All about Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Exchange Online and Azure AD Administrative Units (AUs)

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 1,355 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing the content here. This post talks about the Administrative Units in Azure AD. I will also touch upon delegating mail recipients’ task for exchange online for one such similar AU. In an hybrid Exchange scenario where you sync your identities from your…

Qualys SAML integration with Azure AD

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 466 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing the content here. This article is about Azure AD integration with Qualys which is not formally documented with Qualys and is not listed as on Azure AD App gallery. That being said, not just Qualys but any…

Curious case of Exchange online on-premises high network utilization on TCP 444

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 1,183 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing it here. In this blog post, i would like to discuss with you about a peculiar issue that I went through and had couple of reasons. a) Microsoft worked on this case for 2-3 days and they…

Design scenario based Conditional Access Policies notes from the field

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 4 Comments | 1,021 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing it here. This blog has taken long to write as compared to the other blogs I usually write. I was unable to foresee how to write this as the topic is vast and the scenarios can be…

Building controlled user identity with AzureAD (OAuthOpenID Connect)

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 297 Views

Note: This article was first published on www.procloudguru.com by Alpesh .Since the website is down, I am publishing it here. The reason behind writing of this blog is to share my view on how the traditional authentication/authorization can be modernized. Gone are the days of monolithic apps which shared a common security portal or user…

How to get Report for Internet Explorer Startup Page using Configuration Manager 2012

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 9 Comments | 2,533 Views

Last week, I was having a discussion with the manager about the User IE Home page/Start page to get a report on, how many users are set to Company intranet Page. I then asked him, what is the process/method that company currently follows to set IE Home page .He then replied, GPO ? my response…

How to fix duplicate reports with double underscore (__) in Configuration Manager

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 1,440 Views

The other day, I was running the ConfigMgr reports in my lab, especially the asset intelligence reports for some hardware information. I tried to run the first report __ Hardware 01A – Summary of computers in a specific collection, it did not run successfully. The following is the error code. The report server cannot process…

Microsoft Intune – zscaler client connector connectivity issues cant reach login.microsoftonline.com

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Eswar Koneti | 0 Comments | 2,842 Views

Introduction: I was recently involved to setup Microsoft 365 POC (zero trust) and manage the endpoints such as windows, iOS, android using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune). The windows devices were set up using autopilot and are purely azure AD joined with Bitlocker keys in the cloud. To secure the internet web traffic and to enforce…