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Access to Teams based on our own extension attributes – PowerShell

Lars Lohmann October 25, 2019

In the last two post we looked at extending Azure AD with our own attributes https://blog.mindcore.dk/2019/10/azure-ad-extension-attributes.html and how to use this attribute to dynamically grant access to a Microsoft team https://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

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Access to Teams based on our own extension attributes

Lars Lohmann October 15, 2019

In our last post we looked at extending Azure AD with our own attributes https://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

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Azure AD extension attributes

Lars Lohmann October 3, 2019

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

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Privileged Identity Management – Custom Roles

Michael Nielsen August 26, 2019

As I have mentioned earlier, I believe and hope that Microsoft will be implementing more and more self service features in Azure. This is because I believe that automation and self service are key components in a secure infrastructure, simply because manuel processes often are bypassed or not followed correctly.

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Microsoft Defender ATP

Lars Lohmann August 12, 2019

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 –

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Azure Bastion

Lars Lohmann August 5, 2019

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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Desktop Analytics

Lars Lohmann July 29, 2019

Desktop analytics is now available but only integrated with SCCM, so no Intune configuration for now, but let’s give it a test spin. We will start by clicking Desktop Analytics in Microsoft 365 Device Management or by using this direct link https://aka.ms/desktopanalytics Select Start. Then we need to Accept service

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Azure Sentinel

Lars Lohmann July 25, 2019

Since we have Azure Sentinel in preview, let’s give it a test spin. Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native security information and event manager (SIEM) platform that uses built-in AI to help analyze large volumes of data across the enterprise. Azure Sentinel aggregates data from a lot of sources, including users,

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ADMX files

Lars Lohmann July 23, 2019

This is an updated version of one of our very old articles ADMX files available Also take a look at this post about How to create and manage the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates in Windows And now we are talking policies – I would like to recommend

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Edge based on Chromium has updated policy options

Lars Lohmann July 19, 2019

Microsoft has declared the Edge ready for enterprise testing, and by doing so we now have MSI installers and new ADMX files. I have previously written that I am impressed by this new browser, and this has not changed, I still think that Edge (Chromium) has potential to be the

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Azure AD and password-less sign-in

Lars Lohmann July 12, 2019

One of the interesting solutions a lot of us has been waiting for is now in public preview – password-less sign-in with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). We have been able to use it with personal Microsoft accounts, but now we also can start testing with Azure AD accounts. So

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Entitlement Management

Michael Nielsen July 1, 2019

Intro As a security consultant I have been working for several companies over the years and have dealt with numerous issues surrounding Identity Management. One of the recurring challenges has always been granting the right amount of access for the right amount of time. Especially the latter part has been

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