Practical Protection: Demystifying Defender
This week on Practical Protection, Paul dives into Microsoft's Defender umbrella brand of products and how they can help protect your tenant.
November 16, 2022
Microsoft Enters the Backup Business with a New Syntex Service
Microsoft plans to deliver a new Pay As You Go backup and restore service as part of their Syntex content management suite. It's a big change for Microsoft because they've never delivered backup and restore services for Microsoft 365 before.
November 15, 2022
Group Policy as an Attack Pathway
Learn some of the main group policy attack pathways, why they are easily exploited, and how to mitigate them in this article by Darryl Baker.
November 14, 2022
Detecting and Protecting Azure AD from Password Spray Attacks
In this article, Thijs Lecomte walks through various protection and detection mechanisms available to repel password spray attacks.
November 10, 2022
How to use Microsoft Teams Event Streaming: 2022 Guide
In this article, Steve Goodman shows how to use Microsoft Teams to stream live events and recording videos for post-production.
November 9, 2022
Native Cross-Tenant Migrations, Exchange 2019 upgrades, New Teams client & Azure AD: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E14
This week on the practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Paul are joined by Sigi Jaggot to discuss upgrading On-premises servers to Exchange 2019.
November 8, 2022
Five ways to Keep Active Directory Secure
Although we live and work in a cloud-first world, on-premises Active Directory (AD) remains a vital component of many companies IT infrastructure. This article goes over five ways to keep Active Directory secure.
November 7, 2022
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Giving Sensitivity Labels a Splash of Color
Microsoft allows tenants to assign colors to highlight the relative importance of sensitivity labels. Unhappily, they've chosen some odd colors.
November 3, 2022
How to Use Microsoft 365 Defender and Sentinel to Defend Against Zero Day Threats: Part I
This article discusses the four main steps to mitigate a zero-day threat Using Microsoft 365 Defender and Sentinel.
November 2, 2022
The Many Ways to Send Email via the Microsoft Graph
For those wanting to eliminate the SMTP AUTH protocol, Microsoft has three ways to send email using Graph APIs. This article looks at how to use the Send-MgUserMail cmdlet.
November 1, 2022
Practical Protection: Fernando Corbató’s Nightmare Legacy
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
October 31, 2022
Using KQL to Master Sentinel Data
This article is intended to help newcomers to get started with KQL by explaining what it is and how to use it in Microsoft Sentinel.
October 27, 2022