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What admins should know about the combined registration portal for Azure MFA and Self Service Password Reset

Sat, 02 May 2020 12:06:20 +0000

This post is outdated. There is a new way to manage authentication methods#

The (long) title pretty much reveals the purpose of this blog post. This one was on my to-do list for a while now, and now the combined registration portal is General Available, the time was there. In my previous MFA-related blogs, I always encouraged my readers to turn on the combined registration portal, even when it was in public preview. But if you start using this portal, there are quite some settings that can change the user experience of the registration. And that’s mainly what this blog post is about. Let’s see how each setting reflects to the end user.

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 05 – Enable self-service password reset

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:09:13 +0000

In this series, I’ll be covering the Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions. Although Microsoft does a great job on telling you what to do, some actions have a much bigger impact and need to be balanced against business needs. Some actions might not even have value for your organization. In the end, Microsoft Secure Score is meant to strengthen your security, not a contest to reach the highest score possible. In this series, I’ll pick out random actions and try to make it as simple as possible, backed with notes from the field.

Secure your Azure Management portal

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:37:30 +0000

Today a quick tip to secure your Azure Management Portal. By default, the inactivity timeout of the Azure Management portal is set to ‘Never’. From a security perspective, this is far from ideal. This small setting can be easily overlooked. It’s a good idea to configure this for your tenant.