Task Publishing in Teams
As is the norm for any Microsoft conference, the Microsoft Ignite 2023 announcements came thick and fast. Most of the announcements featured a heavy emphasis on some form of Copilot. Quite how useful all this AI-powered assistance will be in real life remains to be seen. Here's the Practical365 take on the important Microsoft 365 announcements at Ignite.
On the show this week, we talk about Microsoft Ignite 2023, US Government's new AI rules, and we're joined by special guest and cybersecurity expert, Alex Crowther.
A key aspect of a well-managed Microsoft 365 environment is to ensure that SharePoint sites are removed when they are no longer needed. In this blog, Sean McAvinue explores how to combine relatively basic PowerShell and Azure Automation skills with Power Automate to create a clean, robust way to manage the lifecycle of SharePoint sites in your Microsoft 365 tenant.
Directory extensions allow organizations to customize the data stored for Entra ID objects such as users, groups, and devices, You need to create and manage directory extensions with PowerShell. This article explains how to do the job with cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
This edition of Practical Protection is all about theory and playing games. In this blog, Paul Robichaux explains how to improve your security posture by setting up hypothetical scenarios in your environment.
Shared mailboxes are widely used in Exchange and their permissions are relatively simple to set and manage. In this blog, Jaap Wesselius deep dives into understanding Exchange shared mailbox permissions and walks you through how to grant permissions in different Exchange environments.
A Teams external access whitelist controls the domains that users can connect to for federated chats. Organizations often limit federation using a whitelist to reduce the possibility of attacks through chat communications. This article explains how administrators can discover the set of domains users chat with by analyzing chat information using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
The Storm-0558 incident serves as a stark reminder of the potential threats that organizations face in today's digital landscape. In this blog, Rich Dean recaps the insider conversation around Storm-0558 that the Practical 365 Podcast team had with Alex Weinert, Microsoft's VP for Identity Security.
In this blog, Paul Robichaux reviews how to add additional protection to Microsoft Admin Portal Apps through MFA.
In this blog, Steve Goodman gives his first impressions of Microsoft 365 Copilot based on what was shown at Microsoft's Envision Conference in London.
Join us for a thrilling Halloween special of the Practical 365 podcast with special guest Sean Metcalf, CTO of Trimarc. In this Episode, we'll explore the eerie changes in Windows 11 as it seeks to banish NTLM, navigate through common Active Directory misconfigurations, and delve deeper into the practical aspects of managing Active Directory configurations and so much more.
Despite making a commitment to generate MailItemsAccessed events for customers with Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) licenses in July 2023, Microsoft won't ship the necessary updates until June 2024.
