Easily hiding the ability to use passwords for signing into Windows
This week is basically a follow-up on a few blog posts of about two years ago. Those posts where focused on requiring the use of Windows Hello for Business and on removing the ability to use a password for signing into Windows. Both acceptable starts in the passwordless journey and acceptable methods for requiring the strength of Windows Hello for Business as a sign-in method. Also, however, both methods are not that easy to configure and come with some side-effects. Most problematic side-effect being that it also impacts the sign-in capabilities to other apps and services that are relying on the same credential providers. To address that and to further simplify the passwordless journey on Windows devices, Microsoft introduced a new configuration option. That configuration …