For next week, Tuesday, October 26 we are proud to announce that we have a special edition of our #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar. This time, Isidora Katanic (Blog/LinkedIn/Twitter) and Holly Lehman (LinkedIn/Twitter) will host their “Head in the cloud, heart in the community” session. After that we also have Nicole Enders (Blog/LinkedIn/Twitter) hosting a session about:…
Category: Modern Workplace
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…
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…
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…
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…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #27 (Tomorrow), Tuesday June 22, featuring Peter Daalmans
For Tuesday, June 22 (yes, thats Tomorrow) we are proud to announce that our very own Peter Daalmans, Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility will host a session about: Ten practical tips to secure your corporate data with Microsoft 365 – 201906 edition Session abstract: Employees demanding access to your corporate data and apps on their often…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #26, Tuesday June 8th, featuring Thorsten Pickhan and Michael Plettner
For next week, Tuesday, June 8th we are proud to announce that Thorsten Pickhan, Senior Microsoft UC Consultant and Michael Plettner, Microsoft MVP (Office Apps and Services will be hosting a session about: Teams Phone System – A must have for the modern workplace. Session abstract: Modern workplaces and flexible “offices” are important topics and…
A first look at filtering when assigning apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft is currently in the process of rolling out a preview of filtering for apps, policies and profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. With this new functionality you will be able to define extra applicability conditions for Apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles. Not every workload is supported (yet) though, for example you cannot use the…
Speaking about Modern Authentication at the May 2021 meetup of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community #MC2MC
On Thursday May 27, Erik Loef and I will speak 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 Linders and…
Customizing the Microsoft Endpoint Manager company portal and my experiences doing so.
The Microsoft Company Portal app is a cross platform app available in the app stores of Apple, Android and Microsoft. The app, depending on the installed platform provides several options depending on the scenario it’s used in. In my implementations of Windows 10 Modern Workplaces the Company Portal is one of the apps which always…
Designing and configuring compliance policies for your Windows Modern Workplace using Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Measuring your managed systems against a baseline has been around for a while, in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager(MECM)/ConfigMgr we can already use one or more Configuration Items combined in a Configuration Baseline to measure and remediate clients against an imported or self created baseline. You can measure for example if the Windows Firewall is enabled…
Configuring Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Endpoint Manager managed Modern Workplace
Keeping Microsoft windows devices up-to-date has been a challenge I have been dealing with for a long time now. Within Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager/ConfigMgr getting grips on your updates was and is not an easy experience which you configure once and never have to touch again. If you in todays world are using Microsoft Endpoint…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL “Live – Ask us Anything” #3, on Tuesday March 23 about Microsoft Ignite
Starting in January 2021, the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands has started a new initiative, the “Live – Asks us Anything” sessions. During these sessions, hosted by Frans Oudendorp and Ronny de Jong we will invite one or several guests and talk about predefined subject. The session is live recorded and you are invited to…
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…