11 unmissable Practical 365 Posts from 2021
We've had a bumper year on Practical 365. To finish up 2021 here are eleven articles that you can't miss as you break for the holiday season and get ready for 2022.
December 22, 2021
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Five Issues for Microsoft 365 Tenant Administrators to Focus on in 2022
Lots happened in 2021. Looking back on events, Tony Redmond has figured out five themes that will influence Microsoft 365 tenants in 2022. You might disagree with the list Tony created (and let us know why). At least it's a prompt to be proactive and think about how developments will affect your tenant operations in 2022.
December 20, 2021
Will Teams Connect & Azure AD Cross Tenant Collaboration unlock complex migrations to Microsoft 365?
Teams Connect is coming in early 2022 and there's a lot of buzz about how this will help people work together seamlessly. For larger organizations who need to work together, but can't migrate to a single tenant, could this new functionality enable their plans to migrate?
December 1, 2021
Improve MFA Effectiveness in Your Microsoft 365 Tenant in 30 Minutes
Microsoft has released two new features to help Multi-factor authentication for Azure AD accounts work smarter and better. It's possible to implement number matching and additional context for MFA challenges in 30 minutes, and the two increase the security of MFA. It's something that every Microsoft 365 tenant administrator should consider, as we explain here.
November 22, 2021
Practical Steps to Defend Cloud Infrastructures from On-Premises Infection
According to a Microsoft presentation at TEC 2021, organizations moving to the cloud from on-premises infrastructures should pay attention to security weaknesses that could be introduced from on-premises accounts. It's all too easy to allow a highly-permissioned on-premises account to evolve into one that has full access across a Microsoft 365 infrastructure, and that can lead to terrible consequences if attackers penetrate the on-premises infrastructure and compromise the accounts.
November 18, 2021
Using Adaptive Scopes with Microsoft 365 Retention Policies for Users and Groups
Adaptive scopes are a new way to dynamically target sets of locations (sites, users, and groups) for Microsoft 365 retention policies. In this article, we discuss the basics of adaptive scopes and how to build the filters used in the scopes, and then how to use adaptive scopes in retention policies. Adaptive scopes are well suited to the kind of processing needed by large enterprises, which is good because they required Office 365 E5 licenses.
November 11, 2021
Using the Microsoft SDK for PowerShell to Report Azure AD Account Sign-ins
The Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell can be used for many purposes, among which is access to Azure AD account sign-in data. In this article, we explain how to use the SDK cmdlets to retrieve sign-in data for both tenant and guest accounts and report what we find. You can use the report to identify potentially unused accounts which might not need some expensive licenses, or guest accounts that are no longer used.
October 26, 2021
How to Create a Microsoft 365 Licensing Report Using the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell
After figuring out how to convert a script from using Azure AD licensing cmdlets (due to stop working in June 2022), we move on to create a licensing report for a tenant using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell. The code is pretty straightforward, but you need to do some up-front work to extract and prepare some input files containing product and service plan codes. Given that Microsoft is increasing its license fees, it's a good time to report this information...
October 14, 2021
Azure Bootcamp – Learn From Global Experts
On September 30, 2021, IT pros and developers from South Africa are coming together once again to host the first online Azure Bootcamp event! User Group Leads will bring you the latest information and features about Azure and Cloud Computing. The online event is free and hosted live on Twitch.
September 29, 2021
Connecting to the Microsoft Graph Using the PowerShell SDK
The Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell exists to help developers use Graph API calls from PowerShell. It works, but like anything in life, there's a right way to connect and use the SDK and a wrong way. In this article we explore topics like how to connect to the right tenant, how permissions are managed (or not), and why running Graph SDK cmdlets interactively isn't something you should do in production. Good as the SDK is, Microsoft has some big issues to solve to address some obvious security issues.
September 23, 2021
Azure AD App Management Method Policies Harden Application Security Posture
Still in public preview, new application authentication method policies will help Microsoft 365 customers adhere to best practices for managing application credentials, while asserting pressure on ISVs to do the same. Going forward we can expect this to turn into a standard configuration, enforced across many organizations. To address the problem, Microsoft is ready to release a set of features to help. In this article, we introduce you to Azure AD application authentication method policies, one of the features in the set.
September 22, 2021
Microsoft Forces Move from Azure AD Cmdlets for License Management
On June 30, 2022, Azure AD and Microsoft Online Services cmdlets will stop working for license management. The result is that you need to upgrade PowerShell scripts which use these cmdlets. The choice is to use Graph API calls or cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. In this article, we explore the steps necessary to upgrade a script to remove service plans from an Office 365 license (SKU).
September 9, 2021
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