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What is Entra Connect and when to use it (or not)?

Entra Connect, Entra Cloud Sync or both? Many medium and large organizations continue to operate within a hybrid environment, combining on-premises infrastructure, such as servers, integrated with Active Directory. To make sure that users can access both on-premises and cloud-based services, identities are typically synced from on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID in the cloud. […]

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Entra ID licensing made simple

Services / By Audun Solheim

What is Entra ID P2? This sounds like a really basic question, but is actually a question we get from many of our customers. The answer is: Microsoft Entra ID P2 is a license for Entra ID. You have three+ license levels in Entra ID: Free P1 P2 Entra Suite The P1 license is included

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The first step in securing Microsoft 365 and Entra ID

Services / By Audun Solheim

Know your admin accounts In CloudWay we work with some of the most complex scenarios in Entra and Intune, but what gets most companies in trouble is the simple mistakes. Here we present the most basic mistake you can do and how to avoid it. Working with Microsoft 365 you need Global Administrator-access or other

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Privileged accounts in a hybrid Entra Id environment

Don’t let on-prem take down your Microsoft 365 cloud

Services / By Audun Solheim

Are you managing a hybrid environment with on-premises infrastructure connected to Microsoft 365? In this post, we’ll share crucial advice to protect your Microsoft 365 cloud from on-premises security breaches. Most of our customers rely on cloud-based Entra ID for user account management. However, many medium and large organizations still use on-premises Active Directory for

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Two EU directives made simple – NIS2 and CER

Services / By Audun Solheim

What is Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities (CER) and how does it relate to NIS2? CER will affect almost everyone working with Microsoft 365 in Europe, while NIS2 is especially relevant for those of you who work with cloud security. In this artcile we will try to tell you why. CER is a

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Entra ID screenshot showing two users for same person.

Importance of Separate Admin Accounts in Microsoft 365

Services / By Audun Solheim

Using your regular Microsoft 365 for administrator accounts is one of the most basic, most common, and most dangerous mistakes we see when working with Entra ID. 🏖️ Always having administrator access is quite comfortable when working as an IT admin. However, should your account be compromised, you are in trouble 🙅 This is why

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Conditional Access – the firewall for Microsoft 365?

Services / By Audun Solheim

🎯I think the firewall analogy as spoken by my CloudWay colleague and security expert Simon Skotheimsvik is on the spot. 🆘In this article, I’ll try to clarify some of the basics of Conditional Access (CA), making it easier for you to handle the complexity. ❓Why CA? At its best, you get a flexible approach to

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The backdoor to your Microsoft 365 tenant

Services / By Audun Solheim

🚪 And, yes, there should be a back door. The backdoor should of course be closed, have a very strong lock, and an alarm. In this post, I’ll explain why and what this backdoor is from the Microsoft 365 and Entra ID perspective. 🪟 The backdoor I am talking about are so-called break glass accounts,

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How to secure M365 with PIM and why you might not be able to

Services / By Audun Solheim

Privileged Identity Management (PIM) PIM is vital to secure your Microsoft 365 tenant using standard Entra ID functionality. In this article we explain what PIM is, why it should be present in every Entra ID configuration, and why you might not be able to use it. We’ll also highlight some more advanced options that we

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Move or migrate from Workplace to Viva Engage? 

Services / By Merethe Stave

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced that all access to Workplace will be terminated on June 1, 2026, and all Workplace data will be deleted. Meta customers or those using Workplace will receive this information along with a timeline detailing what will happen to Workplace. Currently, several customers are either upgrading their

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