Azure
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
I’m going to continue my recent look at securing your Office 365/Azure AD directory with a quick dive into using Conditional Access rules to protect your directory’s most prized asset - accounts with admin roles.
These are roles that can be used to accomplish admin tasks within your organisation’s Office 365/Azure AD and Azure estate and they are important because they are essentially the keys to the kingdom. While you should be looking to secure all your accounts because all your users probably have access to sensitive information, systems or services; admin accounts are the accounts that give their user access to your entire estate in one or two leaps.
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Sunday, July 5, 2020
As the pace of attacks continues against companies who use online services, major IAM providers such as Microsoft and Okta are looking for ways to improve theirs and your security game.
I was fortunate enough to attend the 2019 Okta forum in London and one of the drums Okta beat throughout the entire presentation was Passwordless Authentication. Microsoft are also recommending this as a major improvement to Office 365/Azure security even on top of MFA.
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Friday, July 3, 2020
I suspect most of you reading this article will already know this, but part of Microsoft’s Azure AD (AAD) / Office 365 Cloud directory service that you get when you pay for premium AAD is Conditional Access (CA), which can be used to allow quite sophisticated access controls for accessing Office 365 resources.
Of course, you get basic Office 365 MFA with the basic Office 365 enterprise product, and you should absolutely look into enrolling your users and turning this on straight away if that is what you have.
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Saturday, May 11, 2019
Introduction When talking about how Intune works with a colleague, I likened assembling a working Intune configuration to protect corporate devices and data to working with small pieces of Lego to build a house. The reason for this comparison is that a managed Intune environment is built up of lots of different components that can all be slotted together - or left out - to build the environment you want.
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
Introduction to Microsoft Mobile Device Management I'm currently settling in to a new job where I'm spending a fair amount of time working with Microsoft's Mobile security management tools, mostly Microsoft Intune. This is largely what I was doing towards the end of my old job too, and while there's some great people writing great material out there, I think there's a lack of articles that try to start at the beginning with current (as of April 2019) tools and pull all the strands together, so that's what we're going to talk about here.
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Sunday, August 26, 2018
Introduction So I think a lot of us take backups for granted. It's one of those things you look at once and then tend to not worry about too much. As long as its working, why worry? Except… if you don’t look at it, how do you know how well its working? I’m talking from the viewpoint of a senior engineer or manager here of course, hopefully if you’re a junior engineer who has been put in charge of backups you’re making sure that the current system works well and telling people about any concerns you might have.
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Thursday, August 23, 2018
IntroductionOne of the new features in Windows 10 1803 is the ability for "local Active Directory" Domain joined workstations to allow users to reset their password from the login screen. This was introduced for Azure Active Directory joined systems in Windows 10 1709. In this post I’m quickly going to run through what you need to do in order to configure this for your domain. I’m making the following assumptions:
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
At work I tend to turn up to meetings with a MacBook Pro. This surprises a few people who know me as a former Microsoft MVP, a Windows Server/Infrastructure person and the manager of a IT system that is predominantly Windows based.
The MacBook Pro isn’t ideal; it’s a 15" 2010 model and it is starting to be a problem. Even with a SSD installed, it’s starting to get slow and cranky when it comes to waking up.
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