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On June 2, Microsoft made a bunch of announcements covering the future for Exchange Server. A new version will come in 2025 that will follow Microsoft’s modern lifecycle policy (i..e., no end of support dates). The downside is that customers must install updates and remain current, and must be covered by Software Assurance. For those who really want to stay with on-premises, this is a good day. And the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) is coming back (hooray!) albeit in a virtual format (boo!).
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Proofpoint says that it’s possible to attack SharePoint Online by creating so many encrypted file versions in document libraries that it’s impossible to restore good copies. The technique is viable, but multi-factor authentication is a good way to block account compromise and stop attackers getting in and encrypting files.
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is not a product you roll out and forget. To get the most out of this tool on a day-to-day basis, we walk through some actions administrators should be doing to keep current with the product.
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Domain Name plays a vital role in your organization, because it lays the foundation to support all business applications. After you have completed your content migration during a cross-tenant consolidation project and your users are working from the new target tenant, it is time to transfer the domain name space to the remaining tenant. This post outlines the five best practices to do this.
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In April, we had over 450 attendees join and ask questions in our TEC Talk on lessons learned from Office 365 tenant to tenant migrations. Get the highlights and the Q&A to the top questions asked!
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Ten years ago, Microsoft bought Yammer to get into the world of enterprise social networking. It was a big thing at the time, but less so now, and Yammer’s role inside Microsoft 365 is uncertain in the minds of many. Those who like Yammer get value from its use, but it does seem that Yammer has been left behind by apps like Teams.
Read MorePowerful New Power Platform Features, New Viva Module & More: Practical 365 Podcast S3 Ep. 5
In the last show, Paul was in Copenhagen – and this week Steve is in Copenhagen. Join us as we globetrot again, before we finally manage to be in the same place for CommsVerse next week, June 29th & 30th 2022. Table of Contents A Plethora of New Power Platform FeaturesJoin Paul Robichaux and Tony […]
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Microsoft recently added the ability to set auto-reply for group mailboxes. In this article, we explain why you’d want to do such a thing and go through some PowerShell code to show how to set appropriate auto-reply messages for team-enabled Microsoft 365 Groups.
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Conditional access policies grow and change as the tenant grows and changes, but not all of the old policies, groups and assignments are not always tidied up, leaving complex web of policies that target different groups or apps. To gain insights into this mess, I created a PowerShell script to document not just Conditional Access policy settings, but also detail who is impacted by each policy and why.
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Tens of millions of Apple devices connect to Exchange Online user mailboxes. The mail app profile on many devices still use basic authentication, and that’s a big problem because Microsoft will start to remove support for basic authentication for EWS and EAS, the two connectivity protocols used by Apple devices, from October 1, 2022. Microsoft and Apple have come up with a cunning plan to work around the problem. Success requires some administrator intervention to make sure that the app used by Apple to update the mail app profile can work without prompting the user for consent. It’s time to act!
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I used Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in a project with Microsoft 365 E5 licenses and realized it’s a handy and powerful tool at a reasonable price even if purchased as a standalone product. This post will outline practical use cases for using it to monitor and enforce restrictions on Microsoft 365 apps and some third-party apps to reduce the likelihood of information leakage.
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