Conditional access, Windows 10 and Microsoft Intune: What are the compliance options?

Recently Microsoft released a couple of blog posts about The Path to Modernizing Windows Management and about Clear & Simple Guidance: When ConfigMgr and Intune should be used with Windows 10, which should be really helpful with deciding how to managing the Windows 10 devices within an organization. I would really recommend everybody to read those posts. This blog post will not be directly related, but will continue on a more detailed level about the options for conditional access and Windows 10 devices. In this blog post I will provide nice tables of the different compliance rules, for Windows 10 devices, that are currently available for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. In those tables I’ll show the different management scenarios and the currently …

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Conditional access and health attestation

This week another blog post about conditional access. And another blog post that is triggered by a feature that is introduced in ConfigMgr 1602. However, this time it’s about a feature that already did exist in Microsoft Intune standalone. I’m talking about the new conditional access rule that uses the Health Attestation Service. This new rule creates the ability to ensure that Windows 10 devices have trustworthy BIOS, TPM, and boot software configurations enabled. In this blog post I’ll show the detailed configuration steps for Microsoft Intune hybrid and I’ll briefly note the most important configurations for Microsoft Intune standalone. Introduction Device health attestation is an additional level of restricting access to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for Windows 10 devices. Currently only available for …

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Conditional access for PCs managed by ConfigMgr

This blog post is about a pre-release feature, which means that it’s included in the product for early testing in a production environment, but should not be considered production ready. This week a blog post about the Conditional access for managed PCs feature that is introduced in ConfigMgr 1602. This feature is introduced as a pre-release feature. The requirements for using Conditional access for managed PCs are similar to the requirements of the blog series that I did a few months ago about Conditional access for PCs. Make sure that those requirements are in-place before starting with the configurations described in this post. Introduction Conditional access for managed PCs is basically an additional level of restricting access to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Before the …

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When are devices blocked after enabling conditional access?

This week a blog post with only one purpose, and that purpose is, providing an overview. Providing an overview about when devices will be blocked after enabling conditional access. That information is available in the TechNet documentation (see the More information section of this post), but it might be a bit difficult to find. As the question pops up in the TechNet forums at a regular basis, I got the suggestion that it would be a good idea to provide a quick, but clear, overview. This post will provide nice tables, for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid, with the time it will take before a device will be blocked from Exchange. That information will be provided for two different setups and three different …

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Enable modern authentication for Exchange Online

This blog post is about enabling modern authentication on Exchange Online. Modern authentication is a requirement for conditional access for PCs. For SharePoint Online that’s enabled by default and for Exchange Online that’s disabled by default. However, that configuration is now available via PowerShell. This post is meant to show how easy this can be achieved now. Before this had to be done by enrolling in to the preview program. Now it’s publically available. Why I’m posting about Exchange Online? Well, actually that’s quite simple, I can’t get around it. If I want to configure conditional access in Microsoft Intune standalone or hybrid, I often need to use Exchange Online. In this post I’ll go through five simple steps to connect, verify and configure modern …

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My Experts Live session and content

November has been a crazy month for me so far. The frequent visitors of my blog might have noticed a complete silence the last couple of weeks. Well, it’s time to break that silence again! This month started with my first MVP Summit and I have to say that it would be awesome to be there again next year! After that I had the great opportunity to present on Experts Live 2015. I had a session about conditional access and mobile application management. This post will contain the slide deck of that session and the movies of the demos. The sessions were not recorded, but as I always create movies of my demos, as a backup scenario, I thought lets post those movies instead. Slide …

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The conditional access flow of the other Office apps

This week something similar to last week, this week I’ll be looking at the conditional access flow of the other Office apps. By that I basically mean every Microsoft app, connecting to Office 365, using modern authentication, except for the Outlook app for iOS and Android. Like last week I’ll be looking at a high-level from a component perspective. It will be like a what-happens-when-and-where flow. The biggest difference with the Outlook app for iOS and Android is that the other Office apps don’t use the Outlook Cloud Service and instead go directly, with their access token, to Office 365. Before I’ll start with the what-happens-when-and-where flow, I think it’s important to again first provide a bit of information about Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based …

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The conditional access flow of the Outlook app for iOS and Android

This week something completely different, this week I’ll be looking at the conditional access flow of the Outlook app for iOS and Android. By that I don’t mean that I’ll be looking at the high-level decision flow, which is available on TechNet, but more from a component perspective. It will be more of a what-happens-when-and-where flow. Before I’ll start with the what-happens-when-and-where flow, I think it’s important to first provide a bit of information about Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)-based authentication, the Open Authentication (OAuth) protocol and the Outlook Cloud Service in combination with Office 365. These components make the what-happens-when-and-where flow. ADAL-based authentication The Outlook app for iOS and Android uses ADAL-based authentication to access Office 365. ADAL-based authentication enables the Outlook app for iOS …

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Conditional Access for PCs – Part III: Exchange Online

Keep in mind that by default modern authentication is disabled on Exchange Online. To enable this please following this guidance. Two weeks ago I started with this series of blog posts about conditional access for PCs and I started with the requirements for conditional access for PCs. Last week I built onto those requirements by adding the SharePoint Online Policy, and the Compliance Policy, and I finished with showing the end-user experience. This week, in the third part of this blog series, I’ll also build onto those requirements by adding the Exchange Online Policy and again the Compliance Policy. After those configurations are in place, I’ll also finish, this third part of this blog series, with the end-user experience. Note: This post shows a few …

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Conditional Access for PCs – Part II: SharePoint Online

Last week I started with this series of blog posts about conditional access for PCs. I started with the requirements for conditional access for PCs. This week, in the second part of this blog series, I’ll build onto those requirements by adding the SharePoint Online Policy and the Compliance Policy. After those configurations are in place, I’ll finish, this second part of this blog series, with the end-user experience. Note: This post shows a few identical configurations as I also mention in the third part of this blog series. This allows one to configure the SharePoint Online Policy without going through the configuration of the Exchange Online Policy. Configuration The configuration of conditional access for PCs contains two actions. The first action is to configure …

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