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Security Defaults – a lifesaver for some and a little pain for others

13/01/2020 /

So lets talk about “Security Defaults” a bit, this new feature in AzureAD who replaces “Baseline policies: ” in the Conditional Access pane within Security in AzureAD.

First of all – the baseline policies where in preview and could be changed before the feature went GA so we cant blame anyone of the service changing before production.

The Baseline policies gave us remediaton of MFA and and blocking of legacy authentication within 4 policies that everyone could use within Conditional Access, these four policies where free so no cost and that sweet!

  • Baseline Policy: Require MFA for admins (Preview)
    • Enabled MFA to all administrator roles within AzureAD
  • Baseline Policy: End user protection (Preview)
    • Enabled MFA registration to all users and required MFA for users with leaked password or other risky signins.
  • Baseline Policy: Require MFA for Service Management (Preview)
    • Require MFA for accessing the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell modules or Azure CLI
  • Baseline Policy: Block legacy authentication (Preview)
    • Blocked the usage of legacy authentication on all services (such as pop, IMAP, native android clients etc.

For a good time now we cound enabled one or more of those 4 baseline rules – but that ends! At February 29th 2020 Microsoft will discontinue the use of Baseline policies so if you are using some of them you need to enable Security Defaults in AzureAD.

Head into portal.azure.com -> Properties -> Security Defaults and enable it.

Please not that if you have license for using Conditional Access (Azure AD Premium P1) you cannot a Conditional Accessrule without disabling Security Defaults.

And if you have Azure AD Premium P1 you should be creating the Conditional Access rules manually and that gived you several advantages such as exclude users, pinpoint to some cloud apps or exclude them and set other requiremets aswel.

Best practice says that you should always have a “Break the glass administrator” account who is excluded from all the Requirements – but please note! That account need to be monitored and high security alerts should be raised every time the account is used.

SharePoint Online PowerShell module

09/11/2019 /

To install, update og uninstall the SharePoint Online PowerShell module there are some few simple PowerShell commands you can use.

First of all, set your Execution policy to restricted

Get-ExecutionPolicy #for checking the current ExecutionPolicy setting
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy  Unrestricted

Install

 Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

Check current version

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select Name,Version

Update

Update-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

Uninstall

Uninstall-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

Ignite – some of the news I got first day

05/11/2019 /

So! Day one at Ignite is over and what a day! A lot of new features, services and everything.

But Imust say, arriving from Norway – EVERYTHING IS SO BIG here in USA!

Anyhow – Here is a short summary from me of some (few) new features and services that where unvailed at the keynotes and some sessions

There are much more also that I did not cover in this post!

Azure Arc

Azure Synapse Analytics

Power Automate (Flow)

  • MS Flow is getting new name
  • Gives you ability to create autmations against applications which are missing API`s

Power Virtual Agents

  • Bot or “Chat” agent on websites
  • Together with Power Automate you can fill contacts schemes from a chat on a website directly into your on-prem crm system (which are missing API)

Microsoft 365

  • Project Cortex
    • Based on AI
    • Creates a Enterprise wiki automatically with the use of AI
    • Creates a “Knowledege” card on word shortnings and links you to the “Knowledge Center”
    • Greate for new employees or just as a company wiki
  • MS Stream uses AI to remove background noice on videos
  • MS Teams uses AI to remove backgrouds or bluring them
  • Fluid Framework
    • Collaboration between Outlook, MS Teams chat, PowerPoint ++
  • Office.com is more important for end-users than ever – a onestop for all services
  • Office.com gets ability to be customized with themes, company branding etc.
  • OneDrive gets filesize increased to 100GB pr. file
  • All files in OneDrive now has Delta-sync

SharePoint

  • In Search you now can edit resultspage and configure how the result is presented
  • SharePoint Homesites is in GA
  • Content Auditing
    • Highligt of changes in versions
    • Scheduled publishing of pages
    • Multi-lingual support
  • SharePoint Spaces goes Public preview arround q1 2020 (somehow togheter with Edge Chromium)
  • Modern term-store

Security & Compliance

  • Unified labes is even more unified
    • Labeled Teamsites, MS Teams and files are now the same
    • Auto labeling si based on content on a complete site
  • Information barrier
    • Based on classifications (labels) you can block out a whole department or group of people from certain areas
    • That said, Finance investors can get blocked out from the auditors filespaces for exapmle.

Edge Chromium

  • Browser in GA Q1 2020
  • Will get a Fast Track “track” to help companies embrace it

Managed Meeting Rooms

  • Monitoring of equipment in the rooms like monitors, cameras, microphones etc.
  • In Private preview right now!

Block AdHoc subscriptions in Office 365

22/10/2019 /

To block users from creating trial and adhoc subscriptions for Office 365 services or even PowerPlatform services you can turn a switch and block it. 

Set-MsolCompanySettings -AllowAdhocSubscriptions $false

To check if this is set to “False” for your tenant you can run this

Get-MsolCompanyInformation |fl AllowAdhocSubscriptions

Sensitivity labels available in Outlook Web

21/10/2019 /

The first step into enabling the use of Unified labels in Office Web apps is here! Today i got the “Sensitivity” bar enabled in my tenants.

Sorry for the Norwegian text in the picture, as “Følsomhet” is the Norwegian word for “Sensitivity”

To get started with Sensitivity labels – head over to Microsoft 365 Security portal and open the “classification” menu.

From there head in to “Sensitivity” and create a label.

Next – choose the tab for Label Policies and publish the label you created.

When testing the feature, remember to only publish the label to your self so that you not enable all users in your company to use and test it. 🙂

Get started with MFA – part two

02/10/2019 /

So in the previously post I went through how to activate MFA for Administrator roles i a really simple and effective way.

In this post we will focus on activating MFA for all regular users. And first off all we need to evaluate who should be activated first or should we activate on all users at the same time and do a evaluation on service accounts! If we enable MFA on for example a serivce account used for scan to email on “multi functional printers” or on a mailbox account witch are used on a thirdparty ticketingsystem (POP/IMAP) we could break those service by just enabling MFA on all users.

My recomandation is when you are more then 30 users in your company you should select a few ambasadeurs who is getting the MFA activated first and can therefore be the power users who can help others with the registration if there is any hick-ups (should not be many).

And to activate MFA for end users I highly recomend to use Conditional Access for

  • all users and exclude a AzureAD Group which contains a “Break the glass Admin” and other service accounts.
  • All cloud apps (no exeptions)
  • Grant Access – but require MFA

Easy like that! And It`s a realy quick solution for your company.

Drawback here is that you need “Azure AD Premium P1” licenses to use Conditional Access and a second drawback is that it`s not scored at the Microsoft Secure Score.

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