Azure Active Directory

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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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Azure AD – New integration assistant for registered application in Azure AD (preview)

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As you Azure AD provides the ability to integrate with applications, either published through the marketplace, Azure AD Proxy (to publish internal apps) or by registering your own custom application. Well, as announced during the online Build 2020 event, the registered application feature has been updated to provide an integration assistant helping you fixing potential

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Azure AD – New Conditional Access full screen experience (preview)

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As you know, Azure Active Directory (AAD) comes with a security capability to setup conditional access based on various settings to manage and secure access to your applications. Well, the Conditional Access experience has been updated and is currently in preview (you can opt-in/opt-out at any time). You can start experimenting the new experience by

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Exchange Online – New support for OAuth authentication for SMTP, IMAP and POP

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If you are working with Exchange Online, chances are you have some components in your environment (applications, network devices…) which need to access mailboxes hosted in Exchange Online. Well, until now the only way for most of these components was to use POP/IMAP/SMTP connections; which we all know is not the most secure protocols. Good

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Azure AD – Delegate user management with My Staff (preview)

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Microsoft is providing easier way to manage user accounts without the need of a support call to your helpdesk. With My Staff, you can delegate some level of user management tasks to a delegated authority, like a manager or team leaser. This will help end-users stuck accessing their applications because they forgot their credentials (don’t

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Azure AD – You can now authenticate with text message (preview)

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As you know, Microsoft has embarked to a password-less journey by providing more secure authentication process with Windows Hello or FIDO2 security key. Well, the journey is continuing with a new way to authenticate with text messages. NOTE first, an important disclaimer as this is an early preview, there are some limitations: SMS-based authentication isn’t

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