A client I recently worked with wanted to make sure only compliant devices could access corporate resources. This is a fairly common request and implementation, but they also wanted a compliance policy to make sure certain security applications were installed. This post will look at how custom compliance policies work and show you how to […]
This is a short holiday week for me, so this post is quick and basic. It’s surprising to me how many tenants I encounter that have no dynamic groups configured. Many IT teams are still manually adding/removing devices or users from assigned groups. For anyone not using dynamic groups, you need to start using them.
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How this started I did a project several months ago for a client who needed a few web shortcuts on the public desktop so they were available to any logged in user. The sites recommended chrome as the browser. So, the shortcuts were deployed to open with Chrome, which was not the default browser. If
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More often than not, I see both per-user MFA and Conditional Access MFA enabled in Azure AD tenants. There seems to be a misconception amongst IT admins that by disabling per-user MFA, users will need to re-register their MFA authentication methods. So, admins end up leaving per-user MFA enabled and also creating a Conditional Access
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This post describes a recent issue I had with BitLocker drive encryption. It started with Hybrid AAD joined devices showing successfully encrypted, but keys are not uploading to Azure AD, and the encryption settings were not really being deployed. Further investigation revealed a strange BitLocker state on most of the machines. If you find yourself in
Before I begin, you should not use Hybrid Azure AD Join unless the organization truly needs it. This was a unique situation where due to a compliance requirement, MDM needed to be implemented in less than a week. There wasn’t time to move to AADJ in the very short term. Therefore, it was decided to
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As organizations continue to expand their remote workforces, those refusing to adopt modern cloud solutions are neglecting tools that enhance mobility and productivity. They’re also putting corporate data at higher risk of compromise by not taking advantage of modern cloud security solutions. It wasn’t that long ago where nearly all employees were reporting to an
This is a quick post, but useful for anyone who has not stamped out basic authentication in their environment. Or perhaps you’ve inherited several new clients, or need to identify this across many clients. In any case, you can always use the manual method of signing into the Azure GUI and filtering sign-in logs, which
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