Yesterday, on Thursday January 21, I presented for the Workplace Ninja User Group München about one of my favorite topics “Conditional Access”. My presentation started right after the presentation of Sandy Zeng who talked about her top features of Endpoint Manager and how they changed over time. My session, titled “Azure AD Conditional Access demystified”…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL “Live – Ask us Anything” #1, on Tuesday January 26 about Security Awareness
Starting in January 2021, the Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands has started a new initiative, the “Live – Asks us Anything” sessions. During these sessions, hosted by Frans Oudendorp and Ronny de Jong we will invite one or several guests and talk about predefined subject. The session is live recorded and you are invited to…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #1, January 19, 2021 featuring Adnan Hendricks
For Today, January 19th we are proud to announce that our own Adnan Hendricks, Microsoft Azure MVP will host a session about: Azure AD Identity Protection. Session abstract: One of the advantages of Microsoft having many customers using its services is that Microsoft can leverage data from those customers and apply some real fancy Machine…
Speaking about Conditional Access at the Workplace Ninja Usergroup München on Thursday January 21st 2021
On Thursday, January 21st 2021 I’m honored to announce that I will be speaking at the Workplace Ninja Usergroup München meetup. The Workplace Ninja User Group München is run by Christian Lehrer, @chri_tea on Twitter and Maren Beuth. The meeting will start at 19:00 Central European Time, click here to find out at what time…
Rebranding the Windows Management User Group Netherlands to Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands
In February 2013 Bob Cornelissen, Marnix Wolf, Peter Daalmans and myself founded the Windows Management User Group Netherlands (WMUG_NL) foundation, an independent user group covering everything around the management of Windows environments. At that time our goal was to provide a platform for IT Pros to share experiences, tips and tricks. This can be done…
Defining more granularity for your Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions using Sensitivity Labels
In June this year I wrote an article about: Limit Access to Outlook Web Access, SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions, the article explains how you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to restrict downloading and printing within SharePoint Online/OneDrive and Outlook Web Access (OWA). Within that article we used a…
Designing and building your Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune environment for Operations
In my work as a modern workplace consultant, I see a lot of Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune environments. Many of these environments have been build based on trial and therefore it lacks structure and overview. Most of the environments have been built from scratch, adding and removing functionality until a point was reached where the solution…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 15 on December 1st, 2020 featuring Alex Verboon
For Tuesday, December 1 we are proud to announce that Alex Verboon, Cyber Security Consultant at baseVISION in Switzerland will host a session about: “Improving your security posture – Challenges and Solutions” Session abstract: In my daily work as a cyber security consultant I support my customers with improving their security posture. In this session…
Conditional Access demystified: My recommended default set of policies
In August last year, I published eight articles in a series on Conditional Access, and later once finished I decided to bundle those articles in a paper which are now available on GitHub. You can find version 1.1. of the Conditional Access demystified paper there. You can expect a new version coming soon, since I…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 14 on November 10, 2020 featuring Ronni Pedersen
For Tuesday, November 10 we are proud to announce that Ronni Pedersen, Cloud Architect at APENTO will host a session about: “How to get success with Windows Autopilot when everyone is working from home” Session abstract: Want to learn how you can get success with Windows Autopilot when everyone is working from home? Join Ronni…
Understanding and governing reauthentication settings in Azure Active Directory
Governing when users receive authentication prompts when authenticating to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is depending on more than one setting, on which functionalities are in use and also in which scenario you authenticate (Browser, Modern clients or other). Reauthentication can take place by asking for a single factor, like password, FIDO, the password less…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 13 on October 27th featuring Erik Loef and Kenneth van Surksum
For Tuesday, October 27th we are proud to announce that Erik Loef, CTO and Microsoft MVP at Proxsys, and Kenneth van Surksum, Modern Workplace consultant at Insight24 will host a session about: “What is this Modern Authentication everyone is talking about, and why you should phase out Legacy authentication?”
Mobile Application Management for Mobile Devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune deep dive
With Microsoft Intune, there is a lot of focus on the Mobile Device Management (MDM) aspects of the product. This is logical because from a management perspective, if you manage a device using MDM, you can configure almost all settings remotely, something we as System Administrators have been doing for many years. In many situations,…
Azure AD Continuous access evaluation (CAE), a first look
In April 2020 Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft announced that Microsoft was working on moving towards real time policy and security enforcement. The first implementation for this move is now available as an option you can enabled within Azure AD, called Continuous access evaluation (CAE). The functionality released in April was only…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 12 featuring Thijs Lecomte
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For Tuesday, October 13th we are proud to announce that Thijs Lecomte, senior Microsoft 365 consultant at The Collective Consulting and technical editor for the Microsoft 365 Security…