Conditional Access

Conditional access for managed apps (preview)

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This blog post is about an Azure preview feature. A preview may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions. Previews are subject to reduced or different service terms. In other words, previews are for early testing and should not be considered as fully production ready. During the session Secure access to Office 365, SaaS, and on-premises apps and files with Azure AD and Intune, at Microsoft Ignite, a nice new feature for mobile app management without enrollment (MDM-less MAM) was shown. That new feature is conditional access for managed apps. During that session they showed the URL to that new feature. What makes it even better, that specific URL already works with existing tenants. It simply brings the administrator to a …

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Conditional access for published ConfigMgr reports

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This week another post about the world of conditional access in Azure AD. Last week I started with looking at conditional access for Yammer. This week I’ll add-on to that idea by publishing a custom application, in this case my ConfigMgr reports, and apply conditional access to that configuration. To make it even better, it even allows a single sign-on configuration. In other words, I can use pre-authentication on Azure AD and use that token for the single sign-on experience of the end-user in the published application. Really nice! Prerequisites Before starting with the configuration, it’s important to know that his post does require two important prerequisites to be in place, which are not part of this post. Azure AD Application Proxy: This component is …

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Conditional access for Yammer

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This week I’ll open a new world of conditional access. The world of conditional access in Azure AD. I’ll open that world of conditional access by looking at conditional access for Yammer. Conditional access for Yammer cannot be configured through the Microsoft Intune administration console. However, that doesn’t mean that conditional access for Yammer doesn’t exist. The configuration of conditional access for Yammer is available through the Azure Management portal. In this post I’ll go into more detail about conditional access via Azure AD, the required configurations and the end-users experience. Introduction About a month ago Microsoft released conditional access policies as a preview feature in Azure AD for iOS, Android and Windows (Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, build 1607). These policies can …

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Conditional access for Exchange Online to the max

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This week I want to show another look at conditional for Exchange Online. I want to do that by providing a scenario. That scenario will cover more than just conditional access. Mainly because conditional access simply blocks access to non-compliant devices, but what if I want to take it one step further? What if I also want to prevent potential data leakage? In that case I can’t just look at conditional access. In that case I also need to add mobile app management to the playing field. This post will address those subjects for Exchange Online. Scenario Now lets start with the scenario that I want to cover. Even though I know that I will use Microsoft Intune and related technologies to do the configuration, …

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Conditional access for browsers

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This week I’ll provide an overview about the latest addition to conditional access, which is conditional access for browsers. It’s a feature that many have been waiting for and a feature that is indeed a pretty welcome addition to conditional access. This post will provide the basics about conditional for browses, the configuration of conditional access for browsers and the end-user experience with conditional access for browsers. It will also be the introduction for something much better next week. Introduction Conditional access allows IT organizations to manage access to corporate email, files and other resources based on customizable conditions that ensure security and compliance. The addition of conditional access for browsers addresses the backdoor that still existed for end-users connecting to the Outlook Web App …

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Conditional access for Skype for Business Online

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This week another post about conditional access. This time about conditional access for Skype for Business Online. With this post I want to create more awareness for the availability of this feature and I want to show the currently available configuration options. During this post I’ll go into more detail about the prerequisites, the configuration and the end-users experience. The configurations that I’ll provide, are provided for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. Prerequisites Before starting with the configuration steps for conditional access for Skype for Business Online, there are a few technical prerequisites that should be in place, or should be known. Modern authentication must be enabled for Skype for Business Online. At this moment modern authentication must be enabled by enrolling into …

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Prevent specific devices from accessing Microsoft Intune

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This week again something completely different. This week I’m going into the world of AD FS. More specifically, I’m going to use AD FS to prevent specific devices from accessing Microsoft Intune (and Office 365). I’ve received that question a few times lately, of which a couple of times on the Microsoft Intune forums, and I thought it would be worth a small blog post. Using AD FS to deny specific claims is not the prettiest method to prevent users and/or devices from accessing Microsoft Intune (or Office 365). However, it can be very efficient for specific use cases. This blog post will provide an easy method to find the required information to construct the claim rules and a step-by-step direction for configuring the relying …

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Conditional access, Windows 10 and Microsoft Intune: What are the compliance options?

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Recently Microsoft released a couple of blog posts about The Path to Modernizing Windows Management and about Clear & Simple Guidance: When ConfigMgr and Intune should be used with Windows 10, which should be really helpful with deciding how to managing the Windows 10 devices within an organization. I would really recommend everybody to read those posts. This blog post will not be directly related, but will continue on a more detailed level about the options for conditional access and Windows 10 devices. In this blog post I will provide nice tables of the different compliance rules, for Windows 10 devices, that are currently available for Microsoft Intune standalone and Microsoft Intune hybrid. In those tables I’ll show the different management scenarios and the currently …

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Conditional access and health attestation

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This week another blog post about conditional access. And another blog post that is triggered by a feature that is introduced in ConfigMgr 1602. However, this time it’s about a feature that already did exist in Microsoft Intune standalone. I’m talking about the new conditional access rule that uses the Health Attestation Service. This new rule creates the ability to ensure that Windows 10 devices have trustworthy BIOS, TPM, and boot software configurations enabled. In this blog post I’ll show the detailed configuration steps for Microsoft Intune hybrid and I’ll briefly note the most important configurations for Microsoft Intune standalone. Introduction Device health attestation is an additional level of restricting access to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for Windows 10 devices. Currently only available for …

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Conditional access for PCs managed by ConfigMgr

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This blog post is about a pre-release feature, which means that it’s included in the product for early testing in a production environment, but should not be considered production ready. This week a blog post about the Conditional access for managed PCs feature that is introduced in ConfigMgr 1602. This feature is introduced as a pre-release feature. The requirements for using Conditional access for managed PCs are similar to the requirements of the blog series that I did a few months ago about Conditional access for PCs. Make sure that those requirements are in-place before starting with the configurations described in this post. Introduction Conditional access for managed PCs is basically an additional level of restricting access to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. Before the …

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