Azure Active Directory

Azure AD – New administration roles for managing domain name and authentication methods

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Good news, you don’t need to be a global administrator to manage Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) or authentication methods. A new role called Authentication Policy Admin allows you to delegate authentication methods management, covering MFA or password protection policies. NOTE the legacy MFA setting is not available for the authentication policy admin role Below is […]

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Azure AD – Emailed One Time Password will be turned on for B2B

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As you may know, Azure AD has been allowing to generate a one time password and sent it by email for external (guest) users for some time (2019 – see https://t.co/5H7QBhEa3D) This feature was in preview and is now GA. It will be turn on automatically for any tenant which did not have enabled it

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AWS/Azure AD – You use Azure AD for authentication when accessing AWS

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As many customer, you may be running resources on multiple cloud providers, like Azure and AWS. You can now use Azure AD (and the additional AAD capabilities like conditional access and/or MFA) for authentication when accessing AWS console. With this integration you will also be able to provision AWS roles to your Azure AD. The

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Azure AD – Get Password spray attack detection report when using Identity Protection

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As you know, password attacks have been there for quite some time. Well, if you are using Azure AD Identity Protection to help you secure your accounts, you now have the ability to have report on the specific password spray attack from the Risk Detection. You need to use Azure AD P2 to be able

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Azure AD – You can now easily switch to another AAD tenant

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This new capability is simplifying switching between Azure Active Directory tenant. This is quite useful if you manage more than 1 AAD tenant – like CSP or if you are using Azure B2C. To use this is new feature, logon to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and access the Azure Active

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Azure AD – You can download the list of Azure AD Devices

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It has been a long awaited capability: you can now download the list of your Azure AD devices directly from the Azure AD portal. Before this feature you were able to get the list of your Azure AD devices only using Azure AD PowerShell. To download the list of your Azure AD devices from the

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Azure AD – You can now automate actions when reviewing guest/external users access

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As you  know, you can invite external users (known as guest) to your organization, leading to the creation of a guest account in your Azure AD. You also know that reviewing such external access is always a complicated tasks. To assist in this process, Microsoft has introduced some time ago already a feature called Azure

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Azure AD – Continuous access evaluation is now in preview to improve Conditional Access evaluation

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As you know you can implement Conditional Access on Azure Active Directory to determine conditions of access to applications published through Azure AD. You may also already know that Conditional Access evaluation may be delayed because authentication token obtained previously by the client is not yet expired. This means when a connection condition change it

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Azure AD B2C – New access risk insights and Conditional Access are now available in preview

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As you know Microsoft Cloud services identity is based on Azure Active Directory (AAD). You may also know that Azure AD is not only available for corporate authentication for your users or external partners companies but you can leverage Azure AD for you business to consumer (B2C) application with Azure AD B2C. Well, Azure AD

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Azure AD – Conditional Access policies now applied to all client application by default

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By now, you should already know the Conditional Access feature provided with Azure AD, helping you defining conditions to authorize access to applications/resources – like requesting multi factor authentication when outside of the corporate network. You should also know that legacy authentication endpoints (like SMTP, POP or IMAP) should be blocked. Well, an important update

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