This blogpost is a continuation of two earlier blogposts about integrating Apple Business Manager with Azure Active Directory and Apple Business Manager. The first blogpost written was about Setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory and covered the steps to request access to Apple Business Manager, and how to setup and…
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Connecting Microsoft Endpoint Manager to Apple Business Manager
This article will continue where we finished in the article I wrote about setting up Apple Business Manager for use with Azure Active Directory. In that article we went through the process of requesting access to Apple Business Manager (ABM), and once access is granted how we can authenticate to ABM using our Azure AD…
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 at the December 2021 – MC2MC Evening event about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Thursday, December 16, the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community (MC2MC) is organizing its December Evening event. The MC2MC team consists of Tim de Keukelaere, Wim Matthyssen, Tim Hermie, Ken Goossens, Jasper Bernaers, Peter de Tender, Peter Linders and Micha Wets, all well respected community organizers from Belgium. The event, which will be virtual…
Gradual rollout options for upgrading to Windows 11 are now available in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft has made available service release 2111 for Microsoft Endpoint Manager, this release contains a lot of updates which are described on the What’s new page, see: Week of November 15, 2021 (Service release 2111). Some of the updates are related to who we can gradually rollout to Windows 11, which is reflected in the…
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…
Speaking at the HTMD Conference 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Saturday, November 20, the How to Manage Devices Community Group India, which is led by Microsoft MVP enterprise mobility Anoop C Nair organizes it’s How to Manage devices event. The HTMD Conference is all about sharing knowledge on device management and related topics. The sessions from industry experts on the following topics help you…
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…
Speaking at the AppManagEvent 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Friday, November 12th Professional Development Services is organizing its annual event AppManagEvent again. This in-person full day event which will take place at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During the event, there will be around 23 session by 18 different speakers on topics around Deployment, Security, Application Virtualization, MSIX, Win10/11/365 management, Identity Management,…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #32, Tuesday October 26, featuring Isidora Katanic, Holly Lehman and Nicole Enders #WomenInTech
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:…
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…