If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID. You also then probably know that you can register custom applications to integrate with Entra ID authentication and access control capabilities. Entra ID can also be used for segregating corporate […]
If you use Microsoft Entra ID, you most likely already know you can also use it for external identities management, and I’m not talking about guest account in your M365 tenant for collaboration. This feature, used to be called B2C (business to consumer) tenant, now called External Identities tenant is used to use a dedicated
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As you know if you use Entra for managing identity and access controls to Microsoft Cloud services, such as Entra ID or M365, you have corresponding Entra ID administration roles to delegate the least privileges permissions to allow users, mostly IT peoples, to execute their tasks. This means when there is no capabilities or features
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As part of a correct Azure governance, you need to implement alerts to be alerts in case something wrong arise. As part of such alerts, you need to implement service health alerts too. However, unfortunately you had to set such health service alerts for every single Azure subscription and do it all over again for
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If you are using M365 services, you most likely are using Microsoft Teams too. Microsoft Teams allows end-users to communicate/collaborate with external users from other tenant. While external collaboration/access to Teams is by default widely open, this can raise security concern due to raising fake/rogue tenant. Teams administrators can manage communication with external users by
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If you use Azure services, especially storage account, you already know that most services provide a failover capability – mostly unmanaged/unexpected – in case the primary location is becoming unavailable for various reasons. Well, for storage account, until now only unexpected unavailability would triggered an automatic failover, depending of the storage account redundancy. This is
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If you have been using M365, you probably already know that you are able to recover some deleted objects. Until now, deleted group recovery was only possible for M365 Groups (including Teams) but not for security, mail-enabled or synchronized groups. After the recent recovery feature update to recover deleted Conditional Access policies and locations (see
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If you are using Microsoft cloud solutions (M365 or Azure), you already know that authentication and access control to these services rely on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Then you know Entra ID administrators can control authentication methods supported for authentication against the tenant (from MFA to QR code or OATH tokens). One authentication
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If you use Microsoft Intune to manage your devices fleet, you already know that it can gather some device hardware details. Well, good news as now you can get more detailed hardware information from your Windows devices, covering more details about CPU, battery, hard drives, BIOS version or SIM information. To enable this capability you
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As IT administrator, you may want/need to remove preinstalled/default Windows Store apps (such as Solitaire, Feedback hub or Clipchamp). Until now, you had either to use script or deploy these applications from Intune in uninstall mode. Unfortunately, this does not block end-user to install again these applications (even if they eventually will be uninstalled again).
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