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Another day, another hidden global administrator

Another day, another hidden global administrator

In Microsoft 365 there is an option that allows Microsoft-certified solution providers (partners) to purchase and manage products and…
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Connecting to Microsoft Graph in Azure Automation PowerShell runbooks

Connecting to Microsoft Graph in Azure Automation PowerShell runbooks

If you want to connect to Microsoft Graph using application permissions and a client certificate in Azure Automation PowerShell runbooks I…
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Modernize your approach to passwords with the Azure AD identity platform

Modernize your approach to passwords with the Azure AD identity platform

Yes, we don’t like passwords, but let’s take a practical look at what we can do to make it easier for our users while increasing security.
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Conditional Access as Code

Introducing Conditional Access as Code. A fully automated solution to kick-start and maintain your Conditional Access deployment.
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 6— Reach back to on-premises

Azure AD identity governance — Part 6— Reach back to on-premises

The blog series
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 5 — Govern access lifecycle

If you are thinking about authorization management with Azure AD it is important to understand what options are available. There has been…
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Azure AD B2B life-cycle management with a sponsor per partner organization and fallback

Azure AD B2B life-cycle management with a sponsor per partner organization and fallback

This is a simple implementation proposal for Azure AD B2B life-cycle management with a sponsor per partner organization and fallback based…
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Check your block legacy authentication policy

Check your block legacy authentication policy

Please make sure your conditional access policy to block legacy authentication includes Exchange ActiveSync clients.
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 4 — Govern Azure AD B2B

Azure AD identity governance — Part 3 — Govern the resource lifecycle
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 3 — Govern the resource lifecycle

Azure AD identity governance — Part 3 — Govern the resource lifecycle

The blog series
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MIM — Cleanup Sets and Workflows

Two scripts, which can be helpful when cleaning up the portal configuration. First you should manually delete unnecessary MPR’s, then the…
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MIM — Check MV attribute existance with miis-powershell

Quick script to check if a attribute exists in the MV schema and to which ObjectTypes it’s bound. Using the miis-powershell modul.
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MIM — Extract AD MA pending exports of highly privileged accounts

Background
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 2— Govern identity lifecycle

The blog series
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Azure AD identity governance — Part 1 — The basics

I start this blog series with a quote from the Microsoft Docs on Azure AD identity governance.
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MIM — Cleanup orphaned Expected Rule Entries (ERE’s)

MIM — Cleanup orphaned Expected Rule Entries (ERE’s)

Microsoft Identity Manager offers several ways to control provisioning and deprovisioning to target systems. The following is a brief…
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MFA, 2FA, 2SV — What??? — Let’s improve terminology

In recent times there have been many discussions about the terms Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), Two Factor Authentication (2FA) and…
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Azure AD: Reasons for MFA prompts

Azure AD: Reasons for MFA prompts

Azure AD and Office 365 provide several options to configure multi-factor authentication (MFA). This can result in end-users being…
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German IT security tips for family and friends

German IT security tips for family and friends

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MIM — Group RCDC customization with OnChangeEmailEnabling event

MIM — Group RCDC customization with OnChangeEmailEnabling event

The hotfix rollup package (build 4.3.2266.0) for MIM 2016 introduced the ability to extend the list of attributes which are shown or hidden…
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MIMWAL ProxyAddressCollection Management

I have just published a guide for ProxyAddressCollection management with MIMWAL on GitHub.
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Lessons learned — Microsoft Teams, Planner and Guest Access

A non-technical blog post since I recently took on more project management tasks. This is a summary of my findings when using Microsoft…
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AAD conditional access with U2F token

AAD conditional access with U2F token

Options
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Identity resources from Microsoft Ignite 2017

I recommend the following identity and EM+S session’s:
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AIP news from Ignite 2017

AIP news from Ignite 2017

Azure Information Protection related announcements from Microsoft Ignite. The AIP product group frames the future for AIP in three…
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