New Teams in Preview, Loop App & Avatars, AI and more: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E24

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

On the show this week, we talk about a new report from Goldman Sachs on how Generative AI could affect 300 million jobs - and with Microsoft 365 Copilot on the front line, we consider how likely this is. And finally - Microsoft Teams "V2" - the new Teams has began appearing in Microsoft 365 tenants. Plus, you can replace your face with an Avatar, use the preview of the Loop App - and Windows 11 might be appearing on your Teams Rooms devices very soon.

• Blog

March 30, 2023

Microsoft Launches Security Copilot

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft's announcement of Security Copilot is more interesting in some respects than Microsoft 365 Copilot because it promises to help organizations defend themselves better. Of course, we don't know much yet about how Security Copilot will work in the real world, but if Microsoft delivers what it says, Security Copilot could be quite a tool in the battle against the bad guys.

• Blog

March 30, 2023

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Practical Issues Around the Implementation of Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Copilot for Microsoft 365 generated a lot of media hype after its March 16 announcement. In this article, we contemplate some of the implementation issues that need to be teased out before Copilot for Microsoft 365 deployments start.

• Microsoft 365

March 29, 2023

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Using the Loop App

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft released the preview version of the Loop app on March 22. The app works well for collaboration with people from the same Microsoft 365 tenant but fails utterly once external people are involved. Some other teething problems are evident, but there's enough in the Loop app for people to make their minds up if this will make collaboration smarter within their organization.

• Microsoft 365

March 27, 2023

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Microsoft’s Grand Plan to Force Upgrades of Unsupported Exchange Servers

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft announced that Exchange Online will block old Exchange Servers by throttling and then rejecting their inbound email into Exchange Online. The hope is that this tactic will convince those who operate unsupported versions of Exchange Server to upgrade and use supported software that isn't vulnerable to known attack vectors.

• Exchange Server

March 23, 2023

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Practical Protection: Entra ID Conditional Access – Location, Location, Location 

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

Conditional Access policies are one of Microsoft's most versatile and flexible security features ever built. However, there’s one area that Conditional Access can help you protect that isn’t as well known—using IP restrictions to control where a specific app can be used. 

• Blog

March 23, 2023

Source Control for Microsoft 365 Tenant Admins: Part III

• Post author:By Andy Schneider

In the third and final article in a series covering Git-based Source Control for Microsoft 365 Tenant Admins, Andy Schnieder covers how to leverage tools to streamline your workflow with Git and gain insight into some useful advanced techniques.

• Microsoft 365

March 21, 2023

Urgent Security Patches for Exchange and Outlook, Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot, Authenticator Lite, and more: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E23

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this week's show, Steve and Paul discuss Microsoft 365 Copilot. Not a sat-nav for your car, powered by the Microsoft Cloud, but an AI assistant that can help people with their daily tasks using OpenAI technologies. And nearly an episode doesn't go by without Exchange patches - but this time the Outlook issues could be pretty serious, so make sure you take a listen. Talking of Outlook - authenticator comes to mobile Outlook - is it a good thing? Plus much more..

• Podcasts

March 20, 2023

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Microsoft Launches Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

On March 16, Microsoft launched its latest AI-powered innovation in Microsoft 365 CoPilot, aimed at using AI to remove the drudgery of many Office tasks. We don't know when the new capabilities will be available or what they will cost. The demos looked wonderful, but how things work out when exposed to real users is an entirely different manner. Time will tell!

• Microsoft 365

March 17, 2023

Join Tony, Steve, and More Experts at the TEC European Roadshow in April! 

• Post author:By Jennifer LuPiba

The best hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft 365 security experts are going on the road to bring our European friends a taste of The Experts Conference (TEC). Join us in London (17 April), Paris (19 April), and Frankfurt (21 April) for unmatched advice from experts such as Tony Redmond, Steve Goodman, and more!

• Blog

March 16, 2023

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Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Leaks Credentials via NTLM

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Among the latest set of patches released by Microsoft, a fix for CVE-2023-23397 is available to fix an NTLM vulnerability in Outlook for Windows clients. The update closes a hole where attackers can use specially formatted messages to force NTLM credentials to be sent outside the organization.

• Exchange Server

March 15, 2023

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Why Microsoft 365 License Assignment Dates Can Be Misleading

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft 365 tenant administrators might want to know when user accounts receive a specific license. Unhappily, Azure AD license assignment dates can mislead, so some interpretation and personal knowledge might be needed to find out just when a user was licensed.

• Azure Active Directory

March 14, 2023