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
Latest Articles
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
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
Microsoft Teams notifications
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