Why I love the Microsoft Authenticator App: because now it sends security notifications!

I cannot hide how I use and love the Microsoft Authenticator App. If you enable MFA logins for all your cloud services, it’s like magic: even without any internet connection, the app generates a code that you can use it as an additional factor of authentication. How it works now with these additional security notifications?…

#AzureAD Baseline Protection and Policy in Public Preview

It is crucial to protect your admin accounts, especially when we talk about Azure services. There is a new feature in Public Preview to implement it today, that will effectively protect your Azure AD privileged accounts. During the last year, identity attacks have increased by 300%. To protect your environment from the ever-increasing attacks, Azure…

#AzureAD Password Protection and Smart Lockout are now in Public Preview

One more cool feature related to Azure Active Directory, especially for those of you that care about security. Remember that the GDPR mandates for a strict security baseline, in order to protect personal data. So this new feature that was announced in Public Preview, forces or audits the passwords that the Azure AD users use;…

How to Think About Exam Preparation in This New World

As Microsoft embraces the power and flexibility of the cloud to deliver their software and solutions, we are experiencing ripple effects on our learning and exam content. Features and functionality in the software is changing on a monthly, weekly, and, in some cases, daily basis. This challenge is not unique to Microsoft. All IT learning…

[ΕΡΕΥΝΑ] Πόσο αξίζει μια πιστοποίηση Microsoft;

  Όσοι από εσάς έχετε κατεβάσει το δωρεάν eBook που είχα γράψει τον Νοέμβριο του 2017, σίγουρα θα θυμάστε ότι είχα αναφερθεί στην αναγκαιότητα του να μπορείς να αποδείξεις ότι έχεις τις κατάλληλες τεχνικές γνώσεις, προκειμένου να έχεις ένα πλήρες επαγγελματικό προφίλ. Και για να λέμε και τα πράγματα με το όνομά τους, στο σημερινό…

Improvements to #AzureAD Connect Health sync error reporting

You should remember some previous blog posts related to the Azure AD Connect Health service, which allows you to monitor and gain insights into your hybrid identity infrastructure. The good thing about this service is that it also provides reports about synchronization errors that might occur while syncing data from on-premises AD to Azure AD…