Administrative units is an Azure AD features. She contains only users, groups or devices and permit to restrict permissions in a role. One user can be members of multiple administrative units(by division and country for example.
Group writeback permit to write Azure Group on Active Directory OnPrem. For this operation, Azure AD Connect Sync is used. Limitation The following limitation must be taken into account when Group writeback is implemented.
I received my FIDO2 NeoWave key a few weeks ago. Different models are available at NeoWave.
Today, it is important to respect the policy of least privilege. We had the ability to configure the Active Directory connector for Azure AD Connect with user account. User account without admin right. However, the Azure AD connector still needed an Azure AD account with the Global Admin role.
Azure AD Password Protection it’s an interested feature. He permit to secure your authentification by deny simple password. Microsoft update frequently a list of simple password. When you enable this feature, this list is used for deny user password if it’s on this list. This verification is performed when the password is modified by user or resetted by IT Admins
With Office 365 project, it is common to have external user access (b2b collaboration). This users may need access to a resource (sharepoint, etc.). These users usually have an Office 365 account and are therefore guest users. Nevertheless, security being an extremely important point nowadays, it is important to set up security rules.
Conditional access is a very interesting feature. It provides an additional level of security. Indeed, access to applications (sharepoint, exchange, etc.) as well as to data can only take place if the user complies with certain conditions. It is common to see conditional access activated to ensure that the MFA is activated or that compliance rules are respected. We will see a new example. I want to make sure that access to Exchange Online or Sharepoint Online from an IP…
Windows 10 allows Azure Active Directory users to synchronize their security settings and application parameter data directly in the cloud. This reduces the time required for reconfiguration when using a new device.
The addition of users in privileged groups changes more or less regularly. It is therefore important to regularly check the privileged rights given to certain users. Azure PIM can be used to review these accesses. This operation can be done manually or automatically.
Azure AD Identity permit to secure your Azure Active Directory. The Identity score is a number between 1 and 223. He permit give an Indicator for how aligned you are with the Microsoft Best Pratice. This Best Practice is a recommandation for the security of your Azure AD, users, … The Identity score feature can be used by Global admin, security admin ou security readers. The secure score contains five categories :