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February 18, 2020 / AAD

App admin consent workflow – What is looks like in action

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/configure-admin-consent-workflow By default, in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), users can consent to third party applications to access their organizational information – information pertaining to them from the organizational directory. Different permissions allow the application different levels of access to your users’ and your organization’s data. Some application have access to the user’s mailbox and …

January 31, 2020 / AAD

Conditional Access for the real world

Security AND accessibility at the same time I recently spoke at Microsoft Ignite: The Tour about Conditional Access in Azure Active directory and how many organisations tend to block access for their users. This post series is a review of the main takeaways from that talk. In today’s cloud-driven, software as a service productivity working …

January 10, 2020 / AAD

Switch on “Security Defaults” to secure your Azure AD tenant

One switch to enable the recommended security settings that will protect your tenant from common attacks. Baseline Policies Microsoft have had the intention of protecting your Azure AD tenant for a few years and have allowed administrators to enable any or all of the four baseline policies automatically created in Conditional Access in Azure AD. …

September 26, 2019 / Azure

Azure Sentinel (FAQ)

Cloud based SIEM for the people

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Conditional Access Policy - Client apps equals Other

May 28, 2019 / AAD

Block Legacy Authentication in Office 365

Why is Legacy Authentication BAD? Legacy Auth, or Basic Auth as it’s also called, is a term used to refer to authentication protocols used by applications that do not use Modern Authentication such as: Older Office clients (e.g., Office 2010 client) Clients that use mail protocols such as IMAP/SMTP/POP Modern authentication is based on the …

May 2, 2019 / Azure

News this week: 2 May 2019

Hi again. So it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I’ve been busy working and speaking at a couple of events. I spoke at SharePoint Saturday Cape Town on 13th April and I also spoke at Global Azure Bootcamp this Saturday the 27th April. GAB is a global event hosted by local …

March 28, 2019 / AAD

Down with passwords in Office 365!!

Enabling password-less phone sign-in with the Authenticator App for Office 365 / Azure AD So, the Password-less phone sign-in with the Microsoft Authenticator app documentation from Microsoft is pretty substantial, but I wanted to add some of my own notes from my experience in enabling phone sign-in on a tenant: TLDR: Admins Users Enable it …

March 20, 2019 / Azure

Secure RDP using Azure Firewall

I wanted to be able to port forward my RDP connections to VMs in Azure. I have done this before on my local virtual lab environment using PFSense.
In Azure I could deploy the open source PFSense from the marketplace but I thought I’d try it with the Azure Firewall instead because it supports source and destination Network Address Translation (SNAT and DNAT).

February 28, 2019 / Office 365

VIDEO: Portal Discussion with Nicolas Blank

Recently I visited The Cloud Architects and we had a discussion about my session at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Johannesburg.

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February 28, 2019 / Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

News update 27 February 2019

Hi again, in this video update I discuss some of the things that caught my eyes in the Office 365, Exchange, EMS and Azure space. Below are the topics and the links I discussed in the YouTube video. Please Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Exchange Space 13/02 You Had Me At EHLO – February 2019 …

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