Modern Workspace: PowerShell OAuth Error

Create PowerShell Session is failed using OAuth

When connecting to Exchange online (there was a reason I needed to do this) I had the following error:

I did some googling that luckily someone has already posted how to fix this:

https://www.vansurksum.com/2021/03/11/create-powershell-session-is-failed-using-oauth-when-using-the-exchange-online-v2-powershell-module/

It turns out WINRM’s ability to use BASIC client authentication is disabled as part of the standard Windows 10 hardening baseline deployed via Intune.

To fix these we need to re-enable BASIC client side WINRM authentication. Read more “Modern Workspace: PowerShell OAuth Error” →

Defense

Hardening Office 365 PowerShell Access

Only admins can use PowerShell, right? Wrong! In Office 365 and Azure AD standard users can connect using PowerShell.

In this quick post we are going to look at how to disable users from being able to read other users data using the MSOL cmdlets. (this also appears to limit AzureAD cmdlets access as well)

Disable MSOL Read Access

Run the following command as a global admin: Read more “Hardening Office 365 PowerShell Access” →

Defense

Active Directory Effective Permission Auditing

Active directory permissions are a complex beast, at the core of Active Directory you have databases and partitions.

These have access controls lists, there are two types of these:

DACL
SACL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/access-control-lists

In active directory auditing these with out of the box tools can be a pain, especially when you are looking to enumerate effective permissions. Luckily a nice chap as made a great PowerShell app which can help you with your auditing activities! Read more “Active Directory Effective Permission Auditing” →

Tag: powershell

Modern Workspace: PowerShell OAuth Error

Create PowerShell Session is failed using OAuth

Hardening Office 365 PowerShell Access

Disable MSOL Read Access

Active Directory Effective Permission Auditing