Reflecting On My First Speech At #mscloud4itpro
On Wednesday, the 4th of September 2024, I had the pleasure of attending the third MS Cloud for IT Pro Zentralschweiz event of the year alongside my colleagues, Flavio, Mika,…
Posts by Michele Blum
Understanding Authentication Methods for Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop (short AVD) is a desktop and app virtualization service running in Azure. To ensure secure and efficient access to AVD, it’s crucial to understand the various authentication…
What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
As many of your employees or customers continue to work with virtual desktop environments, Azure Virtual Desktop (short AVD) remains a crucial solution for delivering secure and scalable virtual desktops…
NetExtender Breaks Connection To Microsoft Services
A problem earlier this year has been identified with SonicWall NetExtender interfering with Microsoft 365 authentication. This issue was raised by SonicWall with the ID SMA-4585. The VPN client, NetExtender,…
Change permissions of foreign principals
As a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner, you are responsible for managing your customers’ Azure usage and systems, which requires admin privileges. These privileges can be reinstated by your customer…
How to migrate classic co-administrator roles to RBAC
Some of you already have seen the message in access control (IAM) blade: Classic admins will be retired on the 31st of August 2024. Starting on the 3rd of April…
How to migrate legacy authentication policy settings
Some of you already have seen the message in the authentication methods menu: On September 30th, 2025, the legacy multifactor authentication and self-service password reset policies will be deprecated and…
Secure Your Microsoft 365 Access With Hardware Tokens
In the past few months, I was involved in several Azure Identity & Access Security projects. All of them had something in common, rolling out multifactor authentication. 90% of the…
Microsoft 365 Backup Preview
Microsoft 365 Backup is an in-place backup solution of Microsoft. For the Microsoft 365 Backup, there is no additional software or 3rd party tool needed. Microsoft is brining a long…
Secure your access to AVD with hardware tokens
If your users are unable to use their phones (neither private nor company) or have a non-personal account for accessing the Microsoft 365 Portal or AVD, this might raise some…