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Missing “UserType” attribute in Azure AD

By Ronni Pedersen on October 30, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Intune, PowerShell

Over the years, I’ve created multiple labs, so that I can test different scenarios. One of my first “cloud only” Azure AD labs was created back in 2012. Two weeks ago, I wanted to use this lab to test a new Conditional Access scenario that one of my customers needed.Long time ago, I also created an “All Users” group, that was based on direct membership, so I thought it was a good idea to replace that group with a new and “shiny” dynamic group based on the “UserType” attribute.So, I created the following group, and started to redeploy all my…

Speaking at the Lowlands Unite Brussels event

By Ronni Pedersen on September 21, 2017 Community, Enterprise Mobility, Events, Identity and Access, Intune

Right now, I’m sitting in a Lufthansa Airbus A380 somewhere over the Atlantic ocean. Next week, I’ll be attending the Microsoft Ignite 2017 event in Orlando, to get some insights to the latest updates and strategies from Microsoft. So why not spend the time writing this blog post! Next month I’ve been invited to present at the Lowlands Unite event in Belgium. The Lowlands Unite events are joined user group events between the Belgium and the Dutch System Center User groups, and earlier this year I was invited to the Dutch edition in Amsterdam. The event in Amsterdam was a…

Azure Saturday 2017 Slide Deck

By Ronni Pedersen on September 1, 2017 Community, Enterprise Mobility, Events, Identity and Access, Intune

Today I had the honor to speak at the Azure Saturday event in Copenhagen. I’m really impressed with the quality and the list of international speakers are really impressive. Great job! My presentation was about Protecting Cloud Identities using EMS, Intune and Azure AD Premium features, and as promised during the session, here is a copy of the PowerPoint slides. Looking forward to be back next year! Azure saturday 2017 – Protecting cloud identities using emsfrom Ronni Pedersen That’s it… Enjoy! +Ronni Pedersen

Join me and the MS Product Group for “Office 365 Admin AMA”

By Ronni Pedersen on August 12, 2017 Community, Enterprise Mobility, Events, Identity and Access, Intune

On Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 the Microsoft Tech Community will host an ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the Office 365 Admin AMA space. An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit.This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the product engineering team and who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.As a Microsoft MVP in the Enterprise Mobility and Security area, I’ve been invited as a community expert to join the Office 365…

Automate Mailbox Auditing in Office 365

By Ronni Pedersen on July 29, 2017 Cloud and Data Center, Identity and Access, Information Protection, PowerShell

Introduction For most organizations, Office 365 (mailboxes) can contain both high business impact and personally identifiable information, so it’s important that we track who logs on to the mailboxes in the organization and what actions are taken. By default, mailbox auditing in Office 365 isn’t turned on, so this guide will help you to setup and verify mailbox auditing in Office 365. This guide will walk you through the following steps: Step 1: Connect to Exchange Online Step 2: Get the current state of audit logging Step 3: Enable mailbox audit logging Step 4: Set the age limit for mailbox…

Speaking: Azure Saturday 2017

By Ronni Pedersen on July 15, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Intune

I’m proud to announce that I’ve been invited to speaking about Protecting Cloud Identities using Azure MFA and EMS, at the Azure Saturday 2017 event in Copenhagen. Azure Saturday is a premium community driven event for Developers, IT-Pros and Cloud Architects. Check it out!Although it’s called Azure Saturday they could not pack all the content into one day, so the conference takes place on September 1st (Azure Friday) and September 2nd (Azure Saturday) and features both tech-talks and practical use-cases of Azure.Full Agenda : https://azuresaturday.dk/agenda/.Check out the the awesome speaker line-up: https://azuresaturday.dk/speakers/.More information and registration: https://azuresaturday.dk/.And don’t forget to follow…

Enable modern authentication for Skype for Business Online

By Ronni Pedersen on July 11, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access

As a Cloud Consultant working with products that are part of the Office 365 and the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility +Security Suite (EMS), I often get a lot of questions about multi-factor authentication (MFA), and how to get started. Most customers today has a strategy about MFA when employees are trying to access corporate company data from outside the company perimeter. But when customers are using cloud services like Office 365, OneDrive and SharePoint that boundary moves from a physical boundary to the user identity. Therefore the requirement for multi-factor authentication is something that most customers wants to implement as part…

Enable Azure Subscription without using a Credit Card

By Ronni Pedersen on June 13, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Intune

Over the last 12 months, I’ve been involved in more than 25 projects with customers that wanted to enable one or more Azure AD Premium and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) features that’s only available in the Classic Azure Portal. And every time I get the same questions about how to access and configure this feature.During this period Microsoft has already announced the GA for Azure Active Directory, but there are still a few features that you need to configure in the classic Azure Portal. When you navigate to the Azure Active Directory node in the Azure Portal, you’ll find…

Pro Tip: Use Ctrl+Alt+D from the Azure Portal to get performance information

By Ronni Pedersen on April 26, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Intune

When working in the new Microsoft Azure Portal, and the portal feels slow, it hard to identify what’s causing the problem. By using the “Ctrl+Alt+D” command from the Azure Portal, you will get all kind of great information about load times and activated services. Really cool stuff.Check it out by using Ctrl+Alt+D anywhere in the Azure Portal./Enjoy

PowerShell is King! Find misconfigured users in AD

By Ronni Pedersen on March 21, 2017 Cloud and Data Center, Identity and Access, PowerShell, Windows Server

Today I got a call from a customer that was working on a Office 365 Project. As part of the Project they wanted to change the Exchange Email Address Policies to filter on the Company Name for each user. Only problem was that some of the users had a blank or misspelled Company name…Luckily, someone invented PowerShell so we started by pulling a list of all Company Names by running this command:Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties Company | Group Company | Select Name,CountThe result was as expected… Too many company names. Misspelled Company Names and users with no company name specified…

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