Azure Active Directory

Azure AD – You can now create conditional access policies based on templates (preview)

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As you know you can secure access to your resources using Azure AD Conditional Access policies. Well, good news, it is now going to be easier to create Conditional Access policies thanks to the use of templates. To create Conditional Access policy using templates, connect to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) to access the Azure […]

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Azure AD – New security features are now available for Azure MFA

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As you know, you can secure access to your resources using Azure AD MFA and the Microsoft Authenticator application. Over the time, Azure AD MFA has been evolving to provide more features such as different authentication methods (like FIDO keys) or helping to start the password-less journey. Well, there have been several new features being

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Security – You can now change your password and update your security details directly from the Microsoft Authenticator app

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As you already know the Microsoft Authenticator application has been primarily used for multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the time the Authenticator app has evolved to allow you save your passwords, forms information or even deliver a password-less experience during authentication. Well, you can now also use the Authenticator to change your password. To do so,

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Azure AD – You can now have insights on your Conditional Access policies

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If you use any Microsoft cloud solution, you are also using Azure Active Directory to manage users, groups and devices. If you use Azure AD, you may also have implemented Conditional Access policies to protect and secure access to your data. Well, good news as now you can also get insights and reports on your

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Azure AD Connect – A new major version is available and there are few things you need to know

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If you are using Office 365 and/or Azure AD and have an on-premises Active Directory, you already know that you can synchronize your on-premises directory with Azure AD using Azure AD Connect. As you may already be using Azure AD Connect, you (should) also know that you need to keep up with the Azure AD

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Azure AD – New administration role available to delegate Windows Updates settings

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A new Azure Active Directory administration role is available – called Windows update deployment administrator – to delegate Windows Updates deployments through Windows Update for Business. This role allows you to delegate Windows Update for Business settings like when and how updates are deployed to devices. This will help you delegate Windows Update for Business

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Azure AD – New way to find the BitLocker recovery key

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As you know when you enable BitLocker with Intune you have the option (highly recommended by the way) to save the recovery key into Azure AD. Well, when you have to get the recovery key for a device and you don’t know the device name (which may happen if you need the recovery during a

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Azure AD – New administration role available to delegate administration of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)

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As you know, Azure AD comes with administration roles to allow you delegate administration tasks with the least privilege. Well, until now if you wanted to delegate Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) administration tasks you had to use either the Security Administrator or Global Administrator roles. Both granting much more permissions than required for MCAS.

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Azure AD – You can now review the access of service principals

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As you know Azure AD comes with a capability to review access to your environment – both Teams/O365 groups and Azure AD Roles assignment. Well, you can now also review the access of service principals with Azure AD role assigned to it. To take advantage of this new review capability, logon to your Azure AD

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Azure AD – You can now grant third party application review to groups and/or administration roles

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As you know, Azure AD allows you to integrate with applications to manage authentication, authorization… through Azure AD. As part of this integration, you can (and should have) configure third party application integration review to ensure these third party applications added by users or other admins are intended for your company and do not access

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