Conditional Access

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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Quick tip: View device in Azure Active Directory

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This week a quick and short blog post about the feature, in Configuration Manager, to view a device in Azure AD. This is small new feature that was introduced in Configuration Manager 1702 and is mainly used for getting additional information about the compliance state of domain joined devices. Devices managed by a Configuration Manager client. In this post I’ll show the steps to use that feature and I’ll show the provided information. View device in Azure AD The feature to view a device in Azure AD, is only available when looking at non-compliant or compliant devices.  This can be achieved by going through the steps below. 1 Open the Configuration Manager administration console and navigate to Monitoring > Overview > Compliance Settings > Compliance …

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Conditional access and Google Chrome on Windows 10

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This week a short blog post to create some awareness about conditional access for Google Chrome on Windows 10. Starting with Windows 10, version 1703, it’s now possible to use Google Chrome in combination with conditional access. It will no longer simply being blocked. This can be achieved by installing and enabling the Windows 10 Accounts extension in Google Chrome. The screenshot below contains the name and URL of the extension. Introduction The Windows 10 Accounts extension for Google Chrome provides a single sign-on experience, to supported websites, to end-users that have a Microsoft supported identity on Windows 10,. Also, the Windows 10 Accounts extension for Google Chrome is required when the organization has implemented conditional access policies, to get the expected end-user experience. Currently, …

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Conditional access and app enforced restrictions

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This blog post is about a recently introduced feature in conditional access, named Session controls. More specific, the Session control of app enforced restrictions. Session controls enable a limiting experience within a cloud app. The great thing about Session controls is is that those controls are enforced by the cloud apps and that those controls rely on additional information provided by Azure AD to the cloud app, about the session. In other words, these controls can be used to require Azure AD to pass the device information to the cloud app. This enables the cloud app to know if the user is coming from a (non-)compliant device or (non-)domain joined device. Currently Session controls are only supported with SharePoint Online as the cloud app. In …

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Require multi-factor authentication for enrollment

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This week’s blog post will continue about conditional access. However, this time I’m going to look at a specific scenario in which conditional access is the key to making it easy to solve. This week I’m going to show three options, well actually only two, for requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) during the enrollment of a device. First I’m going through the different configuration options and after that I’ll show the end-user experience per configuration option. Configuration options Now let’s start by having a look at the different configuration options. When I’m looking at the different configuration options, I want to look a little bit further than just the Microsoft Intune enrollment. I also want to include the Azure AD join, as it’s a common additional …

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Conditional access is getting better and better and better

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Yeah, I know, I’ve been using similar blog post titles recently. And yes, it might sound cheesy. However, looking specifically at conditional access, it’s easy to say that the current evolution, in the Azure portal, is better than it is in the Azure classic portal, which is better than it is in the Intune Silverlight portal. Based on that, maybe  “The evolution of conditional access” would have been a nice title also. In this post I will go through a little bit of history of conditional access, followed by going through the enhanced capabilities of conditional access in the Azure portal. Little bit of history Let’s start by looking at a little bit of history of conditional access. No, I won’t put all the evolutions …

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Conditional access for managed apps

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After a great MVP Summit and a session at a great Experts Live, it’s finally time for a new blog post. This blog post will be about conditional access for managed apps (MAM CA). About a month ago, I did a first post about this feature when it was still in preview. The good news is that the first part of this feature is now production ready for all tenants. In this post I’ll go through an introduction of MAM CA, the flow of MAM CA, the prerequisites of MAM CA, the configuration of MAM CA and the end-user experience of MAM CA. Introduction By now, I think, everybody should be familiar with the mobile app management without enrollment (MAM-WE, previously also referred to as …

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Blocking non-modern authentication is getting easier and easier

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This week a short post about blocking non-modern authentication protocols. I’ve already provided many examples throughout the blog post I’ve posted regarding conditional access, but the release of Windows Server 2016 triggered me again. The main reason for that are the the additions to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in Windows Server 2016. The main addition to ADFS, for this cause, is the addition of Access Control Policies.  During this blog post I want to slightly touch that subject, as it’s getting a pretty easy and common addition to the default conditional access policies of Microsoft Intune and Azure AD. The funny thing is that I’m not even speaking about the ability to block legacy authentication protocols directly on SharePoint Online, which is of course …

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