Microsoft 365 Keeps On Changing
Ready or not, here Copilot comes! With that said, it's time to start thinking of the practical security aspects of these deployments. And that's exactly what's discussed in this edition of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux.
In this article, Ingo Gegenwarth shows you how to develop an interface for end-users using Microsoft PowerApps for interacting and rendering data from Exchange Online.
Room mailboxes are a well-known part of Exchange Online. With a little planning, it's easy to add automated bookings for room mailboxes. In this example, we create a room mailbox and configure it to allow salespeople to book customer meetings during a conference.
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.
