Once again I’m very proud and excited to announce that I will be speaking at Experts Live Europe 2017, in Berlin August 23rd to 25th. Experts Live Europe, previously known as System Center Universe Europe, is celebrating 5 years anniversary this year, after beeing arranged in Bern, Basel x 2, and last year moved to Berlin, where it was announced that the conference in the future would be part of the Experts Live Network!

Just the other day I wrote a blog post on how you could use Azure AD v2 PowerShell and Dynamic Groups based on extension attributes to set EMS license plans for your cloud and on-premises users, https://gotoguy.blog/2017/02/17/assign-ems-license-with-azure-ad-v2-powershell-and-dynamic-groups/ . And now, User and Group based licensing in the Azure AD Portal has been added in Preview! This is a long awaited feature, and works will all of your purchased services, either its EMS, Office 365, Dynamics 365, PowerBI and many more.

Cireson will soon be releasing a new web based Portal for System Center Configuration Manager, http://go.cireson.com/cireson-portal-for-configmgr . This would make it possible to access a lot of functionality for Configuration Manager anywhere with a web browser. The Cireson Portal for Configuration Manager must be installed locally, either on the Configuration Manager server or on a server close to the Configuration Manager server and database. This makes this an ideal candidate for Azure AD Application Proxy publishing, as we can make it available as an Azure AD App with all the features and possibilities that this can give, including:

In a recent blog post, https://gotoguy.blog/2017/02/17/assign-ems-license-with-azure-ad-v2-powershell-and-dynamic-groups/ , I wrote about how to use extension attributes in local Active Directory and Azure AD, for the purpose of using these extension attributes for determine membership i Azure AD Dynamic Groups. In the process of investigating my Azure AD users (synchronized and cloud based), I wanted to see how I could use Azure AD v2 PowerShell CmdLets for querying and updating these extension attributes.

After upgrading a couple of customers and our own environment til the latest Cireson Portal 7.3, I saw that the new re-arranged Admin menu was missing some expected menu elements. This is what I saw: image After investigating I found that the reason was if the logged on Admin user was configured with Norwegian display language. When I switched to English, I saw this Admin menu: image To solve this I navigated to the Localization Settings and checked the list for NOR that missed translations, and provided Norwegian translations for every related setting for the Admin menu (both the links and the labels at each admin section): image After that I could switch back to Norwegian display language again, now showing the correct Admin menu: image

While we are waiting for support for group based licensing in the Azure AD Portal I have created this Azure AD v2 PowerShell solution for assigning EMS (Enterprise Mobility + Security) license plans using Azure AD v2 PowerShell module and Dynamic Groups. The PowerShell CmdLets used here requires the Azure AD v2 PowerShell Module, which you can read about how to install or update here: https://gist.github.com/skillriver/35fba9647fbfbe3e99718f0ad734b241 Source of Authority, Attributes, Sync and Dynamic Groups In my scenario I want to use extension attributes to automatically calculate membership using Dynamic Groups in Azure AD.