Practical Endpoint: Restricting Admin Access to an Endpoint
In this episode of Practical Endpoint, we explain two approaches to restricting Admin rights to corporate devices using Intune and Autopilot.
November 5, 2024
Practical Graph: Analyzing Microsoft 365 Copilot Interactions Using Compliance Records
Every time Microsoft 365 Copilot interacts with a user, the Microsoft 365 substrate captures the Copilot interaction as a compliance record in the user's mailbox. By fetching and analyzing the compliance records, we can understand how the user interacts with Copilot. This article discusses how to retrieve and analyze the records with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
November 4, 2024
Four Practical Tools and Strategies for Success with Conditional Access Policies
Many organizations still find it challenging to implement Conditional Access effectively. Luckily, there is a solution for this. In this blog, we share a new open-source framework, introducing 4 tools to help create and validate access policies and strategies, ensuring that security measures are effective and efficient.
October 30, 2024
Practical Teams Phone: How to Deal with Unassigned Numbers
This installment of Practical Teams Phone covers how to deal with unassigned numbers and how the Teams Administrator can configure the unassigned number feature in the Teams Admin Center (TAC).
October 29, 2024
Practical Graph: How to Use Graph Schema Extensions
Sometimes Microsoft 365 tenants need to store specific data for objects like users and groups. The Graph provides several extensibility options. This article describes how to define and use schema extensions to store information about the container management labels assigned to Microsoft 365 Groups.
October 28, 2024
Practical Protection: The 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report
It's that time of the year again! In this episode of Practical Protection, we review the 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report and offer our recommendations to protect against the emerging and current threat.
October 23, 2024
Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters
In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how to use them within in functions and scripts.
October 22, 2024
Practical Compliance: Using Purge Actions to Remove Mailbox Items
Compliance search purge actions are Microsoft's search and purge tool. Today, a purge action is limited to removing 10 items per mailbox. Microsoft is increasing the limit to 100 as part of its eDiscovery modernization project. This article reviews the state of the art for using PowerShell to purge mailbox items and contemplates how purges might work after modernization finishes.
October 21, 2024
Practical Exchange: Microsoft Update Affects How Wildcards Work with Dynamic Distribution Groups
It's time to check recipient filters for dynamic distribution groups to ensure that you don't have any wildcard prefixes used with the -eq operator to find recipients based on their email addresses. A November 30 update will stop this kind of recipient filter working, and might have a knock-on effect on other processes.
October 18, 2024
Evaluating Privileged Identity Management Effectiveness
This article outlines how to get started with PIM, how to audit its use, and what workarounds could be circumventing your security controls.
October 17, 2024
Practical SharePoint: Intelligent Versioning Rolling Out
The deployment of intelligent versioning to SharePoint Online worldwide is proceeding. Intelligent versioning is all about reducing the amount of storage quota consumed by file edits. It's a great idea, but it has one downside for many Microsoft 365 tenants: retention policies and labels stop SharePoint removing unwanted versions. Read more here, including a script to interpret Microsoft file version data.
October 16, 2024
Microsoft Security Copilot: AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Cybersecurity – The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E29
This week on the Practical 365 podcast, Rich & Steve sit down with Rod Trent, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, to explore the game-changing potential of Microsoft Security Copilot.
October 15, 2024