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…
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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….
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…
My appearance in the Cloud Conversations podcast #32
On Saturday, October 30th I was a guest in the Cloud Conversations podcast which is hosted by Kat Greenan, Peter Rising and Ru Cambell. The Cloud Conversations podcast was already in my list of Podcasts to follow and I listen to it regularly. It was therefore a hug honor to be invited over to speak…
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…
October 2021 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet
I’m proud to announce the October 2021 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fourth 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…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Centric Craft webinar on Wednesday October 13, 2021
On Wednesday October 13, I will be speaking at the free online webinar hosted by Centric Craft. Craft is a community initiative from the company Centric which wants to contribute to the IT industry by sharing knowledge and helping all IT professionals develop themselves, even if they don’t work at Centric. My session will start…
Control Azure AD Conditional Access policy behavior during an Azure AD outage
In December last year, Microsoft announced that per April 1, 2021 they updated their service level agreement(SLA) for Azure AD user authentication from 99.9% to 99,99%. While this might seem like a small update in reality it makes a difference of 473 minutes (in a year with 365 days). With 99.9% the allowed downtime was…
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…