Labels are just stickers until you do this Most organizations stop at “we have labels now.” They think the job is done. It isn’t. A clean taxonomy is just a dictionary; it doesn’t stop a single data leak. If you’ve already…

The 2 latest post from me - the fancy sticker issue...

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I.D.E.A #002 – Will the real admin please stand up? It’s finally time for another I.D.E.A. here at agderinthe.cloud, following up on the first I.D.E.A. which hopefully helped you get your break-glass accounts under control. As you may remember…

Do you KNOW who is admin in your tenant, or do you THINK you know?

Check out my new tool for discovering and MFA/RMAU check all you admins and potential admins posted on agderinthe.cloud/2026/02/19/i...

#Entra #Security

Let me tell you a hard truth:
Your Purview labels aren’t protecting your data. They’re just decoration.
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Meeting Summaries, Transcripts, AI Notetaker & Enterprise Search | read.ai Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, ema...

🛑 This is a warning so please pay attention!

Heard about Read.ai? It’s a governance dumpster fire. 🔥
It spreads virally, records your meetings, and emails the transcripts to everyone. Including your external attendees

Save yourself the embarrassment. Block it now.
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We need to use our superpowers for good 🤭🤭🤭

Protect the users against themselves As you all should know by now, I’m not particularly impressed by the state of data governance and information security I see out there. In fact, “appalled” is usually closer to th…

Everyone thinks data breaches look like a spy film. Actually, it is just someone called Gary pasting the payroll file into a public AI to make a pie chart.

Stop waiting for common sense to kick in because it won't. Here is how to use the tech to stop them.

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Når alle eier KI, er det ingen som tar ansvar Norsk næringsliv innfører KI raskt. Men uten tydelig ledelse, klare grenser og et felles språk for ansvar, er det vanskelig å skape verdi og lett å miste kontroll.

I wrote a piece for the local newspaper: www.fvn.no/mening/debat...

Its in Norwegian 🫶

Introducing I.D.E.A. (and I.D.E.A #001) Introducing I.D.E.A. — Identity Engineering Artifacts 🥳Happy New Year everyone!🥳 With 2026 here, I’m excited to introduce something new: I.D.E.A. (Identity Engineering Artifacts) I spend quite some…

🚀 New blog post today, and with it the launch of I.D.E.A.
💡 Identity Engineering Artifacts
🔐 Small, focused #PowerShell tools for #Microsoft #Entra

First artifact is live too: I.D.E.A. #001 for break‑glass accounts
Blog:
👉 agderinthe.cloud/2026/01/06/i...
Repo:
👉 github.com/Per-Torben/I....

Merry Christmas and happy new year - I found my zen🥰

Huge Entra Passkeys changes – Part 2 In Part 1 we looked at how enabling synced passkeys in Entra immediately enables support for iCloud Keychain and Google Password Manager in addition to Microsoft Authenticator mobile app. We also t…

Passkeys > Passwords.
Microsoft Entra now supports Bitwarden & 1Password, making passwordless sign-in a reality across platforms.

Stop relying on phishable MFA ➡️ move to passkeys today.

👉 agderinthe.cloud/2025/12/16/h...

#Passkeys #Entra #Security

Huge Entra Passkeys changes – Part 1 If you’ve read my earlier posts regarding passkeys, you know that Entra Passkeys was my number 1 anticipated feature in 2024, even more than Copilot for M365. It was launched in public previe…

🔥 Entra Passkeys just got a major upgrade!
Syncable passkeys = convenience, but at what cost?
I dive into the pros, cons, and real-world impact in my latest blog post.
💬 Would you trade security for usability?
👉 agderinthe.cloud/2025/12/09/h...
#Entra #Passkeys

Oversharing hangover? Microsoft 365 Copilot Personal Content Mode, finally a Copilot button for your oversharing hangover! You want to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot, but your content governance is still somewhere betwe…

Stuck between management shouting Copilot now and your security instincts screaming not yet, Personal Content Mode is the band-aid and quick fix!
How it works and how to turn it on without ruining your week here agderinthe.cloud/2025/12/08/o... - DONT LET THIS BE A PERMANENT FIX!

Look at how cute we are 🥳🥰

Still over the moon about our session on NIC @per-torben.sorensen.ws 🫶🫶

And our 2 year workaversary marriage ❤️

Celebrating Two Years of Cloudy Shenanigans! December 1st 2023 marked the very first post on AgderInThe.Cloud, and somehow two full years have already passed. What started as a small idea has grown into a shared space for knowledge, experienc…

🎉 Celebrating Two Years of AgderInThe.Cloud!
What started as a small idea has grown into a platform for insights, real-world experiences, and honest governance discussions. agderinthe.cloud/2025/12/01/c...

