Self-Service PIN Reset

Working with web sign-in on Windows 11

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This week is a bit of a follow-up on a post of about two years ago and is mainly focussed on creating some awareness. That post was specifically about enabling web sign-in to Windows for usage with Temporary Access Pass. That web sign-in functionality provides a web-based sign-in experience on Microsoft Entra joined devices. At that time, that web-based sign-in experience was limited to Temporary Access Pass (TAP). Starting with Windows 11 version 22H2 with KB5030310 and later, that has changed. The supported scenarios and capabilities of web sign-in are now expanded. Besides TAP, it can now also be used for a passwordless sign-in experience with the Microsoft Authenticator app, a seamless Windows Hello for Business PIN reset experience, and even a federated identity with …

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Fixing self-service when restricting the local log on

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This week is a quick follow-up on the post of last week. That post was focussed on restricting the local log on to Windows devices. Part of that post was also the broken self-service password reset and self-service PIN reset functionalities. When using the most restrictive option of a whitelist, for configuring the users that are allowed to log on locally, that will break those functionalities. This week will be all about a follow-up on that behavior. When it’s required to restrict the local log on Windows devices, and users should still be able to use the different self-service functionalities, this post will provide a solid starting point. Of course, that’s not applicable to every scenario. Only scenarios in which there are actual users logging …

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