October 2022 – Set-AzWebApp -name "Anything Microsoft and other stuff on the side"

Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 4

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 30/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Conditional access, Entitlement management, IAM, Identity, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Authenticator, Microsoft Graph, Security

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you are in part of your journey that you have either Hybrid or fully cloud-based identities. In the last part I covered how you can use Hybrid Identity Administrator role, Automation…

PowerShell 7.2.7 and Could not load type ‘System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng’

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 28/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Identity, Microsoft Graph, Powershell

The error is described in the title but what leads to this error? Generating the problem with Connect-AzureAD module When you have PowerShell 7.* installed and you want to install Azure AD module and connect to Azure AD, the install…

Accessing Azure SQL with different methods

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Identity, Powershell, Security, SQL

I decided to write about Azure SQL as inspired by an question from the community. The ask was “How to do I access Azure SQL with MFA enabled user, should I remove the MFA and create a normal user?” In…

Additional context in Microsoft Authenticator notifications is now generally available!

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Identity, Microsoft Authenticator, Security

Why to use? Additional context is now out of preview and you really should enable it as soon as possible, it’s really really important that your users understand where they login from! Multi-factor authentication is excellent security feature, in the…

Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 3

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure AD Cloud Sync, Conditional access, Hybrid, Identity, Security

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. This will translate to having Source of Authority (SoA) in your on-premises environment. We covered parts of user sync, what kind of solutions to use…

ChromeOS Flex and my findings for the security

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 19/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Entra, Security

What is ChromeOS Flex? It’s always nice to discover new things in this multi-cloud and multi-OS world of yours. Google bough Neverware back in 2020 and now there has been some working versions of ChromeOS Flex which is based on…

Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 15/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in AAD Connect, Active Directory, Azure, Azure AD, Defender, Hybrid, Identity, Security

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. If you still need (haven’t convinced you otherwise) federation services in on-premises, use should use Defender for Identity sensors for ADFS What it needs? ADFS…

Certificate-based authentication is generally available!

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 12/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Active Directory, Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Sentinel, Security

Microsoft announced today at Ignite 2022 that Certificate-Based Authentication is officially out of preview and ready to use! Why CBA was created? “In May of 2021, the President issued Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity calling for the Federal Government to modernize…

Tips for studying and passing Microsoft Security exams – Updated (Ignite 2022) version

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 11/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Certifications, Identity, Ignite 2022, Security

This an hyper-boosted revised version of my last guide for passing Microsoft exams so let’s get going. Ignite 2022 Ignite is starting tomorrow and guess what? You still have time to register you self! I believe most of you are…

Conditional access and authentication strength (preview)

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 09/10/2022 0 Comments

Posted in Active Directory, Azure, Certificates, Conditional access, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, Security

First I wanted to mention the link problems inside Azure Portals. For a while and for some people portal.azure.com didn’t show the Authentication strengths in their portal, this has now been fixed in normal Azure portal. Entra portal on the…

Month: October 2022