If you are looking for a free way to monitor for emergency account usage, and you have A3/A5, you can use Defender for cloud apps. Note this isn’t as realtime as sentinel or Azure Monitor. Before creating the alert policy, you will need to turn on the additional app connector options for Defender for Cloud […]
Author: Nick Brown
Senior cloud solution architect for M365
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Road to CE: eduroam
In an ideal world we’d be using certificates to authenticate to eduroam, but without that you can make the experience a lot easier for managed users, when their laptop sees eduroam it will ask them just for their username (email/upn) and password, and will not ask for the certificate to valid. Hopefully I’ll have another […]
Quick blog post here explaining an Intune remediation to fix devices where they do not activate via a subscription. If your device looks like this then you don’t need to follow this guide If for any reason you have Not active in the subscription, this could mean that the CLIP Service store has become corrupt […]
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Reminder: PSTN end of life in 2025
Openreach are in the progress of moving all customers from the old analogue public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a fully digital network: Openreach puts the stopper on copper | Openreach – this means no more ISDN or analog copper lines, fiber is the way forward. As of September 2023, Openreach are only provide digital […]
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Road to Cyber Essentials: Android
This is the 8th part of my Road to CE series, in this post we’ll look at Android and fully managing Android. Microsoft + Android MDM is a lot easier than Apple, that’ll be coming up in the next post. Initial Setup First follow the instructions on Connect your Intune account to your Managed Google […]
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Road to Cyber Essentials: iOS
This is the 9th part of my Road to CE series, in this post we’ll look at iOS and fully managing iOS (iPhone/iPads), we’ll cover MacOS briefly as well for the initial setup, but MacOS will be a future post. Sadly Apple MDM in Intune isn’t as fluid as Android, but we’ll go through it. […]
This is the 7th part of my blog series on the Road to CE series. In today’s post we’ll look at Defender for Identity and Azure Identity Protection to assist with Cyber Essentials. One big area in Cyber Essentials is monitoring and removing access when a compromise occurs, Microsoft has tools built into Azure AD […]
Welcome to the 6th in the Road to CE series, this time we’re going to talk about Winget and the new application deployment methods in Intune. Winget and the new Store deployment method are a key pillar in CE, ensuring apps are up to date. This post was partially written with Bing Chat Compose. What […]
This is the 5th part of my blog series on the Road to CE series. We’ll be starting to look at using Excel to generate the report you need for Cyber Essentials. Please note I’ll be specifically talking about AAD and Intune. In sections of your Cyber Essentials you need include a list of Devices, […]
This is the 4th part of my blog series on the Road to CE series. We’ll be starting to look at the technical controls inside of Entra and Intune to assist with Cyber Essentials. Please note I’ll be specifically talking about Entra and Intune. As previous stated under Cyber Essentials you need to know the […]