Greetings folks! Approximately four-score and seven years ago (in cloud-years), I posted a blog with a stated intention of it being the first in a series about the modern Microsoft enterprise productivity platform. I assure you, that intention remains but it’s just taken me a teeeeeeeny bit longer than I’d expected to get to […]
Today a short blog about a new setting which will be introduced in the next major release of Windows 10, version 1809 or 1810, which is in preview at the moment of writing. This setting allows you to specify the preferred Azure AD Domain using a new Policy CSP setting under Authentication; PreferredAadTenantDomainName. For example […]
Fairly recently, I had a conversation with someone who lamented that Microsoft isn’t a security company and often they need to look to third-party products to fill the gaps. It is fair to say that’s a pretty common and reasonable view given the history of Microsoft in the security arena. Things have of course […]
With Azure AD you can provision access to SAAS apps for your end users and provide the password in advance so that the end user never actually knows what it is. This can be useful i.e. giving your marketing team access to the corporate twitter account without them ever knowing the password. This means you […]
Below is a simple process showing how to disable AD Connect using PowerShell. You may need to use PowerShell to do this if your AD Connect server is no longer accessible. (You cannot disable the sync from the Azure Active Directory GUI). On a machine which has internet access, open Powershell as an administrator. You […]
You now have the ability to sign into your Azure AD account without using a password. With the Authenticator app you can approve the sign in by selecting the correct number which is displayed on the login screen. To set this up you need to enable this at the tenant level first. To do this […]
In the previous two posts, we looked at two capabilities of Azure Information Protection (AIP) P1, which is one of the many subscriptions bundled into Microsoft 365 Business: Email encryption & customization Labels for classifying messages and documents Recent announcements have shifted the sands a bit here with so-called “Unified labeling“–which refers to a separate data classification […]
In this blog post I will show you how to secure access to your SharePoint Online data with just a few simple settings. I will show you how to block apps that don`t use modern authentication, so we can enforce multi-factor authentication. I will also show you how to only allow full access to your […]