Category: Entra

  • Entra ID and Parental Consent

    Entra ID and Parental Consent

    For organizations that store the data of young adults and children, and in some legal regions, adults who cannot consent to their own legal affairs, you need to record the Age Group for the user, along with any Consent Provided in the case of Minors. There are three categories of Age Group in Entra ID…

  • Migrating from AADConnect Sync to Entra Connect Cloud Sync Correctly

    Migrating from AADConnect Sync to Entra Connect Cloud Sync Correctly

    At the time of writing this blog post, the Microsoft guide for doing an AADConnect to Entra ID Cloud Sync migration is lacking quite a lot of detail. It contains the sum of two self referencing documents, one of which is a guide to doing the migration in a lab environment and the other is…

  • Seamless Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) Never Works

    Seamless Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) Never Works

    Microsoft 365 Purview Message Encryption, previously known as OME (Office Message Encryption) and before that Microsoft Rights Management, allows you to share protected email with anyone on any device. Users can exchange protected messages with other Microsoft 365 organizations, as well as third-parties using Outlook.com, Gmail, and other email services. The feature is part of…

  • Conditional Access Authentication Strengths

    Conditional Access Authentication Strengths

    Newly released to Conditional Access in Azure AD is the “Authentication Strengths” settings. These allow you to control the strength of the authentication you need to be used for that conditional access rule. Before this feature was available you had the option of allowing access with no second factor, MFA as a second factor (any…

  • Message Classifications, Exchange Server, Exchange Online and Outlook

    Message Classifications are a way to tag email with a property that describes the purpose of the email, for example “Internal Use Only” might be a classification to tell the recipient of the email that the message should not be forwarded. Classifications are configured by administrators and appear shortly after creation in Outlook Web App,…