Blog posts, news and opinions about Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services and applications.
Inactive accounts aren’t glamorous, but they’re a real risk! In this episode of Practical Protection, we dive into the basics of inactive account blocking and share some PowerShell scripts to help automate this process.
In this installment of Practical PnP, Sean McAvinue dives into how PnP PowerShell can help to improve automated Teams provisioning using templates and preset structures.
Most Microsoft 365 tenants have a collection of Entra ID apps to manage. One task might be to control access to Entra ID apps, so the question is how best to do this. Assignments for users and groups control the ability to use apps while custom app roles are there for developers to determine what a user can done when they run an app.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to setup secure connections between clients and servers. In this blog, we review TLS 1.3, its changes and advantages, and compare it to its predecessor, TLS 1.2.
Join Steve Goodman and Rich Dean for Rich's final episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, where they reflect on memorable guests and insights from past episodes. Plus, meet new co-host Bastiaan Verdonk, a cybersecurity expert with over 28 years of industry experience, as they discuss AI developments and the future of technology.
Everyone's very excited about the potential goodness of Copilot agents, but how Microsoft 365 tenants will manage potentially thousands of agents in the future is something that isn't clear. Some administrative capabilities are in the Microsoft 365 admin center, but are these sufficient? We don't think so, and this article explains why and what we'd do about the problem.
Join Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux to discuss Microsoft's latest announcements, including the surprise move to make Copilot Chat free for all Microsoft 365 users, significant changes coming to Exchange Online audit logging, and the new Outlook's arrival via Windows Update. Plus, get their takes on Microsoft's major AI reorganization with the new CoreAI division, and what all these changes mean for IT pros as we start 2025.
Microsoft Teams Voice and Face Recognition has been around since the beginning of 2024, but it is not configured by default. This blog reviews what this feature does, how to enable it, and an important update coming in February 2025.
Purview Data Lifecycle management includes many ways to apply retention labels to SharePoint Online files, some of which require E5 licenses. Tools are available to show you what files have retention labels, but finding unlabeled SharePoint files is difficult because no out-of-the-box methods are available. Here we show how to use a content search to find unlabeled SharePoint files, and how to adjust the search results to have usable data for further processing.
Often tenants create user sign-in reports based on the sign-in data held in user account properties. This article explains how to supplement that information with insights about the apps users sign into using sign-in audit logs. The combined information is more valuable than simply knowing when someone last successfully signed in.
In this week's episode, we dive deep into Microsoft's latest announcements and changes that will impact your organization in 2025 and beyond. We examine the reasoning behind the cloud.microsoft domain rollout, what the retirement of Viva Goals means for organizations invested in OKR solutions, and discuss the implications of the forced transition to the new Outlook for Windows by 2026.
This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Power Automate Flow to create a workflow that sends a weekly digest email of Microsoft 365 Roadmap updates.
