Conditional Access

Require multi-factor authentication for enrollment

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This week’s blog post will continue about conditional access. However, this time I’m going to look at a specific scenario in which conditional access is the key to making it easy to solve. This week I’m going to show three options, well actually only two, for requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) during the enrollment of a device. First I’m going through the different configuration options and after that I’ll show the end-user experience per configuration option. Configuration options Now let’s start by having a look at the different configuration options. When I’m looking at the different configuration options, I want to look a little bit further than just the Microsoft Intune enrollment. I also want to include the Azure AD join, as it’s a common additional …

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Conditional access is getting better and better and better

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Yeah, I know, I’ve been using similar blog post titles recently. And yes, it might sound cheesy. However, looking specifically at conditional access, it’s easy to say that the current evolution, in the Azure portal, is better than it is in the Azure classic portal, which is better than it is in the Intune Silverlight portal. Based on that, maybe  “The evolution of conditional access” would have been a nice title also. In this post I will go through a little bit of history of conditional access, followed by going through the enhanced capabilities of conditional access in the Azure portal. Little bit of history Let’s start by looking at a little bit of history of conditional access. No, I won’t put all the evolutions …

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Conditional access for managed apps

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After a great MVP Summit and a session at a great Experts Live, it’s finally time for a new blog post. This blog post will be about conditional access for managed apps (MAM CA). About a month ago, I did a first post about this feature when it was still in preview. The good news is that the first part of this feature is now production ready for all tenants. In this post I’ll go through an introduction of MAM CA, the flow of MAM CA, the prerequisites of MAM CA, the configuration of MAM CA and the end-user experience of MAM CA. Introduction By now, I think, everybody should be familiar with the mobile app management without enrollment (MAM-WE, previously also referred to as …

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Blocking non-modern authentication is getting easier and easier

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This week a short post about blocking non-modern authentication protocols. I’ve already provided many examples throughout the blog post I’ve posted regarding conditional access, but the release of Windows Server 2016 triggered me again. The main reason for that are the the additions to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in Windows Server 2016. The main addition to ADFS, for this cause, is the addition of Access Control Policies.  During this blog post I want to slightly touch that subject, as it’s getting a pretty easy and common addition to the default conditional access policies of Microsoft Intune and Azure AD. The funny thing is that I’m not even speaking about the ability to block legacy authentication protocols directly on SharePoint Online, which is of course …

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Conditional access for managed apps (preview)

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This blog post is about an Azure preview feature. A preview may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions. Previews are subject to reduced or different service terms. In other words, previews are for early testing and should not be considered as fully production ready. During the session Secure access to Office 365, SaaS, and on-premises apps and files with Azure AD and Intune, at Microsoft Ignite, a nice new feature for mobile app management without enrollment (MDM-less MAM) was shown. That new feature is conditional access for managed apps. During that session they showed the URL to that new feature. What makes it even better, that specific URL already works with existing tenants. It simply brings the administrator to a …

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Conditional access for published ConfigMgr reports

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This week another post about the world of conditional access in Azure AD. Last week I started with looking at conditional access for Yammer. This week I’ll add-on to that idea by publishing a custom application, in this case my ConfigMgr reports, and apply conditional access to that configuration. To make it even better, it even allows a single sign-on configuration. In other words, I can use pre-authentication on Azure AD and use that token for the single sign-on experience of the end-user in the published application. Really nice! Prerequisites Before starting with the configuration, it’s important to know that his post does require two important prerequisites to be in place, which are not part of this post. Azure AD Application Proxy: This component is …

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Conditional access for Yammer

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This week I’ll open a new world of conditional access. The world of conditional access in Azure AD. I’ll open that world of conditional access by looking at conditional access for Yammer. Conditional access for Yammer cannot be configured through the Microsoft Intune administration console. However, that doesn’t mean that conditional access for Yammer doesn’t exist. The configuration of conditional access for Yammer is available through the Azure Management portal. In this post I’ll go into more detail about conditional access via Azure AD, the required configurations and the end-users experience. Introduction About a month ago Microsoft released conditional access policies as a preview feature in Azure AD for iOS, Android and Windows (Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, build 1607). These policies can …

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Conditional access for Exchange Online to the max

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This week I want to show another look at conditional for Exchange Online. I want to do that by providing a scenario. That scenario will cover more than just conditional access. Mainly because conditional access simply blocks access to non-compliant devices, but what if I want to take it one step further? What if I also want to prevent potential data leakage? In that case I can’t just look at conditional access. In that case I also need to add mobile app management to the playing field. This post will address those subjects for Exchange Online. Scenario Now lets start with the scenario that I want to cover. Even though I know that I will use Microsoft Intune and related technologies to do the configuration, …

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Conditional access for browsers

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This week I’ll provide an overview about the latest addition to conditional access, which is conditional access for browsers. It’s a feature that many have been waiting for and a feature that is indeed a pretty welcome addition to conditional access. This post will provide the basics about conditional for browses, the configuration of conditional access for browsers and the end-user experience with conditional access for browsers. It will also be the introduction for something much better next week. Introduction Conditional access allows IT organizations to manage access to corporate email, files and other resources based on customizable conditions that ensure security and compliance. The addition of conditional access for browsers addresses the backdoor that still existed for end-users connecting to the Outlook Web App …

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Conditional access for Skype for Business Online

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This week another post about conditional access. This time about conditional access for Skype for Business Online. With this post I want to create more awareness for the availability of this feature and I want to show the currently available configuration options. During this post I’ll go into more detail about the prerequisites, the configuration and the end-users experience. The configurations that I’ll provide, are provided for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. Prerequisites Before starting with the configuration steps for conditional access for Skype for Business Online, there are a few technical prerequisites that should be in place, or should be known. Modern authentication must be enabled for Skype for Business Online. At this moment modern authentication must be enabled by enrolling into …

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