Microsoft Entra Internet Access

Blocking the Microsoft Store Web Installer using Entra Internet Access

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This week is all about addressing a really specific scenario and that scenario is related to the Microsoft Store. Many organizations are preventing access to the Microsoft Store app by using the policy setting Turn off the Store application. That policy setting, however, does literally what the name implies, it turns off the Store application. That does not prevent users from navigating to apps.microsoft.com, downloading an app and installing it directly. In the early days that download option did not exist, meaning that this scenario did not exist. That all changed with the Microsoft Store Web Installer. The Microsoft Store Web Installer is a standalone installer for Store apps that helps with downloading and installing apps from apps.microsoft.com. It basically creates a stub .exe-based installer …

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Getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Android

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This week is all about getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Android. That makes this post a follow-up on this post about getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Windows of a few months ago. To start with a similar short introduction, Global Secure Access is the Security Service Edge (SSE) solution of Microsoft. Gartner defines SSE as a solution that secures access to the web, cloud services and private applications, regardless of the location of the user or the device they are using or where that application is hosted. Within Global Secure Access, Microsoft introduced Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access to provide that functionality. Of those products, Entra Internet Access is focused on secured access to Microsoft …

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Getting started with the Global Secure Access client for Windows

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This first week is all about the Global Secure Access client for Windows. Global Secure Access is the Security Service Edge (SSE) solution of Microsoft. Gartner defines SSE as a solution that secures access to the web, cloud services and private applications regardless of the location of the user or the device they are using or where that application is hosted. Within Global Secure Access, Microsoft introduced the (Microsoft Entra) Internet Access and (Microsoft Entra) Private Access products to provide that functionality. Of these products Internet Access is focused on secured access to Microsoft 365, SaaS, and public apps, while Private Access is focused on secured access to private or internal resources. The Global Secure Access client can be used to connect to the Global …

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