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EJansen on 04-22-2021 12:05 AM

Eric Jansen here to talk about an interesting, but dangerous scenario that I've been seeing all too often in my travels.

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Joel Vickery on 04-19-2021 04:57 PM

A mild mannered IT administrator is doing routine patching when things go south. At first it seems like maybe just a cas...

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Eric_Woodruff on 04-15-2021 08:15 AM

Exploring how Azure AD and Azure AD Connect match user objects from Active Directory

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magdysalem on 04-12-2021 04:30 PM

Pod Identity is a feature allows applications deployed to communicate with AAD, request a token then use the token to ac...

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AndrewCoughlin on 04-08-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog post we will talk about an issue I ran into in the past around setting up Active Directory Authentication f...

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bwatts670 on 04-05-2021 06:00 AM

Detecting anomalies in your data can be a powerful tool. In this article we examine how to do exactly this with data in ...

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magdysalem on 03-31-2021 11:45 AM

Today as we develop and run application in AKS, we do not want credentials like database connection strings, keys, or se...

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Russ Rimmerman on 03-30-2021 09:21 PM

I've heard a bit of interest expressed recently in the ability to create a customizable Endpoint Configuration Manager (...

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BrandonWilson on 03-26-2021 11:57 AM

Investigating Hyper-V live migration failures that result in a 0x8009030E error

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BrandonWilson on 03-22-2021 10:42 AM

After a bit of a hiatus, welcome (back) to the Noteworthy News series (March 2021 edition)!

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John_Barbare on 03-17-2021 09:00 PM

Learn about the new "Warn Mode" for Attack Surface Reduction Rules and creating the profile in Microsoft Endpoint Manage...

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John_Barbare on 03-14-2021 09:10 PM

In this blog I will go over investigating an incident in Microsoft 365 Defender using the new unified portal.

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bwatts670 on 03-11-2021 05:00 AM

Looking for an easy way to make Azure REST API calls? Not comfortable writing code to do it? Well Azure Logic App to the...

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pbracher on 03-10-2021 12:00 AM

This blog is in support of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE, formerly MDATP) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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TanTran on 03-08-2021 03:36 AM

The Step-by-step suggestion for migrating MBAM Servers to MEM

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TanTran on 03-05-2021 12:44 AM

All things about USB flash drives management including access protection, Bitlocker encryption, security and troubleshoo...

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John_Barbare on 03-03-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog I will go over the Microsoft 365 Defender Security Portal and go into detail of the incident overview and e...

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John_Barbare on 03-02-2021 12:00 AM

This new workshop introduces configuration deployment in a lab using Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Microsoft Defender f...

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hewagen on 02-25-2021 10:59 PM

This blog post shows a way to enable application setups to change file type associations.

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bwatts670 on 02-24-2021 09:00 AM

Have you ever wanted a report of newly created resources in your Azure Subscriptions. Lets take a look at an option to u...

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hspinto on 02-23-2021 02:36 PM

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the implementation of automated Continuous Optimization with Azure Advi...

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John_Barbare on 02-22-2021 12:00 AM

Learn about the importance of keeping your internet browser up to date, cryptomining, and a chromium sandbox exploit. Is...

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AndrewCoughlin on 02-18-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog I will focus on how to upload a custom linux Hyper-V image for generation 2 virtual machines in Azure.

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Fabian0402 on 02-14-2021 10:07 PM

In this article, we will learn about the Site Maintenance Tasks of your MECM and how to ensure that these Tasks are up a...

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TanTran on 02-12-2021 03:33 AM

We discuss about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Antivirus Configuration, Policy and exclusion list in detail to avoid m...

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brmcmill on 02-10-2021 05:23 PM

First published on TECHNET on Mar 18, 2019 Hello everyone! I have found that Status Message Queries can be one of the mo...

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TanTran on 02-09-2021 11:42 PM

Summarizing the plan to migrate from IE to Edge Chromium with a check list.

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TanTran on 02-07-2021 11:17 PM

Configuring Microsoft Endpoint Manager to manage all SCCM's collections and their members. Assign Apps to Collection and...

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brmcmill on 02-07-2021 07:59 AM

First published on TECHNET on May 24, 2017 Hey everybody! You may have noticed that with the continuous improvements, yo...

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Eric_Woodruff on 02-05-2021 10:48 AM

Deep dive into configuring custom application consent policies in Azure Active Directory

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in You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions.... on 04-22-2021

The LAPS download is erroring out?

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in How-to: Password-less FIDO2 Security Key Sign-in to Windows 10 HAADJ Devices on 04-21-2021

Just wanted to point out this info that was brought to our attention by our customer in Nunavut, Canada: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-authentication-passwordless-security-key it now states (updated 21/04/2021): Cached logon with FIDO2 keys fails on hyb...

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in Hybrid Identity: Getting Users Aligned on 04-20-2021

@Stefan Thoma - You are correct, if PHS is enabled, the Active Directory password will overwrite the password within Azure AD. I have not had a chance to explore this yet, but within the latest version of Azure AD Connect we started to offer methods for selective filtering of password hash sync, whi...

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in How-to: Password-less FIDO2 Security Key Sign-in to Windows 10 HAADJ Devices on 04-20-2021

Some information, should it be relevant to others:I'm able to login using a YubiKey 5 NFC security key, when in the corporate network (office or VPN), internet only or when completely offline but had associated the key a while ago and subsequently installed updated to now be running Windows 10 v20H2...

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in How-to: Password-less FIDO2 Security Key Sign-in to Windows 10 HAADJ Devices on 04-20-2021

@Bpatin not yet, unfortunately. This issue is being actively worked on internally and I will post a comment as soon as I have an update.

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