At the end of March 2023, CISA released a new tool called ‘Untitled Goose.’ It is a post-incident hunting tool to help security practitioners sift through security logs in the Microsoft Cloud. In this blog, we discuss the tool, its uses, and our opinion on it.
In this edition of our series on the "Top 5 Best Practices for Exchange Online Domain Transfers," we delve deeper into the importance of validating your plan prior to implementation. Implementing a well-tested and practiced process will help prevent mistakes and encountering unknowns during the migration. Join us as we explore the key considerations for a successful validation phase.
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.
Microsoft 365 auditing makes lots of data available to administrators to help them understand what happens in a tenant. When attackers try to compromise accounts, they can leave fingerprints behind in audit data. Being aware of what you might find in the data helps suppress BEC attacks.
Are you looking to add some extra security to your small organization? Microsoft Defender for Business may be the right fit. Learn more about the capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Business and how it compares to other Microsoft Defender Plans.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 generated a lot of media hype after its March 16 announcement. In this article, we contemplate some of the implementation issues that need to be teased out before Copilot for Microsoft 365 deployments start.
Microsoft released the preview version of the Loop app on March 22. The app works well for collaboration with people from the same Microsoft 365 tenant but fails utterly once external people are involved. Some other teething problems are evident, but there's enough in the Loop app for people to make their minds up if this will make collaboration smarter within their organization.
In the third and final article in a series covering Git-based Source Control for Microsoft 365 Tenant Admins, Andy Schnieder covers how to leverage tools to streamline your workflow with Git and gain insight into some useful advanced techniques.
On March 16, Microsoft launched its latest AI-powered innovation in Microsoft 365 CoPilot, aimed at using AI to remove the drudgery of many Office tasks. We don't know when the new capabilities will be available or what they will cost. The demos looked wonderful, but how things work out when exposed to real users is an entirely different manner. Time will tell!
As organizations move to the cloud, on-premises environments (and their security) are put in the background as the focus shifts to the cloud. Nevertheless, most organizations I know are in a hybrid scenario where the on-premises environment holds the master data and synchronizes everything into Azure Active Directory. This blog explores how an on-premises environment is connected to the cloud and how an attacker might move from on-premises to the cloud laterally.
Managing Office updates is one of those thankless tasks, like taking out the recycling, that is sometimes wearisome but contributes to making the world a better place. This article covers how you can keep track of these updates, and what can go wrong if you don't.
My team has recently worked on some projects featuring multi-tenant and multi-Exchange environments. A common requirement for all projects is the ability to share free/busy information across all environments. In this article, I will dive into using free/busy sharing with Exchange/Microsoft 365 in the worldwide cloud. Sharing Free/Busy Information Let’s start with the obvious issues: […]
