Practical Endpoint: Restricting Admin Access to an Endpoint
In this episode of Practical Endpoint, we explain two approaches to restricting Admin rights to corporate devices using Intune and Autopilot.
November 5, 2024
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Four Practical Tools and Strategies for Success with Conditional Access Policies
Many organizations still find it challenging to implement Conditional Access effectively. Luckily, there is a solution for this. In this blog, we share a new open-source framework, introducing 4 tools to help create and validate access policies and strategies, ensuring that security measures are effective and efficient.
October 30, 2024
Practical Teams Phone: How to Deal with Unassigned Numbers
This installment of Practical Teams Phone covers how to deal with unassigned numbers and how the Teams Administrator can configure the unassigned number feature in the Teams Admin Center (TAC).
October 29, 2024
Practical Protection: The 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report
It's that time of the year again! In this episode of Practical Protection, we review the 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report and offer our recommendations to protect against the emerging and current threat.
October 23, 2024
Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters
In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how to use them within in functions and scripts.
October 22, 2024
Evaluating Privileged Identity Management Effectiveness
This article outlines how to get started with PIM, how to audit its use, and what workarounds could be circumventing your security controls.
October 17, 2024
TEC Tips: Why You Need to Care About Retention in Your Microsoft 365 Tenant
This blog dives into the importance of Data Retention in your Tenant and offers a preview into Joanne Klein's upcoming session at TEC 2024.
August 28, 2024
Copilot for Microsoft 365: Datacenter Investments, Customer Spend, and Black Hat Exploits
Market analysts question if companies like Microsoft will ever generate a return on their AI investment. That hasn't stopped Microsoft spending $19 billion in FY24 Q4, so they must be hopeful. Meanwhile, at Black Hat USA 2024, a presentation exploring some vulnerabilities in Copilot should make all Microsoft 365 tenants with Copilot consider how to secure their organization better.
August 12, 2024
Using the Azure Email Communication Service to Send Messages
If you're looking for an email service capable of handling large volumes of email to external recipients, Microsoft will propose Email Communication Services (ECS). Built on top of Exchange Online, ECS shares some characteristics with the High Volume Email (HVE) solution. After testing both, HVE is probably a better solution if you have a Microsoft 365 tenant.
August 6, 2024
The New Outlook for Windows Reaches General Availability
The new Outlook for Windows client is generally available, which means that Microsoft supports it for product usage. That's all fine for those who want to use the new client once they understand that a considerable functionality gap still exists between the new Outlook and Outlook classic. Fortunately, Microsoft will support Outlook classic until "at least 2029."
August 1, 2024
Practical Protection: Incident Response
Incident Response is all about people, process, and technique. In this episode of Practical Protection, we review different issues that can arise during incident response.
July 31, 2024
Practical Purview: Why a Flat SharePoint Architecture Matters to Microsoft Purview
When planning Purview controls, a flat SharePoint architecture offers the most implementation flexibility. In this first edition of Practical Purview, we review what a Flat SharePoint architecture is and how to apply different controls within Purview.
July 25, 2024