On Friday, the 19th of March, I spoke at the 2103 virtual meetup of the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland. During this event which lasts a whole day I presented two sessions. One, together with Erik Loef was about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about?” and the other one was about: “Designing…
Have you already started your journey towards Passwordless authentication on your Modern Workplace?
One of the main Identity related topics during Microsoft Ignite March 2021 edition was passwordless. Microsoft announced at the event that passwordless authentication is now generally available, and Microsoft is now urging their customers to start their journey towards passwordless. As the name implies, going passwordless means that we will get rid of passwords for…
Enable external sender identification in Exchange Online
Microsoft has rolled out a new feature in Exchange Online called External Sender Identification. It allows for tags to be added to email messages coming from outside of your organization. So what will happen is that Outlook will display a new tag on emails called “External” in the message list. In some Outlook clients, the…
Create Powershell Session is failed using OAuth when using the Exchange Online V2 PowerShell module
Update: Since September 2022, the v3.0 PowerShell module of Exchange Online is available, which when used solves this issue as well. You can update your existing PowerShell module by running the following command. Update-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement Today, while wanting to check some settings in our Exchange Online environment, I ran into an issue where the…
A first look at the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center
The Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, available via https://config.office.com provides a portal where admins can manage Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise is a subscription that comes with premium apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Publisher, and Access (Publisher and Access are only available on PC). The apps can be…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #21, Tuesday March 16, featuring Patrick van den Born and Rick Stijnman
For next week, Tuesday, March 16 we are proud to announce that Patrick van den Born and Rick Stijnman will be hosting a session about: Deploying Windows 10 Multi User with Azure DevOps, Terraform and Packer Session abstract: At the moment, terms such as DevOps, SCRUM, Infrastructure-as-Code, WVD, Cloud, etc. are all kinds of things…
Modern Workplace Management key takeaways from the Microsoft Ignite March 2021 announcements
This week, during the virtual Ignite event Microsoft made several announcements related to the Modern Workplace. The event started yesterday (March 2nd) at 17:00 hours in my time zone (Amsterdam) with a keynote held by Microsoft CEO: Satya Nadella. The keynote was related to Microsoft’s vision for the future of Mixed Reality running on top…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland 2103 virtual meetup on March 19, about Modern Authentication and Designing & Building MEM for Operations
On Friday, the 19th of March, I will speak at the 2103 virtual meetup of the Workplace Ninja User Group Switzerland. During this event which lasts a whole day I’m going to present two sessions. One, together with Erik Loef will be about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about?” and the other…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #20, Tuesday March 2nd, featuring Thomas Maurer
For next week, Tuesday, February 16 we are proud to announce that Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft will be hosting a session about: Manage and govern your hybrid servers using Azure Arc. Session abstract: Thomas Maurer shows you how you can manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure…
A first look at the settings catalog in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
With the 2101 Service Release of Microsoft Intune, released this week (February 1, 2021) Microsoft released a lot of new features. One of those features is the introduction of the settings catalog, which is now in preview. Microsoft describes the settings catalog as: “Settings catalog lists the settings you can configure, and all in one…
My presentation about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands
Yesterday, on Thursday February 16, I presented at the 19th Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands Tuesdays Webinar. My session, titled “Azure AD Conditional Access demystified” started at 16:00, and lasted around 75 minutes. This session, which I prepared based on the various articles I wrote about the subject is continuously updated to reflect my current…
February 2021 update of the Azure AD Conditional Access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.
I’m proud to announce the February 2021 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the third iteration of the whitepaper starting with the first one released in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing a lot of…
My presentation about Conditional Access at the Nordic Virtual Summit 2021
Today, on Thursday February 11, I presented for at the second day of the Nordic Virtual Summit 2021 event. The event was very well organized by several communities (A joint venture by #SGUCSE #SCUGDK #SCUGFI #MMUGNO and #MSEndpointMgr) in the Nordics and had more than 2000 people attending. The organizing team consists of well-known community…
First look at Access Reviews for guests in all Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups
In January, Microsoft announced that they released a public preview allowing entitled customers to create Azure AD access reviews for guest users across all Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups in the organization. By implementing Access Reviews, an identity governance feature you can review members of groups, enterprise applications and roles within your Azure Active…
Demystifying Windows 10 in cloud configuration
On February 2, 2021 Microsoft announced “Windows 10 in cloud configuration”, when reading the title I was immediately interested to find out what that meant. Hence, even Mary Jo Foley wrote an article on the subject: Microsoft makes available Windows 10 ‘in cloud’ configuration settings for IT admins Let’s dive in deeper and see. Microsoft…