General Welcome! I'm glad you found my blog. Here you can find articles about problems and projects from my consulting work with focus on Cloud Security and Cloud Automation. Written by Tobi Kritten 2 December 20203 December 2020
General Global Entry Appointment Checker Written by Tobi Kritten March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Anyone familiar with the Global Entry program in the USA knows that it is not easy to get an interview appointment. The appointments are booked up within a very short time and you spend ages trying to find a slot on the Trusted Traveler Program page. There are some services like appointmentscanner.com or geappointments.com, but they cost quite [...]
General Community Talk: 10 Use Cases with Azure AD, Endpoint Manager and Defender Written by Tobi Kritten July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 In this talk I presented 10 real world use cases around Azure AD, Endpoint Manager and Defender for Endpoint/Identity. In particular, it was about experiences and best practices that you can't read about on docs.microsoft.com 😄
General Azure AD Single Sign-On Deep Dive Written by Tobi Kritten 17 June 202217 June 2022 The Global Security and Compliance Conference took place on June 14 and 15 - and I gave a presentation on Azure AD Single Sign-On. When connecting external applications, single sign-on should be an absolute standard. In this talk, you'll learn why, how exactly the most common SSO standards work in Azure AD in conjunction with Windows [...]
General Teams App Development - Community Talk Written by Tobi Kritten 15 June 202213 June 2022 In the spring, I gave a talk on custom app development in Teams. In addition to the different types of apps, you can learn more about the architecture of a Teams app, which technologies and components can be used to develop an app, and how it is operated and deployed.
General Cloud App Development - Community Talk Written by Tobi Kritten 13 June 202213 June 2022 The post-Covid era begins - at least as far as in-person events in the tech community are concerned! At the Global Azure Bootcamp in Cologne, I was allowed to give the keynote on "Cloud App Development". Content of the talk are the most important PaaS services in the Azure world for me, e.g. Azure Functions, Key Vaults, Storage Accounts and Application Insights. You can find the slide deck here:
General Automate Acronis Agent updates with Azure Functions Written by Tobi Kritten 1 February 202120 July 2021 If you use Acronis Cloud Backup with many agents and/or customer tenants, you know the problem: you have to update the agents manually at regular intervals. This can be extremely annoying, especially if you have to work through multiple tenants. As an automation geek, it made sense to delegate this task to Azure Functions 😄 Manually updating agents is [...]
General Secure Active Directory + Azure AD SSO and disable RC4-HMAC Written by Tobi Kritten 22 January 202123 January 2021 The insecure encryption RC4-HMAC is an old Active Directory hat - and unfortunately still relevant. In this post, I explain how to securely disable RC4-HMAC in environments with Azure AD Connect and Single Sign On.
endpoint manager Intune: macOS FileVault Recovery Key missing Written by Tobi Kritten 2 December 202022 January 2021 You use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (formerly Intune) for device management of macOS devices and you don't see a FileVault Recovery Key? In this article I will show you how to make the recovery in Intune "visible"!