Conditional Access

Default device compliance status

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This week I’m going to look at the recent introduction of the feature to configure the default compliance state for devices when no compliance policies are targeted. This enables additional security for all devices, as it enables administrators to mark devices as non compliant when no compliance policies are targeted to the device. In this post I’ll start with a short introduction about this security feature, followed by a walk through the configuration. I’ll end this post by looking at the end-user experience. Introduction As should be known by now, compliance policies are basically rules, such as requiring a device PIN, or requiring encryption. These device compliance policies define rules and settings that a device must follow to be considered compliant. The recently introduced security …

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Conditional access and Windows 7 domain joined devices

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This week is all about conditional access in combination with Windows 7 domain joined devices. I know, simple solution, migrate as fast as possible to Windows 10. Having said that, it’s not always possible to simply migrate those devices to Windows 10 and in the mean time those devices do need access to Office 365. That’s why I thought it would be good to write something about those Windows 7 domain joined devices in combination with conditional access. As Windows 7 should not be a reason to not implement conditional access. In this post I’ll provide the details about the additional configurations that need to be in place, to allow Windows 7 domain joined devices access to Office 365. So, not directly about conditional access, …

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Testing conditional access policies couldn’t be easier!

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This week is all about providing an overview of the best and easiest option for doing some initial testing of conditional access policies. The conditional access What If tool. The What If tool will help with easily  understanding what to expect from the configured conditional access policies. It provides an overview of how the different conditional access policies will impact the user(s) under various sign-in conditions. In this post I’ll provide an overview of the What If tool, followed by the available evaluation settings and the evaluation results. Important: At this moment the What If tool is still in public preview. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction about the What If tool. The What If tool allows administrators to understand the impact of the …

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Intune and Zimperium – Part 2: Conditional access and mobile threat defense level

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This week the second part about the integration between Microsoft Intune and Zimperium. A quick reminder, Zimperium is one of the available third-party Mobile Threat Defense connectors for Microsoft Intune. The first part, which is available here, was mainly about integrating Zimperium with Microsoft Intune. Including an overview of the total solution. In this second part, I’ll be providing a short introduction about the mobile threat defense levels and I’ll show how to configure conditional access in combination with these threat levels. Including how the different configurations are related. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Introduction Like last week, I’ll start with short introduction. Last week this introduction was about providing an overview about the integrated solution. This week is all about looking …

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Intune and Zimperium – Part 1: Configure the integration

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This week and next week I’ll be looking at integrating Microsoft Intune with Zimperium. Zimperium is one the available third-party Mobile Threat Defense connectors for Microsoft Intune. This enables organizations to add an additional layer of protection to their corporate resources. More specifically, prevent access from compromised mobile devices. In the first part of this week I’ll be providing a short introduction about the integration and I’ll show how to configure the integration. I’ll end this post with the configuration results. Introduction Let’s start with a little introduction. Organizations can control mobile device access to corporate resources by using conditional access based on a risk assessment conducted by Zimperium. For this, Zimperium must be integrated with Microsoft Intune. The risk is assessed based on telemetry …

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Conditional access and terms of use

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This week more about conditional access. More specifically, the ability to require end-users to consent to a terms of use, which is currently still in preview and was also highlighted during a couple of sessions on Microsoft Ignite. In this post, I’ll provide more information about the terms of use requirement and I’ll show how to configure that requirement. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Introduction It’s now possible to require an end-user in a tenant to consent to a terms of use before being granted access to a resource. Something like this was already possible for Microsoft Intune hybrid enrollment and Microsoft Intune standalone enrollment. However, that is Microsoft Intune only. This new requirement can be applied to any configurable Cloud app …

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Conditional access and approved client apps

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This week back in conditional access. More specifically, the recently introduced requirement, in the grant control, to Require approved client apps, which is currently still in preview. That requirement feels a bit like MAM CA, but more about that later in this post. In this post, I’ll provide more information about the Require approved client apps requirements and I’ll show how to configure that requirement. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience. Introduction When configuring a conditional access policy, it’s now possible to configure the requirement to grant access only if a connection attempt was made by an approved client app. That’s done by using the Require approved client apps requirement. This requirement could be described as something similar as MAM CA, but with …

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More differentiation options for device health attestation

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This week a short blog post, as it’s written during my vacation, about the new differentiation options in device health attestation for compliance policies. This post is basically an addition to my post about conditional access and health attestation. Back then, a compliance policy could only check for the overall health status reported by the Health Attestation Service. That is changed now. Now it’s possible to differentiate between the different data points of the Health Attestation Service. In this post I’ll briefly go through these new configuration options for Microsoft Intune hybrid and Microsoft Intune standalone. Configuration Now let’s have a look at the new configuration options for the differentiation between the different data points of the Health Attestation Service. Below are the configuration guidelines …

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Conditional access and apps that cannot be installed on the device

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This week a relatively short blog post related to conditional access. More specifically, about the ability to create a compliance policy with an apps that cannot be installed list. Before starting, let’s start with the minor detail that this is a Microsoft Intune hybrid only configuration at this moment. Introduced in Configuration Manager 1702. I’ll start this post with a short introduction, followed by the required configurations. Including how to find the required information. I’ll end this post with the end-user experience on an iOS and Android device. Introduction Let’s start with a short introduction about the apps that cannot be installed list. The apps that cannot be installed list is an additional rule that can be configured as part of a compliance policy. When …

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Conditional access and named locations

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This week another blog post about a recently introduced feature that can be used in commination with conditional access, named named locations. Within conditional access policies, named locations can be used like trusted IPs. The complication with trusted IPs was that it’s actually a feature configuration of multi-factor authentication. That did not really make a lot of sense. In this post I’ll look at the configuration of named locations and how those configurations can be used within a conditional access policy. A very good scenario for named locations in a conditional access policy is using Office 365 in a terminal services environment. It enables organizations to make an exclusions for a specific named location. In this post I’ll use an example that will blocks access …

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