I can attest to this. Best buy EVER!! It even heat up the area around ❤️❤️❤️

#ESPC25 in Dublin ✅️
Surprisingly its AI here too 🤷‍♀️
There is no question about Microsoft taking AI and Security seriously 👌

Copilot Researcher & Claude Just when you thought Microsoft 365 Copilot couldn’t possibly get any busier, Claude has joined the line-up. Yes, Anthropic’s AI wunderkind is now happily roaming around Word, Outlook and Teams lik…

Claude is now inside Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Yes your data can leave Microsoft. Look at Purview, its time..

And still, Researcher just became frighteningly good.
Test it like an adult.

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Oh we just love the deadlines...

Yet another deadline – and this one is RISKY! A few months after the scramble over Authentication methods in Entra, we yet again face a deadline that actually matters if you care about keeping things secure. This time it is your risk policies …

🚨 Yet another deadline – and this one is RISKY! 🚨

😱 On October 1, 2026, legacy risk policies under Microsoft ID Protection retire,but there are no auto-migration this time!

#Entra #ConditionalAccess #Security

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What the Ignite Book of News really means for SharePoint, Teams, Purview and Copilot From chaotic collaboration to grown up governance, the latest news from Ignite 2025 and what it really means for SharePoint, Teams, Purview and Copilot There is something oddly comforting about Mic…

Ignite in one sentence,
Agents here, agents there, agents everywhere.

New post is out and yes, Microsoft has entered its agent era and no, your messy SharePoint is still not ready for it.

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Diving into geo filter with Entra Conditional Access – Part 3 In part 1 we talk about the “why” of geo filters in Entra, and in part 2 we covered the “how” of building the foundation. All of this with Zero Trust in mind, and focusing on reducing t…

🚨Geo Filters in Conditional Access. The real challenge? Exceptions.
✅Access Packages solve this. They make exceptions controlled, time-bound, and auditable.
👉 Full post here: agderinthe.cloud/2025/11/19/d...

#Entra #ZeroTrust #IdentityGovernance #AgderInTheCloud

Diving into geo filter with Entra Conditional Access – Part 1 After a hectic few weeks and the NIC conference now behind me, it’s time to get back to blogging! 🥳 This will be the first part of a small blog series where I want to talk more in detail abou…

🔐 Geo-blocking in Entra Conditional Access – low effort, high impact? 🌍

✅ Why it matters
✅ When it works
⚠️ When it doesn’t
💡 And how to start thinking about your own setup
👇 Read the full post below
agderinthe.cloud/2025/11/06/d...
#Entra #IdentitySecurity #AgderInTheCloud

NIC - RebelEdition ✅
@per-torben.sorensen.ws

Solving Governance Gaps in Entra ID with Directory Extensions When Governance Meets Reality If you’ve ever spent weeks designing Microsoft Entra ID Governance workflows, you know that feeling — everything looks perfect in the documentation. Your access packag…

If you’ve ever spent hours building Entra ID workflows only to see them fail on the first test, you know the frustration.

agderinthe.cloud/2025/10/31/s...

#MicrosoftEntraID #IdentityGovernance #AccessManagement #EntraID #MicrosoftEntraIDGovernance

Sooon we're up at room 4 - NIC RebelEdition!!
@per-torben.sorensen.ws #NIC #crayon #rebeledition

Been speaking a lot lately, and the imposter syndrome is real.
I havn't mastered it, Im still working on it.
But I am done shrinking.

I wear pink. Not to be cute.
But to be seen
Because I am tired of being told to quiet down, be less.

Im not lucky to be in the room.
I earned my place.
Im staying.

A DIY Purview Journey for Small Admin Teams: Copilot Starts with You To roll out Copilot, you have to be ready. It’s not that Copilot is inherently risky, it’s that every project before it has the long tail of “we can finish this later” or “once this is done.” That …

New post is up about Microsoft Purview and how *small teams* can implement Purview to reduce risks with a Copilot Implementation. agderinthe.cloud/2025/10/24/s...

This is 1 of 4 planned which piggyback on @missholtklimpen.bsky.social's posts: Why AI needs Grownups in the Room.
#Purview #Copilot

Wooohooo!! Great day and great to be able to hang our 🤩

MVP-dagen - its a wrap and you were great 🥰🥰🥰