This years SCU Europe 2016, for the first time outside Switzerland in the 4th year running, was held in Berlin at the BCC (Berlin Congress Center) close to the Alexander Platz in the eastern parts of “Berlin Mitte”. [caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“625”] image View from Park-Inn by Alexander Platz [/caption] The intro video introducing the Experts: https://vimeo.com/180473884 Let’s begin with the end: at the closing note SCUE general Marcel Zehner announced and with a little bit of emotion that this was the last ever SCU Europe to be held.

Last week at SCU Europe 2016 in Berlin, I presented a session on Application Publishing with Azure AD. In one of my demos I showed how to use Azure AD Application Proxy to publish an internal web application like the itnetX ITSM Portal. The session was recorded and will be available later at itnetX’s Vimeo channel and on Channel 9. In this blog post I will detail the steps for publishing the portal in Azure AD, and also how to configure Conditional Access for Users and Devices.

I’m really excited that I will have two sessions at this years SCU Europe in Berlin, August 24th – 26th. System Center Universe Europe is a really great community conference that focuses on Cloud, Datacenter and Modern Workplace Management, covering technologies like Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft Hyper-V. Read more about SCU Europe here: http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch/about-scu-europe.html I have been visiting all SCU Europe Conferences since the inaugural start in Bern 2013.

A quick update on coming changes to the Azure Active Directory Access Panel at https://myapps.microsoft.com . When I log in with my Azure AD work account I see that there is a notification that a new look is coming soon and I can try it out: image The new applications look: image The new groups look, where I can see which groups I own and which I am member of: image For groups I can join or leave, change settings for groups I own and see members.

In this blog post I will show how you can trigger the Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler with an Azure Automation Runbook PowerShell Script. Since the Azure AD Connect build 1.1.105.0 was released February 2016, a new scheduler is built-in that per default sync every 30 minutes (previously 3 hours). For more detail on Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsync-feature-scheduler/ . Normally a sync schedule of 30 minutes is sufficient for most use, but sometimes you will need to do an immediate sync.

I have a demo/test environment for Intune enrollment where I have configured Configuration Manager as the Mobile Device Management Authority. I have been thinking about a change in approach, as most of my test devices are either lightly managed PC’s or mobile devices. So I wanted to change and use Microsoft Intune only as the MDM Authority. Referring to the official documentation for setting Mobile Device Management Authority, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt346013.aspx , this can only be set initially when configuring the tenant, and cannot be changed later!