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Continue Readinglong time no see
What a weird time to be online. Haven’t updated this in a while, and everything else has kind of fallen apart too, right? anyways lets ramble HOUSEKEEPING: yes, I have continued to do the Holiday Hack. No one saw fit to give me an honorable mention this previous year, probably because I complained too much…
Continue ReadingManage-MgUserAuthenticationMethods
I have published a major update to my Azure AD MFA Management script: https://github.com/blakebourgeois/Manage-MgUserAuthenticationMethods A few years ago, I spent a weekend with a test Azure AD Tenant creating a way to streamline viewing and clearing a user’s MFA methods. It definitely helped my understanding of the whole process, and I was able to fork…
Continue ReadingSANS Holiday Hack 2021
This is now a SANS Holiday Hack blog. Just kidding! It almost feels that way though since it’s the one thing I can be reliably counted on to produce routinely. I liked last years decision to use Github to track my progress, so the full repo with my miscellaneous notes can be found here: https://github.com/blakebourgeois/HolidayHack2021…
Continue ReadingDemystifying Legacy Auth and Protocol Protections in Azure AD and O365
This blog post is honestly a few years too late, but since Microsoft cancelled their initial deadline for preventing the use of legacy authentication and provided new ways to connect to older protocols, this is still relevant. In short, legacy authentication refers to the ability to send a basic username and password to an endpoint…
Continue ReadingSANS Holiday Hack 2020 Write Up
Now that the submission deadline has passed, here is this year’s write up! I chose to do things a little differently this year. I used GitHub to manage my notes and progress. Initially, I did it because I previously jumped between several hosts during the holiday hack, especially for activities that were easier in Linux…
Continue ReadingNew Resource: Win10 Lifecycle Quick Ref
I can’t find the Windows 10 version/expiry table on Microsoft’s site anymore. Wikipedia has a good one but the Microsoft one was compact, reliable, and detailed (especially given the COVID-19 extensions). I seriously feel a bit gaslit about it. I went through old things I mailed out referencing it, went through my Google history–as far…
Continue ReadingSANS Holiday Hack 2019 Write Up
Today I saw on Twitter that the Kringlecon recap and awards ceremony is coming up fast, in mid-February this year. With this being the case, I figured I’d quickly put out a little post and put up my write-up. Gotta make my blog at least a little bit active, right? Haven’t totally forgotten about the…
Continue ReadingO365/Exchange Online Quick Config
When I got this domain I ended up getting a Fastmail account based on the recommendation of a coworker. I hadn’t done any meaningful custom email outside of G-suite, well, maybe ever. Anyways, my quicksand.tech mail was pretty under utilized, and there wasn’t very much interesting for me to do with the platform. Meanwhile, as…
Continue ReadingManage-AzureADMFAMethods
Lately, it feels like my life has been centered around Azure AD MFA reporting and management. I had a couple of ideas this morning to really streamline some of my day-to-day. The good thing is, to play with this, all you need is a free Azure AD Tenant. For my purposes, I just needed to…
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