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The next step in a passwordless Windows experience

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:15:00 +0000

We most likely all know passwords don’t have a future and therefore I’m happy more and more companies embrace authentication options without using a password (passwordless). One of the companies that is at the forefront of this is Microsoft, at least on Windows (of course on Windows). Microsoft supports passwordless authentication options like Windows Hello [...]

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Onboarding a passwordless Azure AD user

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:33:00 +0000

Onboarding a passwordless Office 365 user, is that possible? That was the question I recently asked myself. I’ve been using my Azure AD account without a password I guess for about a year now. I changed my password to something hard to remember and since then signed in to my Office 365 account without my [...]

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Configure FIDO security keys as the default sign-in option for Windows

Peter Klapwijk — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:18:00 +0000

Today a short article on configuring FIDO2 security keys as the default login option for your Windows devices. I describe how we assign the default credential provider with Microsoft Intune, which is the logon setting to configure the FIDO Credential Provider as the credential provider. Besides configuring the default credential provider, we can also exclude [...]

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Configure a Windows shared multi-user device with Intune

Peter Klapwijk — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 16:05:00 +0000

Besides the normal Windows user devices which we can configure with Microsoft Intune, we can configure other forms of devices. Think of kiosk devices, but also shared-multi user devices. This device type is a Windows device that doesn’t have a primary user but is shared between multiple users. It can be used in schools, where [...]

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Using your smartphone as a FIDO security with IDmelon

Peter Klapwijk — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:36:00 +0000

I have been using several different FIDO2 security keys in the past year to passwordless sign-in to my Azure AD accounts. The used keys are from different vendors like Authentrend, Feitian, and Yubico. I have one connected to my docking station in my home office for daily usage. I have one in my laptop bag [...]

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Working with a FIDO2 security key in a virtual machine

Peter Klapwijk — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:28:00 +0000

I have multiple Microsoft 365 tenants which I’m working with. And in these tenants I use FIDO2 security keys, to keep things safe, but also to test different scenarios for example to create blog posts. When I want the test the logon experience to Windows with a FIDO2 USB key that requires the use of [...]

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Secure multiple accounts with a FIDO2 security key

Peter Klapwijk — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:23:00 +0000

Today a short article to make people aware that a FIDO2 security key isn’t tied to one Azure AD/ Office 365 account. We don’t have to purchase a separate key for every Azure tenant we access. Fortunately, we can use a key for multiple accounts! Some people might have access to multiple Office 365 accounts. [...]

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Secure your Twitter account with a FIDO security key

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

A lot of people are already familiar with FIDO2 compatible security keys to sign in without a password to services like Office 365/ Azure AD. But passwordless sign-in is not the only use case for these keys. The keys can also be used as a second authentication factor for more and more online services as [...]

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Passwordless sign in to Office 365 on macOS

Peter Klapwijk — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:01:00 +0000

I have written some articles in the past related to the passwordless sign-in subject, but that usually described to experience on Windows devices. I described how to use FIDO2 security keys to sign in to Windows itself or use the key to sign in to Office 365/ Azure AD.On macOS, we are not able to [...]

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Authenticate with a FIDO2 security key for Windows Autopilot enrollment

Peter Klapwijk — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:53:00 +0000

Imagine you just joined a company. As you`re working from home, a Windows 10 laptop and a mobile phone are dropped at your house. You received a new user account, but you didn’t receive a password. Instead of that, you received a FIDO2 security key and a Temporary Access code. Setup of your new account [...]

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