Ubiquiti UID and Microsoft 365: SSO with your VPN

Reading Time: 5 minutes One Identity My home network has been Ubiquiti Unifi stuff for years now and I am quite happy with their products. It didn't fail me during numerous video conferencing calls since March 2020 (you know why…). Now that I am increasingly away from home, I do use the L2TP VPN solution more often to acces my home resources. Unfortunately, this solution has a separate set of credentials. I would really like just one identity to ru… access all my Microsoft

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Exam MS-220 Exchange Online Troubleshooting list of sources

Reading Time: < 1 minute This month the beta exam MS-220: Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Online became available. This exam will provide the Microsoft 365 Certified: Exchange Online Support Engineer Specialty. Microsoft Learning announced this new certification in March. Because it's a beta exam there is not a lot of training material or courses (yet) you can use to prepare. I've created a list of reference articles while preparing for this exam myself. I did something similar with the Exchange Server 2013 beta exam! 🤓 You

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I will host an ESPC live webinar "Controlling your Enterprise Mail flow" on October 26th

Reading Time: < 1 minute I will be hosting a webinar on the 26th of October with the title "Controlling your Enterprise Mail flow". The European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference (ESPC) is hosting this live event webinar. It is a topic I have frequently visited before. However, I still find organizations struggle with it. If you are an mail admin and struggling with this, this webinar might be for you! The session abstract: In "Controlling your Enterprise Mail flow" , Microsoft MVP Dave

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One year at NeoNomads! Eight years as an MVP!

Reading Time: 2 minutes 2020 has been a weird year for me. We sold our house and bought an apartment, moved to a different city in The Netherlands and soon after that, decided to quit my job at the same company for over 18 years. A difficult decision but a necessary one. I planned to take three months off for some travelling and self-reflection and to decide what to do next. And then the pandemic happened… Yeah, those where some interesting weeks (read: I

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I will be speaking at a WICCA online event next week!

Reading Time: < 1 minute It's been a while, but I will be speaking at a WICCA online event next week. WICCA stands for "Women In Cybersecurity Community Association". Their goal is "to bring infosec ladies and female security enthusiasts together to learn about exploits, hacking, incident response, forensics, the low-level stuff and make bad crypto jokes!" At their June virtual meetup, I will be doing a presentation about mail flow. Specifically, around SPF, DKIM, DMARC and mail header analysis. An interesting topic if I

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Easily list mail DNS records via this PowerShell script

Reading Time: 2 minutes I get to investigate quite some mail environments in my work as a consultant. At a certain point you see some patterns emerging. One of those patterns is the correct configuration of mail related DNS records. It's one of the first things I check when I must check an unfamiliar environment. I have talked about this anti-spoofing topic on numerous occasions. I would compare it to a ping test when there are network issues. For several years I have worked

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Exchange Online finally has plus addressing!

Reading Time: 2 minutes During the virtual Microsoft Ignite 2020, the Exchange Product Group announced the general availability of plus address support in Exchange Online. This has been a long request feature; I blogged about this in 2014 and Microsoft already announced it during Microsoft Ignite 2019. But now it's here! Considering enabling Plus Addressing And if your re-read my 2014 post, you might read that I was a bit skeptical whether organizations would enable this. It is still certainly a feature that would

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Quick tips to limit sending mail to the wrong recipient

Reading Time: 4 minutes It happened to all of us: sending a mail to the wrong recipient. Or disclosing the other recipients to each other.Let me show some quick tips that might help limit your users sending information to the wrong recipient. Embarrassing The Dutch Data Protection Agency (Dutch: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) is responsible for the supervision of correct handing of personal data. This agency must be informed when there is a breach with personal data. It’s the agency that has its duties described within

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How To: Exchange Authentication Policies

Reading Time: 3 minutes There are several ways how you can protect and limit access to Exchange Online. Conditional Access, Client Access Rules, the older ActiveSync Device rules and, the topic of this post, Authentication Policies. These policies are available in Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2019 since CU2. This article will show you how to implement this. Why use Authentication Policies? Authentication Policies only do one thing: enabling or disabling legacy or basic authentication (I use both terms) on protocols used by Exchange

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A new job at NeoNomads!

Reading Time: 3 minutes It's time for a little personal update on what's happening, it's been a while since I've blogged. I wanted to write and post this for myself, but it might be interesting for others. It was a period of heavy soul-searching and job hunting, eventually leading me to join a new consulting company named NeoNomads as a Cloud Architect starting July 1st 2020! Leaving I was a bit restless for a few years now, but it took me a while to

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