Month: June 2025

Blocking other browsers with policies for Microsoft Edge (be careful)

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This week is all about creating awareness. Creating awareness for the configuration options that are available for Microsoft Edge via the Microsoft 365 admin center, also known as the Microsoft Edge management service. The Microsoft Edge management service is an alternative method, besides Microsoft Intune, for configuring the Microsoft Edge browser via the Cloud. The configurations are stored in the Cloud and the settings can be applied through a group assignment. The user must be signed into the browser to receive those settings, and the browser must be restarted to make new settings applicable. So, pretty similar to the capabilities within Microsoft Intune. Besides that, the Microsoft Edge management service also provides access to additional settings, such as organization branding, AI, and specific security settings. …

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Experiencing the app relationship viewer

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This week is a relatively short blog post, focused on providing awareness for the recently introduced app relationship viewer. The app relationship viewer can be used to see which apps are directly connected to the selected app. Those connected apps are also known as child apps. Child apps can be either dependent apps or superseded apps. A dependent app relationship is an app that is configured as a dependency for the installation of the selected app, and a superseded app relationship is an app that is configured to be superseded by the installation of the selected app. Those relationships are shown within the app relationship viewer. But not just for the selected app, but also for the child apps. This blog post provides a brief …

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Explicitly denying elevation of specified files using Endpoint Privilege Management

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This week is all about a new feature that was recently introduced in Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), and that feature is the ability to explicitly deny elevation. Explicitly denying the elevation blocks the specified file from running in elevated context. That enables organizations to work the other way around. Instead of configuring which file elevations are allowed, this enables organizations to allow every elevation with the exception of the elevations of those specifically specified files. Of course, the recommendation is to tightly control which files are allowed to elevate. That is, however, not always the situation that every organization is in. Often simply getting insights into what users are installing is already a huge step forward. Especially in combination with no local administrator privileges. As …

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Getting started with the Microsoft Defender Browser Protection extension for Google Chrome

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This week is sort of a follow-up on the last couple of weeks. The last couple of weeks the focus was on getting started with the different Microsoft Purview extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, while this week the focus is on getting started with the Microsoft Defender Browser Protection extension for Google Chrome. The Microsoft Defender Browser Protection extension brings protection against online threats, like phishing and malicious websites, functionality known from SmartScreen in Microsoft Edge, to the Google Chrome browser. With that functionality it protects users against threats such as clicking on links in phishing emails and websites that are designed to trick users into downloading and installing malicious software. Of course Google Chrome also provides similar built-in functionality, but that will not …

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Getting started with the Microsoft Purview extension for Mozilla Firefox

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This week is sort of a follow-up on last week. Last week the focus was on getting started with the Microsoft Purview extension for Google Chrome, while this week the focus is on getting started with the Microsoft Purview extension for Mozilla Firefox. The story around the extension is pretty similar, as the Microsoft Purview extension for Mozilla Firefox extends the Endpoint data loss prevention (Endpoint DLP) capabilities to sensitive items in the Mozilla Firefox browser. And after the installation of that extension, on Windows devices, organizations get the ability to also monitor attempts to access or upload sensitive items to a Cloud service when using the Mozilla Firefox browser, and to actually enforce protective actions via data loss prevention policies. This post will provide a …

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