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Using PowerShell to Generate a Report About Sensitivity Label Settings

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

You can manage sensitivity label settings through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, but it's hard to see all the settings for labels in a consumable manner. This article describes how to use PowerShell to extract and report sensitivity label settings, including highlighting rights assignments that might be out of date. It's an example of just how useful PowerShell is to Microsoft 365 administrators.

• Microsoft 365

February 27, 2023

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Practical Protection: Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hybrid

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

Hybrid work is really a mixed blessing—while it offers a lot of fantastic benefits for people who are able to take advantage of it, it can introduce some new and unpleasant security issues that you need to be prepared to deal with. This article dives into these new risks and how you can avoid them.

• Azure Active Directory

February 23, 2023

The Prospect of Wiper Malware Attacks Against Microsoft 365 Tenants

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft 365 Wiper malware is a category of threat where attackers penetrate a tenant and remove data. In this article, we discuss if Microsoft 365 Wiper malware could remove all the files from SharePoint Online sites and what actions tenant administrators can take to defend against the apps that might wreak such havoc.

• SharePoint Online

February 22, 2023

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Migrating Passwords Without Using RC4 Encryption

• Post author:By Joe Sharmer

During migrations, one of the most asked for features is to synchronize a user’s password between the source and target environment. In this article, Joe Sharmer discusses a few methods for migrating passwords without RC4 Encryption.

• Active Directory

February 21, 2023

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Five Things Microsoft 365 Security Administrators Should Do in 2023

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft 365 security is a big topic. Focus is important when it comes to getting things done. In this article, we suggest five areas that administrators could work on during 2023 to improve the security posture of their tenant. You might already have established full control over some of these areas. Even if you have, it's still good to consider if you can improve security.

• Azure Active Directory

February 20, 2023

OpenAI in Microsoft 365 & Bing, Yammer is dead; Exchange Security issues – plus great Intune and Teams new features: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E21

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

Join us for this week's Practical 365 Podcast, where we talk AI, the Death of Yammer, Exchange Security issues, and long-awaited features that are coming soon to teams!

• Podcasts

February 15, 2023

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Practical Graph: Using Dynamic Entra ID Administrative Units

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Dynamic Azure AD administrative units are like dynamic Azure AD groups in that they have a membership rule to calculate their membership. Azure AD uses the rule to find members regularly, so the administrative unit never goes out of date. That is, assuming the properties of Azure AD user accounts are maintained and up to date.

• Azure Active Directory

February 14, 2023

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Using Authentication Context with Azure AD Conditional Access Policies to Secure Access to Sensitive SharePoint Content

• Post author:By James Yip

Today, conditional access policies can restrict access to Microsoft 365 workloads but not to specific objects within a workload, such as individual mailboxes or SharePoint sites. In this article, James Yip explores using Authentication Context with conditional access polices to secure access to sensitive SharePoint content.

• Azure Active Directory

February 13, 2023

The Great Microsoft 365 Meltdown of January 2023 Is Just Another Outage

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Many commentators got very exercised about the Microsoft 365 outage of 25 January 2023. The root cause was an untested configuration change to a WAN router which shouldn't have happened, but that's no reason to conclude that cloud services are flawed.

• Microsoft 365

February 9, 2023

Practical Protection: And Now for Something Completely Different

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

Practical 365 is very focused on discussing management and administration of Microsoft 365 environments. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux pivots away from Microsoft and looks at another ecosystem that you might have in your network: VMware’s ESXi.

• Blog

February 8, 2023

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Dipping your toes in Microsoft Sentinel Automation

• Post author:By Thijs Lecomte

Automation is a big part of Sentinel, as it helps security administrators fight the spew of alerts generated by the different security solutions. In this article, we dive into some common use cases for automation and how to utilize Playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel.

• Microsoft 365

February 7, 2023

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Practical Graph: Deal with Common Errors when Running Graph Commands with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

It's great to be able to run Graph API requests in PowerShell scripts if everything goes right. This article describes why some common Graph API errors occur in scripts and what to do when the errors happen. Most errors are due to permissions assigned to the Azure AD apps used to run scripts and getting the basics will resolve those problems.

• Microsoft Graph

February 6, 2023