In this blog I will show you how to enable Windows Defender SmartScreen in the browsers Internet Explorer 11, Edge and Google Chrome. SmartScreen is a feature built-in the browsers IE11 and Edge to protect the user against malicious websites and since a few months you can get SmartScreen as an extension for the Google…
Category: Security
Windows Defender ATP on Windows 7 SP 1 or 8.1
A few days ago Microsoft announced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection is available for devices running Windows 7 SP1 and 8.1. At this moment Windows Defender ATP is in Public Preview. Setting up your device WD ATP is available on Windows 7 SP1 and 8.1 Pro and Enterprise as you can read here and if running…
Manage Internet Explorer settings with Intune – Part 2
A few months ago I wrote this post about managing some Internet Explorer setting with the use of Microsoft Intune. I described how to disable the First run wizard, how to set the Home Page and how to add websites to the Intranet Zone using the Zone assignments list. In this new post of Manage…
Deploy Heimdal Security with Microsoft Intune
We are managing Windows 10 clients with Microsoft Intune as MDM devices. This provides us the option to deploy software (.msi files) to these Intune managed devices. Today we have a look at deploying Heimdal Security, which we use to increase security on our devices on which Windows Defender Anti-virus is also active. Editing the…
Control Windows 10 privacy settings with Intune [UPDATED]
Since the first day Microsoft released Windows 10 there is a lot to do about the data Microsoft is collecting from you when using this OS. A lot of those apps connect to the internet and you have no idea what data is collected In this blog I will show you how you can use…
Enable SSO for Salesforce with Azure AD
I was doing some testing with the integration of Azure Active Directory with Salesforce to provide users a single sign-on (SSO) experience. It is possible for a lot of SaaS apps to provide SSO using Azure AD. When SSO configured using Azure AD the user can logon with the same set of credentials to Salesforce…
Conditional Access in the new Azure portal
Azure Active Directory in the new Azure portal is in Preview now for a few months. Last week Microsoft announced Conditional Access in the new Azure portal at this article, which is situated in the portal under the Azure AD section. In this new blog I will explain in short what you could achieve with…
Azure AD Pass-Through Authentication and Seamless Single Sign-on
Last week Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Active Directory Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) and Seamless Single Sign-on. These two features are great news for organizations who do not want to use the Azure cloud for handling authentication, but want to use the on-premises Active Directory infrastructure. Microsoft already provides a solution for that with…
Multi-Factor Authentication
Today just a short article about multi-factor authentication, to get your attention on securing the login process of your (cloud) users. Everybody knows it is very important to use a complex password to access (corporate) data. But even if your users are using complex passwords, passwords are still the weak link in IT security. The…
Intune MAM Conditional Access update
Two weeks ago I wrote this article about Intune Mobile Application Management (MAM), a great solution of Microsoft to keep your corporate data save on , for example, BYOD`s. This week at Ignite a great new feature of MAM was announced, Conditional Access for Exchange and SharePoint Online. Until now it was pretty hard to…
