Graph Application Permissions Make it Easier to Report Plans
In the show this week, Paul and Steve discuss a cyber attack reported against Azure AD Connect that inflicted a vast amount of damage to a business, Snapchat filters in Teams, two new changes to the Graph API and Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android, and more!
Microsoft actively develops Azure AD external identities and doesn't do much with mail contacts. Maybe it's a good idea to migrate mail contacts to Azure AD guest accounts. This article explores what's involved in moving mail contacts over to Azure AD guest accounts using PowerShell.
In this edition of our series on the "Top 5 Best Practices for Exchange Online Domain Transfers," we delve deeper into the importance of validating your plan prior to implementation. Implementing a well-tested and practiced process will help prevent mistakes and encountering unknowns during the migration. Join us as we explore the key considerations for a successful validation phase.
A writeup about the MERCURY attack by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team reveals how a nation state actor linked to the Iranian government compromised an Azure AD tenant by using the AADConnect tool. In this article, we discuss how the attack developed and what you can do to prevent the same attack techniques being used against your tenant.
In this edition of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux, we dive into understanding what multi-tenant applications are, what they can do, and how to manage them in order to keep your tenant and users safe.
PowerShell is an important tool for any Microsoft 365 Admin – particularly in larger environments. In this article, Sean McAvinue outlines some key tools and concepts to help tenant admins build a ‘toolbox’ for PowerShell to make almost any scripting task easier and more robust.
Microsoft 365 auditing makes lots of data available to administrators to help them understand what happens in a tenant. When attackers try to compromise accounts, they can leave fingerprints behind in audit data. Being aware of what you might find in the data helps suppress BEC attacks.
Are you looking to add some extra security to your small organization? Microsoft Defender for Business may be the right fit. Learn more about the capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Business and how it compares to other Microsoft Defender Plans.
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.
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.
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 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.
