Places, Outlook Classic, and Teams Rooms Upgrades: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E23

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

Microsoft Places preview, Outlook Classic rebrand, and AI upgrades for Teams Rooms highlight this week's Practical 365 podcast. We discuss the potential impact of Places in the hybrid work landscape, the implications of Outlook's renaming, and how AI-powered speaker recognition is enhancing Teams meetings. Plus, we cover key Microsoft 365 roadmap items, including automatic work location settings in Teams and new Copilot features coming later this year.

• Blog

July 18, 2024

All You Need to Know About the Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway

• Post author:By Thorsten Pickhan

Microsoft Teams SIP gateway is an option to connect native SIP devices to the Microsoft Teams platform. In this blog, we review the SIP gateway and discuss some usage scenarios.

• Teams

July 17, 2024

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Practical Graph: Using GitHub Copilot for Microsoft 365 PowerShell Development

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

GitHub Copilot costs $10/month. At that price level, anyone working with PowerShell should try out the AI assistance to see if it helps. But will GitHub Copilot work well with Microsoft 365 PowerShell modules like Exchange Online and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. That's what we tested and report on here.

• PowerShell

July 16, 2024

Practical Sentinel: Adding Networking Data to Microsoft Sentinel

• Post author:By Thijs Lecomte

Are you looking to ingest your data into Sentinel? In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we review use cases and tips for ingesting networking data into Sentinel.

• Blog

July 15, 2024

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Practical Graph: Assign Sensitivity Labels to SharePoint Online Files

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft released Graph APIs to read and assign sensitivity labels in 2023. At the time, it was difficult to work with the assignSensitivityLabel API. Now it's easier, and this article explains how to use PowerShell with the API to assign labels to files in a SharePoint Online document library.

• PowerShell

July 10, 2024

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Welcome to Practical SharePoint

• Post author:By Liam Cleary

Welcome to Practical SharePoint! This episode is the first of a series aimed to help SharePoint administrators enhance their skills in managing SharePoint Online.

• Blog

July 9, 2024

Practical Protection: Baseline Office App Security with the Cloud Policy Service

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

Unless you have been around the Microsoft security world for a while, you might not be familiar with Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS). In this blog, we review what OCPS is and what setting you should apply in your tenant.

• Blog

July 8, 2024

Practical PowerShell: Error Handling

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

When coding in PowerShell, you should anticipate issues. How you deal with these issues is another story. In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into Error Handling.

• PowerShell

July 3, 2024

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TEC Tips: Email Protection Basics

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

Email is a primary target for breaches, making it crucial to have a strong line of defense for your email security. In this blog, we go over some Email Protection basics to help keep your organization safe.

• Security

July 2, 2024

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Practical Graph: Microsoft Launches Entra PowerShell Module

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

On June 27, 2024, Microsoft launched the preview of the Entra PowerShell module. Built on top of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, the new module helps organizations that still have PowerShell scripts based on the now-deprecated AzureAD and AzureADPreview modules. If you're in that situation, the Entra module might help. But I recommend using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK instead.

• PowerShell

July 1, 2024

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TEC 2024 PowerShell Script-Off

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

TEC 2024 in Dallas (October 1-2) will once again feature the TEC PowerShell Script-Off where coders attempt to come up with the best solutions for challenges set by the judges. The challenges are all Microsoft 365 scenarios (Exchange Online, Entra ID, Teams, and SharePoint Online), so there's nothing unknown about what we'll ask people to code. Come along to TEC 2024 and compete to be the best coder in town!

• PowerShell

June 28, 2024

Microsoft’s Security Stumble and AD Modernization Insights: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E22

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

On the Practical 365 podcast this week, Rich and Steve are joined by Quest Software's Julian Stephan to discuss Active Directory Modernization & Microsoft's role in the SolarWinds hack.

• Blog

June 27, 2024