Security researchers report that Teams stores the access token it uses in clear text on user workstations. Is this an issue? Well, it's not good, but it's probably not going to lead to many compromised workstations.
The Teams external access configuration includes an allow list that defines which Microsoft 365 tenants are allowed to collaborate with your users through chats and meetings. To make sure that your allow list is complete, we can check the guest accounts present in the tenant and update the configuration with the domains used by guests. All in a matter of some straightforward PowerShell code.
The GIFShell attack describes how attackers can penetrate Teams to run commands using special GIFs, including the ability to exfiltrate data. One practical and quick way to stop similar attacks is to limit the set of Teams organizations your tenant will communicate with by establishing an allow list for external access.
In this week's show, Paul and Steve discuss the new Apple Silicon version of Teams: It was here, now it isn't - why? Exchange Server receives security updates; with Facebook getting a bashing for their Metaverse contributions, will Mesh for Microsoft Teams ever see the light of day; and Exchange Online changes that might affect software you use. Plus - Sean McAvinue and Jason Jacobo join us to help answer the question - what did you leave behind in your migration?
Microsoft launched Intelligent Cameras for Teams, but move away from a Microsoft-delivered solution to third-party vendors. We examine why this is a flawed solution is unhelpful to Microsoft customers.
In episode 3 of season two, Paul Robichaux and Steve Goodman chat about a flurry of new Microsoft Teams features - including the long-awaited Teams Connect shared channels going into general availability, plus Microsoft's headline conference for IT professionals is back in-person - but will it be the same?
Microsoft's announcement of Viva Engage might just be the thing that gives Yammer a boost and creates a new role for the much-maligned technology inside Microsoft 365.
Missed Commsverse and need a recap? Steve and Paul have you covered in the latest Practical 365 Podcast. They also discuss PowerApps for Figma, the latest Teams features, the Updates App in Teams, Microsoft Inspire, and other roadmap updates! Take a listen!
Some Microsoft 365 tenants have received notes about a data leak for Teams usage data. The leak isn't particularly serious, and at least it proves the notification system works.
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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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.
Every large tenant to tenant (T2T) migration faces daunting challenges when it comes to Microsoft Teams private chat migrations. The primary challenges are around throughput performance and content fidelity. This post will outline the difficulties you will likely face in your Teams migration project for private chats so you can prepare your project plan accordingly.
