the web application from a country where your company normally doesn’t operate. The…
May 2020 update of the Conditional Access Demystified Whitepaper, Workflow cheat sheet, Implementation workflow and Documentation spreadsheet
In August last year, I published eight articles in a series on Conditional Access, and later when finished I decided to bundle those articles in a paper which I made available on the TechNet Gallery. In March this year, Microsoft decided to retire the TechNet Gallery, so I had to find another solution to host…