Identity and Access

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…

Intune 1703: Unable to create Compliance Policy

By Ronni Pedersen on March 18, 2017 Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Information Protection, Intune

This week, I created 2 new Intune tenants. One for a new customer and one for a new lab that I was preparing for our SCUG.DK User Group Meeting next week.Just to get things started, I created a simple compliance policy that check if the device is jailbroken and got the following error (in both tenants):An error occurredAn error occurred whilst saving. Request ID: 6e6d9c36-a213-40be-941a-190aa6ab2defNot much to work with, but I finally figured it out…If you configure the “Jailbroken devices” settings, and leave the “Mobile Thread Level” to the default (Not Configured) it will fail when you try to save…

Now Available: Update 1602 for System Center Configuration Manager

By Ronni Pedersen on March 11, 2016 Configuration Manager, Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Information Protection, Intune

Today, Microsoft has released the first update for the current branch of System Center Configuration Manager! The latest version of Configuration Manager is now 1602. Lots of cool new features and improvements: Client Online Status Support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Windows 10 Device Health Attestation Reporting Office 365 Update Management New Antimalware Policy Settings Conditional Access for PCs Managed by Configuration Manager Windows 10 Conditional Access Enhancements Microsoft Edge Configuration Settings Windows 10 Team Support Apple Volume Purchase Program (VPP) Support iOS App Configuration iOS Activation Lock Management Kiosk Mode for Samsung KNOX Devices User Acceptance of Terms…

Join me at the What’s new in Windows 10 IT Innovation Series Event

By Ronni Pedersen on December 18, 2015 Community, Enterprise Mobility, Identity and Access, Information Protection, Intune, Windows and Devices

What’s new in Windows 10 Enterprise: Increasing Security, Predictability, and Compatibility Experience the most innovative and reliable Windows yet! Windows 10 brings increased stability and predictability to your organization, while minimizing risk. Attend this free one-day training event to explore new servicing, security, and management features that enable corporate data access across devices and platforms while allowing you to maintain control over those devices. Join Microsoft MVP Ronni Pedersen and learn to: Help ensure application compatibility with new and legacy LOB apps with Microsoft Edge and IE 11. Implement security and identity capabilities through Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Hello/Passport, Device…

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