The error "AADSTS50131: Device is not in required device state" is not encountered every day. But when it does occur, many are often at a loss. Not least because this error and its cause is hardly documented or difficult to find. You can find out how to fix the AADSTS50131 error here.
It's no secret: cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated. But even the simplest techniques often lead the attackers to success. After all, the weakest link in the defense against cyber attacks is the human being. In this post, I show how you can protect Azure Active Directory (AAD) identities with the right MFA method without neglecting the human factor. Not only is the security aspect important to consider, but also user acceptance.
Azure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is undergoing a major change with the global rollout of the "Number Matching" feature for all Azure tenants. The now announced and dated rollout is the next step in Microsoft's push toward "passwordless" authentication.
Azure AD Connect (AADC) is an identity synchronization tool from Microsoft, responsible for synchronizing identity data from the local directory service to Azure Active Directory (AAD). Microsoft is announcing that the Azure AD Connect identity synchronization tool is giving way to a successor and will likely be retired in the future. Microsoft's announcement states that the successor, Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync, will take over completely.
As the business world becomes increasingly mobile, cloud services are becoming even more attractive. But what if, as is often the case, there are still dependencies on an enterprise network - on Azure, for example? The solution is obvious: a point-to-site VPN ensures communication for mobile workers. In this how-to post, I discuss how a certificate-based point-to-site VPN to an Azure VPN gateway can be automatically rolled out to mobile clients through Intune. I also discuss how certificates can be automatically issued and renewed by a Certificate Authority in combination with Intune.
Multi-factor authentication is widely used today and should be standard for all companies and individuals. But what if the configured MFA device is lost or broken? Microsoft's Authenticator App offers a practical, simple and secure solution to this problem through cloud backup of the MFA configuration. With it you can easily backup your existing MFA configuration. This article shows how to activate the backup, add another MFA device, load the backup data and remove the lost or broken device. And all of this can be done very easily in a few steps.
The digital world is changing and more and more cloud apps are being used. Both in private and business. If each of these web apps has its own authentication, chaos quickly reigns and a user must authenticate several times a day. It becomes especially complicated if a web app uses shared user credentials. … Read more
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