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Azure AD / Intune – Local Administrator Password Solution is now generally available

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It has been a long awaited capability and has been in preview for quite some time. In preparation for its general availability, Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) has been included in Windows – both client and server – thanks to the April updates (see https://t.co/8fpzOY7f7x). Well, good news as LAPS is now generally available – …

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Azure AD – You can now publish multiple internal URLs with a single Application Proxy and validate backend SSL certificate

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As you may know, you can publish internal web applications using Azure AD Application Proxy. Until now, when you had to publish multiple different internal URLs, you had to create one Application Proxy for each URL. Well, good news as now you can publish multiple internal web application using only one Application Proxy. The first …

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Azure AD – Update your Conditional Access policies if you are using ‘require approved client app’ before March 2026

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If you are using the grant control ‘Require approved client app’ in your Conditional Access policies, you need to update and migrate to use the grant control ‘Require application protection policy’ before March 2026. At this date, the control ‘Require approved client app’ will no longer be enforced and will act as if it was …

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Azure AD – You can use conditional access for PIM (preview)

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As you know with Azure AD (P1 or P2) you can protect access to your workloads using Conditional Access. Well, you can now also use Conditional Access when used with PIM (Privileged Identity Management) (in preview), or more specifically when protected actions are being used. The below protected actions are currently supported: Update basic properties …

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Azure AD – New authentication method – Authenticator Lite (preview)

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A new authentication method called Authenticator Lite is available in preview. Authenticator Lite allows end-users to perform multifactor authentication without the Microsoft Authenticator app. Some end-users may be reluctant to install corporate applications on their mobile device or in some country/region there is a legal requirement for employers to provide corporate mobile phone if corporate …

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Azure AD – You can now use Token Protection with Conditional Access (preview)

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You know that you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to secure access to your resource by enforcing MFA, device compliance… Well, Azure AD Conditional Access has been updated to allow you use Token Protection. Token Protection attempts to reduce attacks using token theft by ensuring a token is usable only from the intended device. …

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Azure AD – New recommendations for applications (preview)

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About a year ago, Microsoft has introduced Azure AD recommendations to help you improve your Azure AD security posture (see https://t.co/92sR2y0bR4). Well, these recommendations have been updated to introduce recommendations for Azure AD applications. While the first recommendations apply to all Azure AD license, these new recommendations for applications require Azure AD P2. The available …

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Azure AD – You easily get Azure AD error code meaning

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Have you ever try to figure out what the error code from Azure AD is meaning? While Microsoft has been trying to provide meaningful information when the error occurs, sometime it is more complicated and not easy to find answer. Well, good new, you can use this Microsoft site https://login.microsoftonline.com/error – you will notice this …

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Azure AD – You can now enable suspicious activities reporting (preview)

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If you have been using the on-premises Azure MFA server (which by the way is going to be fully deprecated – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-multifactor-authentication-server-will-be-deprecated-30-september-2024/) you already know that end-users were able to report suspicious activities. Well, this was a missing feature on Azure AD MFA which is now becoming available. First you need to enable it (this …

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Azure AD – You can now set an Azure AD Application Proxy app in maintenance mode

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If you use Microsoft Cloud services, you know that identity and access control is managed by Azure AD. Azure AD which comes with a feature called Azure AD Application Proxy to allow you publishing internal applications without configuring your firewall and can integrate with Azure AD for authentication and access control (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy/ to know …

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