New Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerability Times Two: Follina and DogWalk
Microsoft zero-day vulnerability times two: Follina and DogWalk. Learn more about what this means for your environment.
June 8, 2022
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Changes in Microsoft 365 Apps Channels and Why You Should Care
%%excerpt%% Paul Robichaux explains recent changes in how Microsoft 365 Apps Channels updates are deployed and why it matters to you.
May 19, 2022
Why Azure AD Backup is Needed
Backing up Azure AD may sound like a counterintuitive concept to many. However, in this article, we examine several reasons aside from Disaster Recovery that support why this is good practice for enterprise organizations, now more than ever.
March 17, 2022
Every Meeting Online?
Just as in-person meetings are resuming around the world, Microsoft has begun rolling out improvements to a feature that enables you to make every meeting an online meeting in Teams or Skype for Business. Seen from the perspective of having hybrid meetings be the ‘new norm,’ the ability to have meetings default to online-only is a useful step, Microsoft still has a few rough edges to fix before these updates reach their full potential.
March 11, 2022
Deploying the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client: 2022 Update
This article walks you through how to deploy the Teams for Windows desktop client with an MSI Installer, then pushed out to clients using Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Group Policy, or other similar tools.
January 24, 2022
Doing Crimes in Microsoft 365
Many organizations have regulatory compliance requirements, so naturally they want to meet them, so they spend money. Does spending that money on compliance tools stop your employees from doing crimes and getting you in trouble? Maybe not so much if this prominent case is any evidence.
January 7, 2022
Contemplating Commsverse
Paul Robichaux provides insights from the independent Microsoft Teams conference, Commsverse, that just took place last week at Mercedez-Benz World outside of London.
September 21, 2021
For Heaven’s Sake, Just Turn on MFA Already
Microsoft has recently made major strides to improve the capability and resiliency of multi-factor authentication in Azure AD; however, this article highlights the four practical ways in which you can take advantage of MFA in your Microsoft 365 estate, and just turn the darn thing on already!
August 12, 2021
Office 365 10-Year Anniversary Series: The Arrival of Cloud Voice
Microsoft MVP Paul Robichaux shares his personal experience getting to the cloud with Office 365 after the Exchange Labs dogfood program; Lync and SfB, and the eventual advent of Teams.
June 29, 2021
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Taming Teams Notifications
There are several areas where Microsoft could improve the way Teams handles out-of-office and away-from-work scenarios. Are the default "quiet hours" reasonable? Should there be a global setting for quiet hours or do-not-disturb? While there may be good reasons to leave some of these as a tenant-level settings, you don't want to forget about the extra steps you must take to truly escape from Teams for a bit.
June 4, 2021
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Three Ways to Improve Meetings in Teams (Which You Can’t Have) And One Which Might Maybe Help a Little (Which You Can)
Having Teams meeting fatigue? Could the meeting have been an email instead? In his latest blog Paul Robichaux explores some tongue-in-cheek options for better regulation of Teams meetings, while also proposing a realistic solution to efficiently manage your time, your Teams meetings, and your sanity.
May 10, 2021
Hafnium Exchange Server Exploits: Q & A with Exchange and Security Experts
Microsoft Exchange and security experts answer the top seven questions around compromise and mitigation for the HAFNIUM Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 exploits. The Q&A was pulled from an intense, hour-long panel discussion that covers this topic in-depth.
March 19, 2021