Unfortunately, Exchange mailbox databases don’t shrink, and the last thing you want is your server running out of disk space. In this blog, we explore how to monitor your Exchange mailbox database size and available new mailbox space through PowerShell.
In the show this week, Paul and Steve discuss a cyber attack reported against Azure AD Connect that inflicted a vast amount of damage to a business, Snapchat filters in Teams, two new changes to the Graph API and Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android, and more!
PowerShell is an important tool for any Microsoft 365 Admin – particularly in larger environments. In this article, Sean McAvinue outlines some key tools and concepts to help tenant admins build a ‘toolbox’ for PowerShell to make almost any scripting task easier and more robust.
On the show this week, we talk about a new report from Goldman Sachs on how Generative AI could affect 300 million jobs - and with Microsoft 365 Copilot on the front line, we consider how likely this is. And finally - Microsoft Teams "V2" - the new Teams has began appearing in Microsoft 365 tenants. Plus, you can replace your face with an Avatar, use the preview of the Loop App - and Windows 11 might be appearing on your Teams Rooms devices very soon.
Microsoft's announcement of Security Copilot is more interesting in some respects than Microsoft 365 Copilot because it promises to help organizations defend themselves better. Of course, we don't know much yet about how Security Copilot will work in the real world, but if Microsoft delivers what it says, Security Copilot could be quite a tool in the battle against the bad guys.
Conditional Access policies are one of Microsoft's most versatile and flexible security features ever built. However, there’s one area that Conditional Access can help you protect that isn’t as well known—using IP restrictions to control where a specific app can be used.
The best hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft 365 security experts are going on the road to bring our European friends a taste of The Experts Conference (TEC). Join us in London (17 April), Paris (19 April), and Frankfurt (21 April) for unmatched advice from experts such as Tony Redmond, Steve Goodman, and more!
Practical 365 is very focused on discussing management and administration of Microsoft 365 environments. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux pivots away from Microsoft and looks at another ecosystem that you might have in your network: VMware’s ESXi.
This article reviews using advanced message tracking to identify Junk-Mail and Spoof Messages through tools like Exchange Message Trace, Threat Explorer, Message Header Analyzer, and Advanced Hunting.
In this week's episode of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux discusses two lesser-known Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDCA) features: cloud discovery and the cloud app catalog. Both of which are very useful when evaluating cloud apps for use in your environment.
When migrating to the latest version of Exchange On-Premises Server or Exchange Online, two major events must take place. These events are the decommissioning of the old Exchange on-premises servers from the environment, and the consolidation of email SMTP relay servers. This article describes the planning and key factors of these events.
If you are stuck using your on-premises resources to manage a cloud infrastructure, it is an opportune time to change that with the availability of tools and functions that are now available. In this article, we focus on how to use PowerShell to manage Microsoft 365. In addition, we consider how to use cloud services to manage PowerShell code, testing, security controls, and more.
