Cloud.Microsoft Domain Changes, Viva Goals Retirement & Copilot Updates: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E33

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this week's episode, we dive deep into Microsoft's latest announcements and changes that will impact your organization in 2025 and beyond. We examine the reasoning behind the cloud.microsoft domain rollout, what the retirement of Viva Goals means for organizations invested in OKR solutions, and discuss the implications of the forced transition to the new Outlook for Windows by 2026.

• Podcasts

December 20, 2024

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Practical 365 Review of 2024

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

In our 2024 review of Microsoft 365, we consider some of the major technical advances that occured in Microsoft's cloud ecosystem in 2024 together with some upcoming changes that have the potential to affect tenant operations. As always, our choice of what's important and what's not might not match yours, so feel free to comment and voice your opinion.

• Microsoft 365

December 19, 2024

Practical Graph: Understanding What Happens When the Connect-MgGraph Cmdlet Runs

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

This article describes what happens when the Connect-MgGraph cmdlet runs in interactive and app-only sessions with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. A session is created and a context is established, and it's possible to use the session context to do real work.

• Microsoft Graph

December 18, 2024

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Automating the Distribution of Microsoft 365 Updates

• Post author:By Karin Skapski

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Power Automate Flow to create a workflow that sends a weekly digest email of Microsoft 365 Roadmap updates.

• Blog

December 17, 2024

Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Given the widespread use of guest accounts within Microsoft 365 to allow external sharing of resources, it’s almost inevitable that some unused guest accounts exist in any Microsoft 365 tenant. Identifying unused guest accounts is a good management practice. If the accounts serve no purpose, why keep them? This article explores how to find unused guest accounts. What you do with them later is up to you.

• Entra ID

December 16, 2024

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Practical Protection: The Great “Connected Experiences” Panic of 2024

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

This episode of Practical Protection dives into connected experiences, what they are, and debunks some claims that were made regarding AI models using customer data via Connected Experiences.

• Security

December 11, 2024

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Practical Copilot: Figuring Out What People Do with Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft has a new allInteractionHistory Graph API in beta. The API returns details of user interactions with Microsoft 365 Copilot apps, like Copilot in Word and Copilot in Outlook at a much more detailed level than what is available in the usage report API. Despite the current flaws in the API, having access to detailed information about how people use technology is incredibly valuable.

• Copilot

December 10, 2024

Practical Sentinel: Operationalizing Health Monitoring

• Post author:By Thijs Lecomte

Like all cloud services, Microsoft Sentinel can fail from time to time. In this blog, we dive into how to find and fix these issues using the Microsoft Sentinel Health feature, which enables monitoring for analytic rules, automation rules, and data connectors.

• Sentinel

December 9, 2024

How to Use Redirects to Minimize Disruption When Moving SharePoint Sites

• Post author:By James Yip

Minimizing disruption is key to any migration. In this blog, we discuss migrating SharePoint sites and data to SharePoint Online, reviewing common issues, and offering a few different approaches to reduce friction.

• SharePoint Online

December 5, 2024

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Microsoft Places, Teams Features and Copilot Confusion: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E32

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this Episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Paul and Steve explore Microsoft's ever-expanding Copilot strategy, debate the complexities of Microsoft Places licensing, and discuss whether every AI feature really needs Copilot branding.

• Blog

December 4, 2024

Practical Copilot: Stop Microsoft 365 Chat Accessing the Content of Confidential Documents

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

You can't prevent Microsoft 365 Chat finding documents based on searches against Microsoft 365 Search and the semantic index. But you can stop Copilot from using the content of sensitive documents in its summaries and generated text. This article explains how the different ways to block Copilot in Microsoft 365 work.

• Copilot

December 3, 2024

Practical PnP: Managing Site Permissions

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

Permissions are central to SharePoint Online and it’s important to be able to manage site permissions effectively. In this episode of Practical PnP, we deep dive into site permissions, providing practical examples and use cases that you can apply to your environment.

• Blog

December 2, 2024