As you know, you can manage and configure your Windows Defender Firewall with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including rules. But what about if you already had configured GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) to manage and configure Windows Defender Firewall? Until now you had to manually replicate these rules into Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, good new, you can […]
Azure Firewall, the Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) from Azure, has been updated to allow you use Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) when setting up network rules. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and search for Firewall There edit your existing firewall (or create a new one) and access the Rule
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As you know, Azure Firewall is a cloud as a service (FWaaS) from Azure helping you to centrally managed traffic from Azure or to Azure. As you also know, firewalls (and not specifically just Azure Firewall) rely on correct name resolution to be able to work properly. Well, until now, Azure Firewall was hardcoded to
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As you know, troubleshooting endpoint performance or issues is not an easy task, especially when devices are now more frequently outside of the corporate network. To try simplify this task, Microsoft is introducing a new capability to Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager to provide analytics from endpoints to administrators. With the first release of Endpoint Analytics, you
As you already know, Office clients always open ‘unsafe’ documents (email attachment or downloaded from the Internet) in the well-known Protected View (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-protected-view-d6f09ac7-e6b9-4495-8e43-2bbcdbcb6653?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us) to block all active content (like links) or edition mode. That said, we all know also that end-users quickly turn off the Protected View without even checking if this action is safe.
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
As more and more working from home occur due to the current Covid-19 situation, Microsoft has partnered with Terranova Security to provide end-user training kit to make them more aware about phishing, malware and privacy to help organizations and individuals be better protected. These trainings (3 videos) will be available for at least 3 months
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As you know Azure Front Door Service (AFD) is the solution to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and instant global failover for high availability. Well, AFD is now allowing you to define specific rules to manage various sets of conditions and actions to redirect
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As you know, you can easily view sign-ins activities for a user in Azure AD, covering application accessed, device, location and more importantly conditional access policies applied. These details are useful for troubleshooting application access issues. Well good news, you can now also get the details of the Conditional Access policies applied during a sign-in
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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