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Azure AD Conditional Access support for blocking legacy auth is in Public...
Howdy folks, Today I’m excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure AD Conditional Access support for blocking legacy authentication. In the past you needed to use ADFS to do this, but using...
View ArticleWhat is new in Windows 10 1803 for PAW?
In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the new features which are relevant to the PAW solution in the latest Windows 10 1803 release. Offline HGS Prior to 1803 release, to start a shielded VM, the...
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A Platforms Admin Guide to Setting up Event Rules/Monitors in SCOM
Hello to all who are reading. My name is Nathan Gau. I’m a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer and have been supporting System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for about 4 years now. Most of my blogging...
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Eight Essentials for Hybrid Identity: #2 Choosing the right authentication...
Howdy folks, I’m here to share with you the next part in our Eight Essentials for Hybrid Identity blog series, based on what we’ve learned from working with tens of thousands of organizations on this...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 SP2 servicing changes
This blog post was authored bySachin Goyal, Senior Program Manager, Windows Servicing & Delivery Team. We are moving to a rollup model for Windows Server 2008 SP2. The initial preview of the...
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How We Built (Rebuilt!) Intune into a Leading Globally Scaled Cloud Service
This is something we usually dont do here at Microsoft, but today I want to share a blog post (included below) that was written for internal purposes only. Let me answer your first question: But why...
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Hallelujah! Azure AD delegated application management roles are in public...
Howdy folks, Today is a big day. I’m bouncing up and down at my PC as I type this because I’m just so happy to announce the public preview of our new delegated app management roles. If you have granted...
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Unified policies with Cloud App Security and the Microsoft Data...
Microsoft Cloud App Security now integrates with the Microsoft Data Classification Service to create a consistent policy creation experience across Office 365, Azure Information Protection and...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release June 2018
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This is our biggest release yet! It takes the records for the most merged pull requests in a release and the most modules we have ever released at once from...
View ArticleMP Author Version 8.2
The following is a special guest blog from Silect We are pleased to announce the General Availability of MP Author version 8.2. We’ve made lots of updates and improvements to our family of products for...
View ArticlePowerShell Script Analyzer 1.17.1 Released!
Summary: A new version of PSScriptAnalyzer is now available with many new features, rules, fixes and improvements. You might remember me from my previous cross-platform remoting blog post, but just to...
View ArticleUpdate for Configuration Manager current branch, version 1802 is now available
An update rollup for System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1802 is now available. This update is available for installation in the Updates and Servicing node of the Configuration...
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Windows Server 2016 Reverse DNS Registration Behavior
Greetings everyone! Tim Beasley (Platforms PFE) coming back at ya from the infamous Nixa, Missouri! It’s infamous since it’s the home of Jason Bourne (Bourne Identity movies). Anyways, I wanted to...
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Azure AD Password Protection and Smart Lockout are now in Public Preview!
Howdy folks, Many of you know that unfortunately, all it takes is one weak password for a hacker to get access to your corporate resources. Hackers can often guess passwords because regular users are...
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Introducing Windows Server System Insights
This blog post was authored by Garrett Watumull, Program Manager, Windows Server. Today were releasing another build of the Windows Server 2019 preview for Windows Insiders. As you may remember,...
View ArticleCreating remediation actions for System Insights
Quick overview System Insights enables you to configure custom remediation scripts to automatically address the issues detected by each capability. For each capability, you can set a custom PowerShell...
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Baseline security policy for Azure AD admin accounts in public preview!
Howdy folks, Identity attacks have increased by 300% in the last year. To protect our customers from these ever-increasing attacks, Microsoft is embarking on a journey to rollout baseline protection....
View ArticleInfrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News (June, 2018)
Hi there! Stanislav Belov is back with the next issue of the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News series! As a reminder, the Noteworthy News series covers various areas, to include interesting...
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PowerShell Profiles Processing Illustrated
Hello everyone! My name is Preston K. Parsard (Platforms PFE) here again this time for a procedural review of PowerShell profiles. Now I realize that this topic is already well documented and in fact,...
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Vision + Execution: Microsoft named a leader again in Gartner MQ for Access...
Howdy folks, Some great news to share with you today! For the second year in a row, Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide,...
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