This Thursday, I will visit and speak at the Cloud Identity Summit in Cologne, Germany. The Cloud Identity Summit is organized by Thomas Naunheim, Gregor Reimling and René Wasel. The Cloud Identity Summit is a hybrid event, were attendees can join both on location and remote via Teams. Sessions are not recorded though and even…
Speaking at the February 2024 Azure APE Meetup
Today (Tuesday February 27th) I have the pleasure to speak at the February 2024 Azure APE Meetup organized by the Azure Platform Engineering (APE) community. The event, which is hosted by ShareValue, is held in Gouda, the Netherlands and starts at 18:00. At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id Conditional Access,…
Speaking at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community
Tomorrow (Thursday January 25th) I have the pleasure to speak at the Cloud Guardians Unleashed event organized by the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The event, which is hosted by The Collective offices, is held in Zele, Belgium and starts at 17:00 At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id Conditional…
Speaking at the MCT Summit Europe 2024
This year, the annual Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) summit will be held in the Netherlands. The event which takes place between 14-17 January will take place at location “De Loods” in Rijswijk which is near The Hague. The event has a limited capacity of 200 attendees, which guarantees an intimate and engaging experience. At the…
What is this Microsoft SSE solution that everyone is talking about?
On July 11th, Microsoft announced that Azure AD would be renamed to Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft also announced two new security offerings called Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access as part of a Security Service Edge (SSE) solution. SSE covers the security aspects of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. In…
What problem do passkeys solve?
Sometimes unlearning things is harder than learning As you might have read somewhere Microsoft is busy implementing support for passkeys in their product. I was always under the impression that these passkeys were device bound, meaning that it must be available on the device where you authenticate. Yesterday I watched an announcement video about upcoming…
Configuring even better Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Intune managed Modern Workplace
In March 2021, I published the blogpost “Configuring Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Endpoint Manager managed Modern Workplace“, in that blogpost I described the Windows Update for Business (WUfB) configuration I used, based on the best practices defined by Microsoft defined in their paper titled: “Optimizing Windows 10 Update Adoption“, which is…
Speaking at the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) about Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access
This week, the European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) is held between November 27 – 30 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. The event which will attract thousands of visitors and will feature more than 140 amazing speakers on a diverse set of topics related to Microsoft 365. At this event, I have the pleasure of speaking about Microsoft…
Microsoft Intune Application Deployment Best Practices
In December 2012, I blogged about best practices for deploying applications using System Center Configuration Manager, and while many of those recommendations are still valid I thought it was worthwhile to update my recommendations for today’s world, deploying applications using Microsoft Intune. My Modern Workplace Application Vision Source: A framework for Windows endpoint management transformation…
Speaking at the Workplace Ninja Summit, September 27-29 2023
Starting on Wednesday September 27, till Friday September 29 the Workplace Ninja Summit which is an in-person event will take place in Baden, Switserland. This event is organized by the diverse Workplace Ninja User Groups throughout the world which provide delegates helping to organize this 3 day event. The event will have more than 100,…
Speaking at the Cloud Identity Summit 2023, on September 7th 2023
On Thursday September 7th, the annual Cloud Identity Summit will take place as an in-person event in Koblenz Germany. This event is organized by Thomas Naunheim, Gregory Reimling and René Wasel, you can find more information about them here. At this event, I will be speaking about Microsoft Entra Id/Azure AD Conditional Access in my…
Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context now also available for Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
Microsoft has extended the capabilities of Azure AD authentication context to Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM). By doing this we can trigger a Conditional Access policy to be executed at the moment someone elevates their role using Azure AD PIM. This functionality is now in preview. In June 2021 I already provided a first…
December 2022 update of the conditional access demystified whitepaper and workflow cheat sheet.
I’m proud to announce the December 2022 update of my Conditional Access demystified whitepaper. With this release, we have reached the fifth iteration of the whitepaper and accompanying files. I released the first version in in August 2019 after writing several blogposts on the subject. In May last year I released the second version containing…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 3: Granular control for external user types
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…
Conditional Access public preview functionality reviewed (22H2) – Part 2: Conditional Access filters for Apps and Workload Identities
In the last couple of months, Microsoft released new functionality for Azure AD Conditional Access. All of this functionality is still in public preview, so please read the following article on what to expect from Preview functionality: Preview Terms Of Use | Microsoft Azure In these series of articles I will go through the following…