We often get the question how to we setup Azure AD B2B direct connect with Mindcore. So why not create a blog post regarding this topic, that also show the required setup. Why do we want to do this in the first place? Because we want to use Shared Channels
When we use Windows Hello for Business and a user forgets the PIN, it can be reset directly from the sign-in page. By default, this will be a destructive PIN reset, the existing PIN, and underlying credentials, including any keys or certificates added to their Windows Hello container, will be
We have a lot of customers who use Windows Hello for Business Azure AD joined Key trust. But now that Windows Hello for Business cloud trust is available (preview), we expect to see a move towards Cloud Trust, maybe this could also be interesting for your setup? Key trust is
When we share data In SharePoint with a user outside our directory, SharePoint will by default use a one-time code sent to the user so the user can verify their identity. This is also the case with OneDrive and if you do it from teams using open in SharePoint. But
This time we will take a closer look at the new group writeback functionality in Azure AD. I really think this will open a lot of possibilities also on-premises. Prerequisites Azure AD Premium license Azure AD Connect version 2021 December release or later. Enable Azure AD Connect group writeback But
This is the first video on the brand new MEM tips and tricks YouTube site created by Mindcore’s Mattias Melkersen. The place to see and learn practical endpoint management skills in the real world.
This time we will have a closer look at Identity Protection and possible impact for guest users (B2B collaboration users). So in order to test this out we will create a Identity protection user risk policy requiring all users to change password if there risk is calculated to medium
With the massive growth of Microsoft Teams since the start of the global COVID19 pandemic and Microsoft’s focus on pushing Teams as its primary collaboration interface. Organisations are now looking at how Teams can be used to optimise their End User experience by customising the solution to meet their
Old habits die hard when implementing new technologies for end users. The new world of Modern Workplace and working with online files can be a big jump for some users in your organisation, so it is nice to know that there are ways of making things feel a little
Have you ever wondered how you restrict users from editing documents in Microsoft Teams? Since the start of the COVID19 pandemic Microsoft Teams usage has grown by 70% to 44 million daily users. So, with such a popular tool there is no wonder that people have started to
Now that we have tenant attach available let’s have a closer look. Microsoft is now bringing Configuration Manager and Intune closer together in a the console Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/). Starting in Configuration Manager version 2002, we can upload Configuration Manager devices to the admin center and start
When our clients get unwanted guests, one thing they will often try is to disable Windows security features, like our antivirus protection. Now with the right license in place we can prevent this from occurring, the following actions can be prevented: Disabling virus and threat protection Disabling real-time protection Turning
In our original series on Windows Virtual Desktop we used a standard file server to host the FSLogix Profiles, this was the only option at the time – if used together with our on-premises Active Directory. Now it’s possible to use Azure file shares and on-premises Active Directory together (Preview
Last year we wrote about Azure AD and password-less sign-in http://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/07/azure-ad-and-password-less-sign-in.html Now we also have support (Public preview) for this in hybrid environments, so let’s try it out. We will use the same Yubico security NFC as last time. First thing we need to be aware of is that we
This is part 5 of our posts regarding Windows Virtual Desktop, until now we have covered: Part 1 – Created a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant – Part 1 Part 2 – Created a service principal and some customization of our on-premises AD – Part 2 Part 3 – Provisioning a
This is part 4 of our posts regarding Windows Virtual Desktop, until now we have covered: Part 1 – Created a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant – Part 1 Part 2 – Created a service principal and some customization of our on-premises AD – Part 2 Part 3 – Provisioning a
This is part 3 of our posts regarding Windows Virtual Desktop, until now we have covered: Part 1 – Created a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant – Part 1 Part 2 – Created a service principal and some customization of our on-premises AD – Part 2 In this part we will
This is part 2 of our posts regarding Windows Virtual Desktop, until now we have covered: Part 1 – Created a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant – http://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/11/windows-virtual-desktop-part-1.html Now let’s continue and create a service principal. We will create the service principal with PowerShell, in order to do that you will
This time we will take a look at Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure. We will connect this cloud solution to our own infrastructure so that we can use on-premises services as well. In order to make this work we already have a Site-to-Site VPN gateway connection setup to connect our
On Tuesday we identified a “funny” little thing when using the web version of outlook. If we invited an internal user to a meeting and that user only had two letters in his alias the invite failed (xx@domain.com), invitations to internal people with mail addresses that had more that two
In the last two post we looked at extending Azure AD with our own attributes http://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/10/azure-ad-extension-attributes.html and how to use this attribute to dynamically grant access to a Microsoft team http://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/10/access-to-teams-based-on-our-own.html. This time we will create the team and dynamic group using PowerShell instead. In order to do this we
In our last post we looked at extending Azure AD with our own attributes http://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/10/azure-ad-extension-attributes.html Now let’s try to dynamically allow access to a Microsoft team based on the attribute. First we create a Team in Microsoft teams. In teams we create a new private team called TestTeam. We will
This time we will try to extend our Azure AD directory with a new attribute, we will in a later post use this attribute for dynamic groups and team access. But let’s get started, we will in this test attach the extension attribute to users, but it can be assigned
This time we will take a closer look on how easy it is to onboard clients into Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection with System Center Configuration Manager. First we will go the the Microsoft Defender Security Center https://securitycenter.windows.com/ On this page we select Settings – Onboarding – Windows 10 –
Since we now have Azure Bastion in preview it’s time to take a closer look. Azure Bastion will allow us to have private RDP and SSH access to our Virtual Machines from a HTML5 Web Browser over SSL. We can do this without using public IP address on the VM.
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