Practical Protection: Banning Bad Passwords
In this installment of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux Talks about Password Banning in your Entra ID Tenant and why everyone should implement this extra layer of protection.
In this installment of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux Talks about Password Banning in your Entra ID Tenant and why everyone should implement this extra layer of protection.
Security is not a one-time thing. We must improve configurations as products evolve and new situations arise. In this blog, James Yip dives into his top five security topics for Microsoft 365 Projects.
Most think that the safe senders list does not override the anti-spam policies configured in Exchange Online, but the opposite is true. In this blog, we discuss how this happens and how to fix it with PowerShell.
License assignment to Entra ID accounts with PowerShell is easy if licenses are available and the account doesn't already have the license. In this article, we explore how to check license availability and make sure that we don't try to assign a license that's already present.
On the show this week, Steve, Paul and Rich are joined by Microsoft's VP Director of Identity Security, Alex Weinert, to discuss almost all things related to securing identities. We hear about what happened behind the scenes during Storm-0558, and we discuss essential steps to protect Microsoft 365. And we discuss the latest news in the world of Microsoft 365 - in particular we discuss the new Teams 2.1 client that recently became GA, and for those still running on-premises or Hybrid Exchange Servers, it is time to get patching.
While most organizations operate a single Microsoft 365 tenant, there are cases where multiple tenants need to work very closely together. In this article, Sean McAvinue explains five ways to make the cross-tenant collaboration experience easier for end users and when to use each.
Microsoft 365 user accounts have user principal names (for sign in) and primary SMTP addresses (to receive email). Is it a good idea to reuse user principal names or SMTP addresses that become available when an employee leaves the organization. It might seem like a good idea, but it's really not and should be avoided. We explain why here.
You might think that maintaining scripts and processes utilizing PowerShell is a lot of work. And truth be told, it can be. In this blog, Michel De Rooij dives into some practical tips to stay on top of your scripts.
It's that time of the year again! Microsoft is releasing their annual Microsoft Digital Defense Report (MDDR), and you may want to give it a read. In this blog, we talk about the highlights from the MDDR and offer some advice to better protect your organization.
In this blog, Jaap Wesselius covers how to manage Exchange 2019 Send and Receive Connectors, including moving to new versions of Exchange.
In this article, Thijs Lecomte discusses how to identify malicious emails using Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
Group-based licensing is a simple way to automate the distribution of licenses to members of security groups. In this article, we review how the mechanism works and show how to automate operations with PowerShell. Finally, we update the tenant licensing report to include group-based licensing and to highlight duplicate license assignments.