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Articles tagged Azure AD

Entra ID 30 March 2026

Your Users Are Authenticating With What? Hunting Down the Outlook Companion App

The Microsoft Outlook Companion app quietly registers itself as an MFA method — and most admins don't realise until it's already causing inconsistent auth flows across their user base. In this post, I walk through why I recommend disabling it, why you can't just flip the switch without breaking things, and how to use KQL to identify exactly who's using it before you do

5 min read
Entra ID 10 December 2025

Streamlining Employee Onboarding with Entitlement Management (Part 1)

Learn how Access Packages in Microsoft Entra ID can streamline employee onboarding. This post covers why Access Packages matter, how to structure dynamic groups, and how to build a fully governed Access Package using catalogs, approvals, and lifecycle settings.

5 min read
Entra ID 15 July 2025

Conditional Access Gone Too Far: Navigating Zero Trust Edge Cases

When Conditional Access meets Zero Trust, even the best intentions can backfire. In this post, we explore a real-world edge case where strict policy design blocked users from registering MFA—and how a layered policy workaround restored functionality without compromising security.

8 min read
Entra ID 5 February 2023

Getting started with Azure AD cross-tenant synchronisation

Cross tenant sync is a feature I've been waiting to see for a while and with the announcement of cross tenant access settings, I knew it...

9 min read
Entra ID 7 October 2022

Setting up Azure MFA for VPN and Remote Desktop Gateway

This article will go into detail on how to configure Azure MFA for access to on-premises VPN and RD Gateway.

12 min read
Entra ID 26 August 2022

Setting up Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync and does it run on Server 2012?

Microsoft as of August 31 2022 will retire all 1.x versions of Azure AD Connect because they include SQL Server 2012 components. If you...

4 min read
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