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Emergency break glass account best practices for Azure AD and Office 365
While Conditional Access and MFA in Azure and Office 365 are gaining popularity within corporate organizations, I often see people underestimating the importance of having a so-called "emergency access procedure", often referred as "break glass routine". In this blog...
Azure AD Connect soft- vs. hard matching explained
Synchronizing on-prem AD users against Azure AD can be a real challenge once you realize that (some of) your users aren't syncing the right way. In this blog post I'll explain the basics about the identity matching process as well as the key differences about soft and...
Tutorial: Automatically enforce MFA for admins in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
This tutorial explains how to automatically enforce Azure Multi-Factor Authentication on users with System administrator role assigned in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. For this purpose we consume the OData services of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations...
Removing Windows 10 bloatware using PowerShell
Anyone who's working with and administering Windows 10 will notice it comes with a bunch of (annoying and unnecessary) preinstalled apps and features. Fortunately there is an easy way to remove this bloatware using PowerShell. Richard Newton did a very good job by...
Top 5 reasons to backup Office 365
"Why should I backup Office 365? It's already included, isn't it !?"I'm afraid you're wrong 🙂 . A common misconception about the migration to a Cloud-based platform is the assumption that you no longer have to care about a backup strategy anymore since it's "already...
Tutorial: Enable Windows 10 passwordless FIDO2 sign-in
In addition to my previous tutorial (FIDO2 passwordless authentication in Azure AD) I will explain how to enable FIDO2 passwordless sign-in on Windows 10 version 1903 as well. What you'll need: Enabled FIDO2 authentication in your Azure AD tenant, preferably by...