This is the third of a three part blog which covers a walk through of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. Other parts can be found here: Part 1 – https://morethanpatches.com/2020/12/04/microsoft-identity-protection-1 What Identity Protection is, what you need and what the policies are. Part 2 – https://morethanpatches.com/2020/12/04/microsoft-identity-protection-2 Looks at the reporting sections and what information…
This is the second of a three part blog which covers a walk through of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. Other parts can be found here: Part 1 – https://morethanpatches.com/2020/12/04/microsoft-identity-protection-1 What Identity Protection is, what you need and what the policies are. Part 2 (this one) Looks at the reporting sections and what information…
This is the first of a three part blog which covers a walk through of Microsoft Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. Other parts can be found here: Part 1 (this one) What Identity Protection is, what you need and what the policies are. Part 2 – https://morethanpatches.com/2020/12/04/microsoft-identity-protection-2 Looks at the reporting sections and what information…
This one landed into Microsoft Intune in June 2020 but I’ve found many customer aren’t aware of it, so I’m writing this up for reference. That’s a shame too because many customers have asked for this over the past few years. What I’m talking about is the capability to still have you IT admins manage…
I did some work recently with an organisation who use specialised ‘tough’ tablets from a company named Getac. The project I was working on was a Windows 10 upgrade and as part of that upgrade, as any good desktop admin knows, we should be updating the BIOS/UEFI firmware as part of any operating system upgrade.…
Just a quick workaround post here. I was working with a customer recently who had a newly provisioned Configuration Manager with all GPOs and their standard server products installed. As part of the install, the Endpoint Protection Point was required so that they could use and manage System Center Endpoint Protection/Windows Defender. After picking up…
In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1710, Microsoft introduced client support for Cryptography: Next Generation (CNG) certificates. Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 adds further support to this to cover HTTPS enabled management points, distribution points and software update points. If you are reading this and have no idea what CNG certificates are then check out these…
Before we get into this I should state that I’m not an IT security expert, I apologise up front for any inaccuracies or misunderstandings I may have made in this post. Feel free to correct me in the comments I was asked recently to extend an existing Configuration Manager environment to manage a number of…
So Windows 10 is now out in the wild and millions of people worldwide are already using it – dare I say, quite happily. Now obviously the take up for businesses will be somewhat slower. There is far more to consider not only in the deployment, but the return on investment of both time…
I’ve been using powershell with Configuration Manager recently and I’ve been looking at security roles. If you’re looking to create your own security roles with powershell and you don’t already have a template, you’ll first need to copy one of the existing roles to get started. To do this you need to know the role…
More than patches 