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
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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 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
Practical Teams: Secure Meetings with Teams Premium
Securing Teams meetings with Teams Premium offers organizations multiple options to protect sensitive information. In this blog, we review those options and share some tips along the way.
July 24, 2024
Practical Protection: Outage Preparation
In the wake of the recent CrowdStrike outage, Paul Robichaux dives into what you and your organization should do to prepare for the next unforeseen Microsoft outage.
July 23, 2024
Places, Outlook Classic, and Teams Rooms Upgrades: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E23
Microsoft Places preview, Outlook Classic rebrand, and AI upgrades for Teams Rooms highlight this week's Practical 365 podcast. We discuss the potential impact of Places in the hybrid work landscape, the implications of Outlook's renaming, and how AI-powered speaker recognition is enhancing Teams meetings. Plus, we cover key Microsoft 365 roadmap items, including automatic work location settings in Teams and new Copilot features coming later this year.
July 18, 2024
All You Need to Know About the Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway
Microsoft Teams SIP gateway is an option to connect native SIP devices to the Microsoft Teams platform. In this blog, we review the SIP gateway and discuss some usage scenarios.
July 17, 2024
Practical Sentinel: Adding Networking Data to Microsoft Sentinel
Are you looking to ingest your data into Sentinel? In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we review use cases and tips for ingesting networking data into Sentinel.
July 15, 2024
Welcome to Practical SharePoint
Welcome to Practical SharePoint! This episode is the first of a series aimed to help SharePoint administrators enhance their skills in managing SharePoint Online.
July 9, 2024