Microsoft Intune
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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Monday, September 3, 2018
I talked previously about using Chocolatey for home use. It makes building a PC at home nice, simple and fast. It makes supporting non-technical friends and family nice and easy, ensuring you can build their computers how they want and keep them up-to-date with just a few simple commands (that can even be put in the scheduler, so neither you or they have to worry about them).
We’ve recently just completed a Windows 10 rollout at my college.
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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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