While browsing through the options in my Conditional Access policies I noticed a new session related to Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE). Time for a blogpost on my findings. Continuous access evaluation allows for a quicker response by forcing an access token refresh in case of a certain events taking place. In October last year I…
Month: October 2021
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Meetup #1, Thursday November 4th – Microsoft Ignite edition
For next week, Thursday November 4th, we are proud to announce that we are hosting our first on-premised event again. The event will be held in the Hollywoud Cinema in Almkerk the Netherlands, kindly hosted by our sponsor Proxsys. The topics on the event will all be about Microsoft Ignite, which is Microsoft’s annual gathering…
Speaking at the AppManagEvent 2021 about Designing and building Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Operations
On Friday, November 12th Professional Development Services is organizing its annual event AppManagEvent again. This in-person full day event which will take place at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During the event, there will be around 23 session by 18 different speakers on topics around Deployment, Security, Application Virtualization, MSIX, Win10/11/365 management, Identity Management,…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #32, Tuesday October 26, featuring Isidora Katanic, Holly Lehman and Nicole Enders #WomenInTech
For next week, Tuesday, October 26 we are proud to announce that we have a special edition of our #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar. This time, Isidora Katanic (Blog/LinkedIn/Twitter) and Holly Lehman (LinkedIn/Twitter) will host their “Head in the cloud, heart in the community” session. After that we also have Nicole Enders (Blog/LinkedIn/Twitter) hosting a session about:…
October 2021 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet
I’m proud to announce the October 2021 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fourth iteration of the whitepaper and accompanying files. I released the first version in in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Centric Craft webinar on Wednesday October 13, 2021
On Wednesday October 13, I will be speaking at the free online webinar hosted by Centric Craft. Craft is a community initiative from the company Centric which wants to contribute to the IT industry by sharing knowledge and helping all IT professionals develop themselves, even if they don’t work at Centric. My session will start…
Control Azure AD Conditional Access policy behavior during an Azure AD outage
In December last year, Microsoft announced that per April 1, 2021 they updated their service level agreement(SLA) for Azure AD user authentication from 99.9% to 99,99%. While this might seem like a small update in reality it makes a difference of 473 minutes (in a year with 365 days). With 99.9% the allowed downtime was…
With Windows Update for Business configured, will my devices automagically start updating to Windows 11?
Tomorrow, on October 5th Microsoft will make Windows 11 Generally Available. Many of my customers already asked if this will have any impact on their existing deployment rings. Here is what I know so far. Microsoft released the following documentation: Plan for Windows 11 and Prepare for Windows 11. On the page they mention the…
Using Mozilla Firefox as a browser when using Azure AD Conditional Access on your Modern Workplace
Starting with Firefox version 91, Mozilla is now supporting Single sign-on support (SSO) and device-based Conditional Access as announced by Microsoft in the What’s new in Azure Active Directory for August 2021. The feature is still in Public Preview from a Microsoft point of view, and considered Advanced and experimental from a Mozilla point of…