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Dynamic Administrative Units using on-prem Organizational Units

May 31, 2022June 1, 2022
Azure AD
4 min read

Gone are the days that I could start a workshop, session, or training with: “Do you know the big difference between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory? Azure AD is flat, where AD is not.” Well…… If there is one thing I’ve learned over the last years: it’s hard to do Zero Trust in a flat landscape. Lucky for us, we have Administrative Units nowadays. I really love Administrative Units (AUs) as they bring scoping to Azure AD. Until recently,…

Get started with Azure AD B2B direct connect

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022
Azure AD
7 min read

We all love seamless collaboration, right? Well, here’s a new feature that might improve that experience. Today, we will talk about Azure AD’s cross-tenant access settings, and in particular, about Azure AD B2B direct connect. What is B2B direct connect? B2B direct connect is part of the cross-tenant access settings in Azure AD. These settings will give you granular control over how external Azure AD organizations collaborate with you (inbound access) and how your users collaborate with external Azure AD…

KB – Reset cross-tenant access policies back to the system default.

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
Azure AD
2 min read

This is a knowledgebase item. Hope it helps you out someday. The issue Changes have been made to the default settings in the Azure AD cross-tenant policies. You want to revert them, but there is no button in the Azure portal UI to do that (at the moment of writing this article) Solution This can be done using the Graph API. The easiest way is using Graph Explorer. So, how does that work? Browse to https://aka.ms/ge, and make sure that…

Multi-stage approval for privileged roles using Azure AD Identity Governance

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022
1 Comment
Azure AD, Security
7 min read

Privileged Identity Management is a great feature within Azure AD to provide just-in-time access to your admin roles and Azure resources. But some roles may require an extra level of security, for the simple fact the role is highly privileged, and (hopefully) rarely used. With the current capabilities, you are able to activate an approval step, but that is only limited to one approver. In this article, I will show you how you can use Azure AD Identity Governance to create…

KB – mobile phone number not in sync Azure AD Connect

May 1, 2022May 1, 2022
Azure AD, Knowledgebase
2 min read

This is a knowledgebase item. Hope it helps you out someday. The issue Some users reported that the mobile phone number in Azure Active Directory / Office 365 was different from the number in on-prem Active Directory. Even though these users were synced with Azure AD Connect, the mobile phone attribute was no longer in sync. Cause After some investigation, it seemed that the affected accounts were previously edited with the Set-MsolUser cmdlet from the MSOnline PowerShell module. To make…

Download Intune PowerShell scripts with Graph Explorer

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
1 Comment
Azure AD, Intune
3 min read

This quick post will show an easy method to fetch your PowerShell scripts after you have uploaded them using the Intune management portal. Unfortunately, the portal does not provide a UI to download the script content as soon as you hit that save button. Graph Explorer to the rescue There are multiple ways to do this using PowerShell scripts. If you want to bulk download all the scripts in your tenant, I recommend using this method, created by Oliver Kieselbach.…

10 tips to secure your identities in Microsoft 365

March 21, 2022March 31, 2022
2 Comments
Azure AD, Security
19 min read

I was recently invited by the Dutch Virtual Desktop User Group to present a session about Identity Security. Now, because this was in Dutch (my native language), I decided to do a ‘short’ write-up in English, so everybody can benefit from this. I shared 10 tips on how to secure your identities, but not before I showed how easy it is to phish Office 365 credentials, even if they are protected with MFA. You can also check the recording in…

Get started with multi-stage access reviews in Azure AD

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022
1 Comment
Azure AD
6 min read

Access reviews, part of the Azure AD Identity Governance module, is a great feature to reduce the risk associated with stale access assignments. Administrators can use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to create access reviews for group members or application access. Reviews can be delegated to group owners, managers, or specific users, but there is also the self-review option where users can review their own access. By default, this is a single-stage process. Now in preview, there is the option…

KB – SelfServicePasswordReset write-back problem – error hr=80230818

February 21, 2022March 3, 2022
1 Comment
Knowledgebase
2 min read

This is a knowledgebase item. Hope it helps you out someday. Now, since you landed on this page, I assume you’ve got the following issue: Azure AD SelfService Password Reset worked like a charm for quite some time. All of the sudden it stopped working, and you have no idea why. You have checked the permissions on the service account, and all looks good. You are in a hybrid setup, and use password write back. All checkmarks are green. Azure…

ADMX ingestion for Centero Agent and Carillon Client using Intune

February 20, 2022February 20, 2022
Knowledgebase
4 min read

This article is about the ADMX templates for Centero Agent and Carillon client, that you can use to configure the settings on your endpoints. Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) is capable of ADMX ingestion, but this process can be complex sometimes. This article will explain the ADMX ingestion and has a couple of examples, on how to handle various settings. ADMX ingestion Before the client can use settings from the ADMX template, you need to ingest them with Microsoft Endpoint Manager/Intune…