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Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn 2024

Woodblock hall

Microsoft Entra External ID is one of the newest addition to the Entra family. In this session you'll learn about the different methods of handling guests and customer accounts in your environment, enabling services like self service sign-up and automatically registering your customers in a CRM system.

Handle guests and customers with Microsoft Entra External ID

Conditional Access is an essential component of "Entra ID" and assumes the role of the "Zero Trust Policy Engine" in Microsoft 365 environments.

Therefore, configuration management of the policies has become a critical and important part for Identity Administrators and Security Operations.

Microsoft Graph API offers programmatic access to Conditional Access which is the foundation to configure policies "as code".

In this session we will do a walkthrough of automation solutions to manage deployment and operations of Conditional Access at scale across the DevOps lifecycle.
During the hands-on demos we will discuss my PoC project "EntraOps" which shows the capabilities in automation and lifeycle management by using Azure DevOps (Repos and CI/CD pipelines), PowerShell and Microsoft Graph.

1. Overview of Microsoft Graph & Conditional Access 
	- Existing automation and workflow solutions
	- Considerations of "Policies as Code"

2. Introduction of "EntraOps" project
	- Advantages of "IdentityOps" approach
	- Security design and RBAC of Azure DevOps project

3. Coding & deployment of policies
	- Plan and code policies in "Azure Repos"
	- Defined policy templates and variables
	- Governance by automated validation and approval workflow
	- Pull/Push Pipeline to manage desired state
	- Safe rollout of policies across intra- and inter-tenant stages

4. Operationalization of policies in EntraOps management
	- Operational Insights and Exclusion Management
	- Security Monitoring of Policy management

EntraOps: Deploying and Managing Conditional Access at Scale

Join Chris Huntingford, Mark Christie, Antti Pajunen, and Yannick Reekmans as they share their opinions on all your curiosities related to the Microsoft Cloud. With years of experience and having seen things come and go, these MVP’s will provide unique insights into your long-time questions. Laurie Pottmeyer has accepted the challenge to moderate, and to keeping our panelists in line.
Come prepared with your questions and get ready for an engaging and informative session! Just beware: no recording or quotes are to taken out that room!

Old men yell at cloud: biased opinions to all your questions!

A successful Power Platform roll-out strategy involves several key steps, and the activities are mostly an intertwining of poetics and politics. 

In my talk, I show what it means to create a dedicated Center of Excellence team that: 
•	defines clear business objectives, 
•	identifies flagship use cases where Power Platform adds value, 
•	implements processes ad tools to establish thorough data governance, security assessment, compliance, solution design, and monitoring, 
•	and establishes a culture of continuous improvement, and mutual help in a growing Power Platform community.

Come as you are and leave this session with a clear idea of what a Power Platform adoption plan destined for success needs (and needs not!) to consider.

Targeted audience: your Power Platform strategy team, the digitization and innovation decision-makers, and your future Center of Excellence team.



The poetics and politics of a successful Power Platform roll-out strategy

Jonah Andersson shares her past experience, challenges, and important lessons learned about migrating and developing old .NET applications from on-premises to the cloud platform Microsoft Azure.  

Find out how that project turn into a fiasco not because of Microsoft Azure but of other factors.  Learn about Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Migration, and Jonah's list of advices to never make the same mistakes in your cloud migration projects. 

Important Things to Consider Before Migrating Old .NET Applications to Microsoft Azure

Everyone will agree that a solid set of rules for authentication and authorization is one (if not the) cornerstone of a Zero Trust implementation. Furthermore, everyone actually agrees that device compliance and phishing resistant MFA are the best basic measures to implement with Azure Active Directory Conditional Access. 

However, when we look at the status quo of many environments we see a different picture and anyone who has tried to roll out these basic measures to all users in a larger environment knows that this is not an easy task. 

This session is based on a lot of project experience and shows a collection of strategies, tactics and tools to make a roll-out efficient and as painless as possible.

Topics: Conditional Access, Authentication methods, Logs, Reports & Workbooks, MFA registration methods / policies, Strong Authentication, Passwordless, Zero Trust