If You’re Serious About Compliance, You Need Office 365 E5
Organizations have lots of choice about what Office 365 licenses to buy, but Office 365 E5 is best for Microsoft 365 compliance and data governance
May 3, 2022
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Microsoft 365 License Management for Azure AD Accounts with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
Many have scripts to manage Microsoft 365 licenses built using the old MSOL and Azure AD modules. We show how to manage licenses using Graph SDK cmdlets
April 13, 2022
Building Exchange 2019 Lab Environments
Exchange Server on-premises organizations need somewhere to test scenarios for updating, testing configurations, and running occasional “what-if” testing. This article provides guidance on notable alternatives for delivering suitable Exchange 2019 lab environments - without breaking the bank.
March 30, 2022
Creating New Microsoft 365 Accounts with PowerShell
In this article, we explain how to create new Microsoft 365 accounts with PowerShell using the Azure AD and Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
March 21, 2022
Creating Files in SharePoint Online Using Azure Automation and PowerShell
In this article, we describe how to create files in SharePoint Online using PowerShell running in an Azure Automation runbook.
March 15, 2022
Protecting Administrator Mailboxes from Phishing and Other Threats
This article describes how to use Exchange transport rules to protect administrator mailboxes from malware and phishing attempts.
March 7, 2022
Ten Ways to Harden the Security of Your Microsoft 365 Tenant – Part 2
Over the years, the Microsoft security stack has become very feature rich and offers many ways to customize the configuration. Third-party products are available with similar features, but lack the integration capability of the Microsoft stack. In the second part of the "Ten Ways to Harden the Security of Your Microsoft 365 Tenant" series, we look at five ways to secure your environment using controls that require a premium license such as Office E5 or Azure AD Premium.
March 2, 2022
Use Azure Front Door to Leverage Microsoft’s Global Network for Exchange
With Azure Front Door, you can reduce the strain on Exchange through caching, content compression, and by filtering out malicious bots before traffic even hits the on-premises network. In this article, we demonstrate how you can use Front Door to reduce your Exchange Server load, increase OWA Client performance and provide Microsoft managed certificates.
March 1, 2022
Using the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell with Azure Automation
The Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell is a good way to execute Microsoft Graph API queries from PowerShell scripts. In this article, we explain how to use the SDK with Azure Automation.
February 28, 2022
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Microsoft Office 365 Podcast
The Practical 365 Update – Episode 37: Teams Dev with MVP Tom Morgan, plus Breakout Rooms news, Teams 2.0 release date speculation and much more
On this week's show, Paul and Steve are joined by Microsoft MVP Tom Morgan to discuss Teams Development. As an IT Pro, find out why it's worth expanding your skillset - plus we've all the latest news in the world of Microsoft 365 as always.
February 22, 2022
Threat Explorer and Investigations: Useful Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Features
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (plan 2) contains the Threat Explorer feature. It's a useful way to investigate problematic messages which arrive in a tenant.
February 21, 2022
Why Using App Secrets in Production is a Bad Idea
As many organizations adapt legacy scripts to use app authentication instead of traditional service account credentials, security can be compromised if certain risks are overlooked. While app secrets can be great for testing code, there’s a reason they have an enforced expiry date - the longer a secret exists in production, the higher the risk it will become compromised. The methods described in this article will help build a good foundation for app authentication while keeping security top of mind when creating or updating automation scripts.
February 16, 2022