As organizations move applications and data to the cloud, the traditional corporate network becomes less effective as the main security boundary.
Employees may sign in from the office, from home, from a mobile phone, or from a company laptop in another country. This makes identity one of the most important parts of modern IT security.
One technology administrators should understand is Conditional Access. Continue reading
Managing computers has traditionally been closely tied to the corporate network.
Configure Active Directory, join the computer to the domain, apply Group Policy and use on-premises management infrastructure.
That model remains important, but the definition of a corporate device is changing.
Employees use laptops, smartphones and tablets. They connect from outside the office. Some devices belong to the company while others belong to the employee. Continue reading
One of the most common tickets an administrator receives is deceptively simple:
“I can’t log in.”
That statement doesn’t tell us very much.
An authentication problem could involve:
The application has been deploying through Intune all morning. Most laptops received it, but several machines are still showing an installation problem
This is exactly the kind of ticket where random troubleshooting can waste hours.
Instead, break the deployment into stages. Continue reading
One of the confusing parts of Microsoft cloud administration for beginners is device identity.
You open a device and see terminology such as:
Microsoft Entra registered
Microsoft Entra joined
Microsoft Entra hybrid joined Continue reading
You’ve created a configuration policy in Microsoft Intune.
You’ve assigned it to a group.
You wait.
And nothing happens.
This is one of the most common situations administrators encounter when working with endpoint management. Continue reading
PowerShell is one of the most useful tools available to Windows administrators. Combine it with Microsoft Intune and you can execute administrative tasks across managed Windows devices without manually connecting to each computer.
icrosoft has spent years moving enterprise services to the cloud.
Exchange moved to Exchange Online.
SharePoint moved to SharePoint Online.
Office became increasingly cloud-connected through Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
Identity became cloud-connected.
Device management entered the cloud through Microsoft Intune.
Now Microsoft is taking another major step:
Windows itself is moving to the cloud.
On July 14, 2021, Microsoft announced Windows 365, a cloud service designed to stream a complete Windows environment to a device. Microsoft calls this new category a Cloud PC Continue reading
Only a few years ago, Microsoft Teams was the newcomer in Office 365.
When Microsoft made Teams generally available in March 2017, the company described it as a chat-based workspace for Office 365.
By 2020, the conversation around workplace collaboration feels remarkably different.
Remote work has suddenly become a reality for organizations around the world, putting cloud communication and collaboration tools in the spotlight. Continue reading
If you have been using Microsoft’s productivity services for several years, you’re probably very familiar with the name Office 365.
In 2020, however, Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on a different name:
Microsoft 365.
This has understandably created some confusion.
Is Office disappearing?
Are Word and Excel being replaced?
Is Microsoft 365 something completely different?
Let’s take a closer look. Continue reading