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I experienced an interesting issue the other day. A user was being repeatedly prompted to register his authentication details, and ending up in a redirect loop between the “proofup” page and the login one. Here’s the most interesting part – requiring the user to re-register for MFA allowed him to …
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Use the Self-service trials and purchases page within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center to controls settings for self-service purchases and trials for end users in your organization. The functionality (almost) matches the settings exposed via the MSCommerce module, so you can think of it as a UI layer on top of said module. …
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Few years back, Microsoft released a set of new policy objects, allowing us to impose restrictions on the credentials used for service principal and application objects. In a nutshell, an application management policy can be used to control the type of credentials that can be configured for any given SP/application …
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Did you know that the legacy MFA settings have been “ported” to the Entra Admin portal? Not only you can access and manage them therein, but you can also take advantage of this integration in order to enable programmatic access to said settings. Read the article to find out how! …
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A question over at Experts Exchange prompted me to refresh my memory on the process of disabling access to PowerShell for Exchange Online users. The proper way to do that, as detailed by Tony in this article, is to toggle the corresponding flag on the user object. Microsoft is however …
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