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…
With Windows Update for Business configured, will my devices automagically start updating to Windows 11?
Tomorrow, on October 5th Microsoft will make Windows 11 Generally Available. Many of my customers already asked if this will have any impact on their existing deployment rings. Here is what I know so far. Microsoft released the following documentation: Plan for Windows 11 and Prepare for Windows 11. On the page they mention the…
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…
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…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
From Tuesday August 31 till Thursday September 2, the 2nd edition of the Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition will take place. The event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams on the msftcommunity platform and there will be 80+ sessions in total covering different topics related to management of endpoints with configuration manager and Intune, as well…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #28, Tuesday July 6, featuring Jeremy Moskowitz
Our # WPNinjasNL “Live – Ask us Anything” session planned for Tuesday June 29 has been rescheduled to Monday July 5th, you can still join the recording of this meeting with special guests John Gruszczyk, Product Manager at Microsoft and Stephen Rose Product Evangelist at Microsoft about Teams and Security by RSVP’ing on our meetup…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Enterprise Mobility
On Thursday June 1st 2021, I received an email from Microsoft telling me that I received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. My award is given for the category Enterprise Mobility, which covers most of the topics part of the Microsoft 365 line of products. It’s a real honor to be recognized by Microsoft…
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…