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License on-demand with Power Automate and Azure AD

Most organizations are using group-based licensing in Azure Active Directory. This is often integrated with the onboarding process of the users. But there are some use cases where you have some non-standard licenses attached to your tenant that you hand out on demand. You could still use group-based licensing, but users are added manually to the group. Thinking about that scenario, I came up with a pretty easy method to automate this flow. In short: a user can request a… 

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Azure MFA authentication method analysis. Share the results with Power Automate!

You might have seen the sample script, created by the Microsoft community, to run some analysis on your Azure MFA authentication methods. This script can be used to make recommendations on how to improve each user’s MFA configuration. You can run the script against your tenant, and the results can be exported to a CSV file. Wouldn’t it be cool to share those results with your users straight away? With the use of Power Automate (Flow), we can easily send… 

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Use Microsoft Graph Security for end-user notifications

In this short blog post, I want to show how you can use the Microsoft Graph Security to send alerts and notifications to your end-users. I also want to show you that it is super easy to set up. All you need is: Power Automate or Logic Apps Microsoft Graph Security Connector (premium) Microsoft Teams or Email connector to send the messages One of the (Microsoft) security products to work with like Cloud App Security or Identity Protection Microsoft Graph… 

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Bulk dismiss risky users with Power Automate or Logic Apps

Update 08-10-2020: Microsoft released an official connector for Azure AD Identity Protection. This would be much easier to use, since you don’t have to create a service principal to authenticate the custom connector. However, at the time of writing the official connector does not have the action to get all the risky users. Will keep an eye on things. This blog was inspired by an Azure AD Mailbag blog about Azure AD Identity Protection. In the article, Microsoft provided a… 

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Prepopulate phone methods using a Custom Connector in Power Automate

Part 2 – Automation In the previous blog post of this series, I’ve shown you the use of the Graph API and how you could manually populate the phone methods for your users. Today, we are going to take it a step further. We’re going to add some automation with Power Automate by using a custom connector. What are we building? Today we are going to add a phone method for all your users using Power Automate and a custom… 

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Prepopulate phone methods for MFA and SSPR using Graph API

Part 1 – Graph API What is the number one task if we want to protect our identity? Right. Turn on MFA.What is the number one task our helpdesk is busy with all day (and night)? Right. Password Resets.What is the number one struggle when we want to implement security? Right. User experience.So, what are you gonna get by reading this blog post? Some light at the end of the tunnel. Buckle up! What’s the case here? I start at… 

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Use Power Automate as your Conditional Access Police Department

Last week, I was working on a new blog for the Secure Score Series regarding global admin and break glass accounts. I came to the point where I was thinking of possible scenarios that could go wrong with these accounts. What if someone accidentally added these users to a certain group? What if that group would be triggered in some policy or maintenance tasks? A lot of these actions can be discovered using Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Monitor.… 

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Use Power Automate or Logic Apps to keep an eye on your licenses

I guess we’ve all been there; you ran out of licenses in your Azure AD or Office 365 tenant. Despite you hang out in your admin portal every day, you were still taken by surprise when you discover an issue, caused by a license shortage. More often this is caused by the fact that the people who are responsible to buy these licenses, are not always IT admins. So it’s easy to run out of licenses. Time to get this… 

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Use Graph API data in Power BI using Logic Apps

Some things in the modern connected world seem so common that you just assume it’s possible by nature. Getting your Microsoft Graph API data into Microsoft Power BI for example. That must be easy peasy right? Well…. When I start looking for ways to do this, I assumed there was a builtin connector available in Power BI that I could use. Guess what? There is not (yet). There is a connector for the Microsoft Security Graph, but that one “only”… 

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Use Power Automate for your custom “dynamic” groups

Azure AD Dynamic Groups Dynamic groups in Azure AD are awesome. I use them a lot. Dynamic groups can create groups based on attributes. For example, you can create a group that includes all the users from the Sales Team. The query for the group would look like this: If a new user comes along with the same attribute, the user will automatically be added to this group. This can be really helpful for onboarding. You can pick a lot… 

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