Next week it’s time again for the annual Workplace Ninja Summit in Lucerne, Switzerland. The summit will start on Monday September 16th till Thursday September 19th. The Workplace Ninja summit is organized by the different Workplace Ninja user groups and consists of many Microsoft community heroes like Mirko Colemberg, Thomas Kurth, Daniel Schädler, Kenny Buntinx,…
Category: AzureAD
Speaking at the February 2024 Azure APE Meetup
Today (Tuesday February 27th) I have the pleasure to speak at the February 2024 Azure APE Meetup organized by the Azure Platform Engineering (APE) community. The event, which is hosted by ShareValue, is held in Gouda, the Netherlands and starts at 18:00. At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id Conditional Access,…
Speaking at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community
Tomorrow (Thursday January 25th) I have the pleasure to speak at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event organized by the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The event, which is hosted by The Collective offices, is held in Zele, Belgium and starts at 17:00 At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id Conditional…
What is this Microsoft SSE solution that everyone is talking about?
On July 11th, Microsoft announced that Azure AD would be renamed to Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft also announced two new security offerings called Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access as part of a Security Service Edge (SSE) solution. SSE covers the security aspects of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. In…
What problem do passkeys solve?
Sometimes unlearning things is harder than learning As you might have read somewhere Microsoft is busy implementing support for passkeys in their product. I was always under the impression that these passkeys were device bound, meaning that it must be available on the device where you authenticate. Yesterday I watched an announcement video about upcoming…
Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) about Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access
This week, the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) is held between November 27 – 30 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. The event which will attract thousands of visitors and will feature more than 140 amazing speakers on a diverse set of topics related to Microsoft 365. At this event, I have the pleasure of speaking about Microsoft…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Summit, September 27-29 2023
Starting on Wednesday September 27, till Friday September 29 the Workplace Ninja Summit which is an in-person event will take place in Baden, Switserland. This event is organized by the diverse Workplace Ninja User Groups throughout the world which provide delegates helping to organize this 3 day event. The event will have more than 100,…
Speaking at the Cloud Identity Summit 2023, on September 7th 2023
On Thursday September 7th, the annual Cloud Identity Summit will take place as an in-person event in Koblenz Germany. This event is organized by Thomas Naunheim, Gregory Reimling and René Wasel, you can find more information about them here. At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id/Azure AD Conditional Access in my…
Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context now also available for Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
Microsoft has extended the capabilities of Azure AD authentication context to Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM). By doing this we can trigger a Conditional Access policy to be executed at the moment someone elevates their role using Azure AD PIM. This functionality is now in preview. In June 2021 I already provided a first…
December 2022 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.
I’m proud to announce the December 2022 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fifth 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…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 3: Granular control for external user types
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 2: Conditional Access filters for Apps and Workload Identities
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 1: Authentication Strength
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Speaking about Conditional Access at Experts Live Netherlands 2022 on September 30 in Den Bosch
Besides helping organizing Experts Live NL 2022 in my role as speaker manager together with Erik Loef, I’m also happy to announce that I will be speaking at this amazing event as well. My session will be about: Azure AD Conditional Access Demystified, a topic on which I already presented before and written some extensive…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja Summit 2022 on September 12th in Luzern Switzerland
After speaking virtually on the Workplace Ninja Summit 2020 and Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, I’m really proud to announce that I will also speak the Workplace Ninja Summit 2021, and this time it’s an in-person event. The Workplace Ninja Summit 2022, is an in-person event held from September 12th till September 14 in Luzern Switzerland….