MDI alerts have a number of different learning periods, and each is well documented. However, there is not a single list of all the alerts that have learning periods for easy reference, so I have created and will update this list.

Azure AD’s B2B capability is a really powerful way to leverage identities from outside of an organization, but is it the right solution for seasonal, temporary, or white listed employees? Maybe, maybe not, and if not then the creation of cloud only accounts may require a time consuming (possibly manual) request > approval > provision process.

I began my career as a software developer and I still love the opportunity to tinker with code from time to time. Since I usually deal with authentication and identity I have a need from time to time to demonstrate how customers can add their own custom applications to Azure AD and how the protections can be applied. So, I spent a few days recently building and testing my own, single page, custom application based on the latest version of Angular (Typescript).

James Carville’s campaign strategy for Bill Clinton’s ‘92 campaign was “The economy, stupid!” These 3 words left no doubt to what was important, what to focus on, and the fact that getting the Economy right would make everything else possible. Today, as we look at changes to the corporate IT network and infrastructure we should adopt a similar slogan:

Many organizations want to delegate enabling and disabling MFA for a user to their helpdesk, but the only RBAC role that allows MFA management is the Global Administrator and no one wants to grant helpdesk technicians Global Admin access to their tenant. However, there is a way around this RBAC limitation if your organization has Azure AD Premium.

As a Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft who covers Identity and Security I get a lot of questions about Office 365 MFA vs. Azure Active Directory MFA around the differences, benefits, and what I suggest. Customers always assume because I concentrate on the EMS stack Microsoft offers (Intune, Azure AD, Azure Information Protection) I recommend Azure AD MFA over Office 365 MFA, but the reality is when customers really compare the experiences they will almost always go with Azure AD MFA.

I often support ADFS configurations that are used to enable Client Certificate Authentication. Typically, these deployments are straight forward: we have certificates that cover the URLs ([sts url] and certauth.[sts url] see this article for more details), we enable the client certificate authentication and it works.

Then there are the other deployments.