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Self Service in Microsoft 365

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:58:38 +0000

One of the great things about Azure Active Directory is the capability of self-service. Maintaining security groups can be a laborious and cumbersome task to do. The same applies to resetting passwords, handing out licenses, permissions, applications, and privileged roles. What if I told you that you can delegate most of these tasks to your end-users, their managers, or product-and application owners? In this blog post, I will show you the built-in capabilities of self-service in Azure Active Directory, which is underlying to Microsoft 365. Some of them you might already know, some might be new to you.

License on-demand with Power Automate and Azure AD

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 15:49:41 +0000

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.

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This post is outdated.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#

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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.