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: […]
You can manage sensitivity label settings through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, but it's hard to see all the settings for labels in a consumable manner. This article describes how to use PowerShell to extract and report sensitivity label settings, including highlighting rights assignments that might be out of date. It's an example of just how useful PowerShell is to Microsoft 365 administrators.
Hybrid work is really a mixed blessing—while it offers a lot of fantastic benefits for people who are able to take advantage of it, it can introduce some new and unpleasant security issues that you need to be prepared to deal with. This article dives into these new risks and how you can avoid them.
Microsoft 365 Wiper malware is a category of threat where attackers penetrate a tenant and remove data. In this article, we discuss if Microsoft 365 Wiper malware could remove all the files from SharePoint Online sites and what actions tenant administrators can take to defend against the apps that might wreak such havoc.
Microsoft 365 security is a big topic. Focus is important when it comes to getting things done. In this article, we suggest five areas that administrators could work on during 2023 to improve the security posture of their tenant. You might already have established full control over some of these areas. Even if you have, it's still good to consider if you can improve security.
Many commentators got very exercised about the Microsoft 365 outage of 25 January 2023. The root cause was an untested configuration change to a WAN router which shouldn't have happened, but that's no reason to conclude that cloud services are flawed.
Automation is a big part of Sentinel, as it helps security administrators fight the spew of alerts generated by the different security solutions. In this article, we dive into some common use cases for automation and how to utilize Playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel.
With an increase in ads being used to deliver malware, there is now a practical reason to consider blocking ads on your corporate network. Paul Robichaux offers 4 solutions to protecting your org from these pesty attacks.
This is the second article in a series of articles on Source Control for Microsoft 365 Tenant Admins. In this article, Andy Schneider explains how to use Git's capabilities and processes to easily collaborate and co-develop code.
In early December 2022, Rackspace had a major breach in their exchange environment that led to customers' mail data being stolen. This article explains what happened and what can be learned from this incident.
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.
