Michael Morten Sonne, Author at Mindcore Techblog

Microsoft Purview – Enabling Sensitivity (Purview) Labels for documents in Teams

Michael Morten Sonne September 8, 2025

Introduction Microsoft Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance, compliance, and risk platform. It lets you discover, classify, label, protect, retain, and monitor data across Microsoft 365, On-Premises, multicloud, and SaaS sources. It centralizes policies (like sensitivity labels) to enforce consistent security and compliance. During our Governance workshops, we initiate the

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Azure Arc & Hybrid Workers – Simplifying Hybrid Cloud Automation Pr.1

Michael Morten Sonne July 28, 2025

What is Azure Arc Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that extends your Azure management and governance capabilities to your resources outside of Azure, and this can include on-premises servers, virtual machines, and other cloud environments. With Azure Arc, you can centrally manage, secure, and automate workloads across hybrid and

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Microsoft Defender XDR – Advanced Hunting – Custom Detection rules

Michael Morten Sonne July 23, 2025

In this small blog post, I will try to give you some insights on what Advanced hunting´s custom detection rules is – and how you can use it! Introduction Microsoft Defender XDR is a powerful security platform that uses AI, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to detect and respond to

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Entra ID – Managed Identity Permission Manager

Michael Morten Sonne April 8, 2025

Managing permissions for Managed Identities in Azure/Entra ID has been a long-standing challenge. Microsoft has yet not provided a built-in interface for this, leaving administrators reliant on PowerShell to handle permissions – even if the “same” exists for App Registrations and Enterprise Applications. To bridge this gap, I developed this

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Mandatory MFA enforcements is coming

Michael Morten Sonne October 3, 2024

Introduction In case you missed the update about the new announcement Microsoft is tightening security around Azure and Microsoft admin portals, by enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for all interactive sign-ins. This change has sparked a lot of questions across social medias, and in this post, I aim to address these

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Break Glass account – and how to get notified when a Break Glass account is used

Michael Morten Sonne May 4, 2023

This blog post is original from my own blog, re-posted here Introduction What is a Break Glass Account? Break Glass accounts are emergency access accounts that are used to access critical systems or resources when other authentication mechanisms fail or are unavailable. In Azure AD, Break Glass accounts are used to provide emergency access to

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