Getting new users quickly up-and-running with Temporary Access Pass

This week is a little follow-up on a post of a couple of months ago and about connecting pieces of the puzzle. That post was around Temporary Access Pass (TAP). Even though that post was focused on Windows devices, it did provide some hints for using TAP on mobile devices (Android, iOS) also. An often seen and heard challenge is related to getting new user up-and-running. Especially when requiring Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for device enrollment, or when trying to work completely passwordless. Those scenarios introduce chicken-and-egg situations as a device must be registered for usage with MFA and the registration requires MFA, or when trying to work passwordless and an authentication method must be registered to be able to work passwordless. So, to get a …

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How to configure multi-factor authentication in Microsoft Intune – Part 2: The single sign-on method

Last week I started this series with a blog post on How to configure multi-factor authentication in Microsoft Intune – Part 1: The easiest method, this week I’m going to take it up one level and also include single sign-on in the configuration. I will describe the multi-factor authentication configuration, for Microsoft Intune, when using single sign-on. The nice thing is that the multi-factor authentication page, in Microsoft Intune, already describes the configuration. In this post I will walk through that configuration and also show the results of that configuration, as that was a little bit surprising to me. Scenario Like last week it’s important to mention a couple of lines about the scenario before I’ll start with this configuration for multi-factor authentication. This specific …

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How to configure multi-factor authentication in Microsoft Intune – Part 1: The easiest method

By now I think it’s save to assume that everybody knows about the new capabilities of Microsoft Intune that where added last week. Also, next to those adjustments there were the “long” hoped for improvements to the Windows Phone 8.1 enrollment process. These new capabilities and improvements triggered me to do a new small blog series and this time about multi-factor authentication. In this blog series I will describe a few different multi-factor authentication configurations for, initially, Microsoft Intune standalone. This first part will be the easiest configuration, without anything fancy like single sign-on. Scenario Before I’ll start with this configuration for multi-factor authentication it’s important to mention a couple of lines about the scenario. This specific multi-factor authentication configuration is only possible when the …

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