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IT Specialists, hello everyone! Finally, we are truly getting our hands dirty in this lab: today, we create the on-premises Active Directory forest (and domain) needed for our hybrid environment. Video Find the entire video below, or you can continue reading the article. Before We Begin Just a couple of observations. First observation: as mentioned in the previous video, what I will show you in building the lab will be seen more from the perspective of identity (users and devices) and their security.

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! In this first episode of Defender for Podcast, we try to focus on what the term “Microsoft Security” means: what it encompasses, which areas it involves? We will explore all of this from different perspectives: How to navigate in terms of licensing and which areas are covered by consumption and which by license. Within the licensed offering, at a high level, what is the ideal license/suite in relation to the type of company/reality: we will try to map this out.

IT Specialists, hello everyone! It’s been a while since we last met on video, but despite that, during these months of absence, I’ve been scheming in the shadows, advancing other projects and initiatives, the results of which you will see on my channels and the Microsoft Security Italian Users Group community. 😉 But enough chit-chat, this is neither the video nor the right occasion to tell you the why, the how, etc.

Waiting for “good news” at the beginning of 2024, let’s review the latest updates from Intune (release 2312), especially those that catch our attention from a security perspective: Edge Security baselines updated to v117 Support for new variables {{username}} {{devicename}} in non-compliance communication emails New visualization in the reporting of the Defender for Endpoint connector New settings in Antivirus policies (RandomizeScheduledTaskTimes and SchedulerRandomizationTime) New status metric for Microsoft Tunnel (TLS certificate revocation) Of course, these are just some of the updates.

It’s true, I neglected “Resource Friday” for a while: why? The spirit of the column was to find for you a, precisely, free “resource” to download or use in the realm of our beloved Microsoft technologies. In recent years, however, the ways in which content is consumed have changed a lot, decisively shifting towards other platforms and formats (video, social media, etc). Moreover, the speed at which product updates and new features arrive, in some cases, quickly renders an eBook obsolete.

⚠️ 🇮🇹 To my Italian speaking followers! A few days ago, the winter edition of #POWERCON2023, an online conference organized by the ICTPower.it community, took place. It is certainly correct to say that Microsoft Intune is an MDM, and its main purpose is to manage devices. However, paraphrasing a famous song from the ’80s, “beyond the endpoints, there is more”! Intune is, in fact, the pivotal tool through which to implement and deploy an infinite variety of security settings, in addition to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint configurations.