Azure Active Directory 13 - Benoit's Corner

Office 365 – End-users will be able to manage their language and Regional Settings

As you know, end-users language and regional settings are very important when working with Office 365 as it defined lot of things – from correct working hours to date and time display. Well, end-users will be able to manage their language and regional settings from the Azure AD My Account (https://myworkaccount.microsoft.com/) This option will be […]

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Intune – You can now continue Autopilot Hybrid Azure AD Join process even if your AD domain is not reachable

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / Benoit HAMET / June 24, 2020 / Autopilot, ECM, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Hybrid AAD Join, Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join, Hybrid Azure AD Join, Intune, Skip AD Connectivity Check

By now, you already know Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager Autopilot which allows you to give your end-users new devices without having to build them (or even get them refreshed). You may already know that you can also perform an Azure Active Directory Hybrid Join process (aka registering the device in Azure AD and in your on-premises

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Azure AD – Start moving from ADAL and Azure Graph API to use MSAL

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / June 23, 2020 / AAD, ADAL, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Authentication Library, Azure AD, Azure Graph API, Microsoft Authentication Library, MSAL

If you develop applications with identities capabilities (like authentication or self service registration or profile management) and have been using the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) or Azure Graph API, it is now time for you to update your code to start using the new Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). Both ADAL and Azure

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Azure AD – The Trusted/Named Locations blade has a new experience (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / June 18, 2020 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Named Locations, Trusted Locations

If you work with Azure Active Directory (AAD, Azure AD), you should already know the Named Locations (also known as Trusted Locations) settings which allows you to define a list of IP addresses or ranges to be marked as trusted or not and then can be used with Conditional Access. Well, the administration experience for

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Azure AD – You can now use an Alternate Login ID to sign in (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / June 18, 2020 / AAD, Alternate Login ID, Authentication Methods, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD

For those who have been working with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), you already know you could configure an Alternate Login ID to sign in with your AD FS environment. An Alternate Login ID allows you to use your email address instead of your UPN (User Principal Name) to sign in. As a best

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Azure AD Connect – A new version of Azure AD Connect has been released and supports the v2 endpoint API

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / June 1, 2020 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect

By now, you should already know that Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is the directory synchronization tool used to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory identities to Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, AAD Connect just got an upgrade (version 1.5.30.0) which support the new Azure AD Connect sync V2 endpoint API (currently in preview –

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Security – The Authenticator Application now provides a full screen experience and allow to manage the ‘display code’ for all account at once

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Office 365, Security / Benoit HAMET / May 29, 2020 / Authenticator App, Authenticator Application, MFA, Multi Factor Authentication

By now you should already know the Microsoft Authenticator application used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing Microsoft services (Microsoft Accounts, Office 365, Azure….) but also other services like Facebook, Google or LinkedIn. Well, the Authenticator application has been updated to provide 2 new nice features: Display/Hide codes for accounts using code only for MFA

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Azure AD – You can now enable your Azure AD to support external identities

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / May 22, 2020 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, External Identities, External Identity

As you know, Azure AD allows you and your end-users to invite external people to access resources and applications (the so called Guest) account but this required you had a Microsoft identity. After allowing the use of one-time password authentication and guest access for Google account, you can now extend guest access to any identity

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Azure AD – Developers can now enable Publisher Verification for their Azure AD applications

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / May 21, 2020 / AAD, AAD Application, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Application, Azure AD, Azure AD Application

Announced at the Build 2020 online conference, Microsoft Partners developing application for Azure AD can now set them as verified. This apply for Microsoft Partners as you required to define your MPN (Microsoft Partner Network) ID, but as you can register for free as a Microsoft Partners you can also register your own organization to

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Azure AD – New settings for user consent (preview)

After introducing the user consent admin workflow (see https://t.co/A9bFP2HCec) in November last year, Microsoft has introduced new settings for User Consent. These new settings allows you to define for which type of application end-user can consent permissions as well as how group owner can define the user consent settings for the applications they own. These

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