Practical Protection: Fernando Corbató’s Nightmare Legacy
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
October 31, 2022
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Practical Protection: Security Principles for your Exchange Environment
Welcome to the first installment of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux. Paul illustrates four general security principles and talks about how you can practically apply them to your Exchange environment.
October 18, 2022
Microsoft 365 Throttling Stinks
Based on his recent TEC talk session, Paul Robichaux explains what throttling is, how it works, and how to avoid it!
October 5, 2022
Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection
Microsoft recently released Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection. Learn how it works and how to enable it!
September 5, 2022
Block Macro Execution with Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS)
Organizations can block macro execution by applying policies to Office apps. This article shows how with the Office cloud policy service (OCPS), a web-based tool included with all Office 365 plans that lets you define and apply policy settings to Microsoft 365 for enterprise apps through a cloud-based console.
July 19, 2022
New Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerability Times Two: Follina and DogWalk
Follina and DogWalk are both vulnerabilities arising from the bundled Windows diagnostics toolset. Microsoft hasn’t released any patches for these yet, but Defender will block Follina and there are various other mitigations strategies discussed in this post.
June 8, 2022
Changes in Microsoft 365 Apps Channels and Why You Should Care
Paul Robichaux explains recent changes in how Microsoft 365 Apps Channels updates are deployed and why it matters to you. He'll also cover how to effectively control which users have which versions of the apps and when, and how, those apps will be upgraded.
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