Adaptive retention policies are great, but they require high-end Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licenses. The solution is to build your own version using PowerShell and Azure Automation. The code is reasonably straightforward and is a practical example of how to replicate a Microsoft 365 feature in your own way.
Windows 365 is Microsoft’s version of the Cloud PC, and although the term “Cloud PC” is relatively new, Desktop Virtualisation has been around for nearly two decades and doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon. This article will review use cases and some of the key benefits of Cloud PCs.
Azure AD and Exchange Online store information about user principal names and email addresses, but they don't store the domain name of an account. In this article, we explain how to use a custom attribute to store the domain name and then use that with an adaptive scope in a Microsoft 365 retention policy.
In this article, Julian Stephan reviews the most common user experience scenarios to consider in your tenant-to-tenant migration planning and how to add in the adoption of security and productivity features.
This article continues the discussion of the main steps needed to mitigate a zero-day threat Using Microsoft 365 Defender and Sentinel.
A thorough understanding of what Defender for Office 365 can do is important as you consider how best to protect your tenant. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul deep dives into the umbrella brand of Microsoft Defender and its individual products.
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Microsoft 365 tenants can assign colors to the sensitivity labels used to mark files and messages. However, the set of colors chosen by Microsoft is frankly a bit weird. You can use PowerShell to assign different colors to labels and in this article, we show you how to use a traffic light color scheme.
This article discusses the four main steps to mitigate a zero-day threat Using Microsoft 365 Defender and Sentinel.
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
Kusto Query Language, or KQL for short, is omnipresent in the Microsoft world and is used in different product stacks. Like any language, KQL can be challenging to understand and know where to start. This article is intended to help newcomers to get started.
TEC is back -100% Virtual & Free - December 6-7! This article recaps the recent in-person TEC event and what to expect from virtual TEC.
Welcome to the first installment of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux. Paul illustrates four general security principles and talks about how you can practically apply them to your Exchange environment.
