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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.
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Microsoft 365 tenants can assign colors to the sensitivity labels used to mark files and messages. However, the set of colors chosen by Microsoft is frankly a bit weird. You can use PowerShell to assign different colors to labels and in this article, we show you how to use a traffic light color scheme.
This article discusses the four main steps to mitigate a zero-day threat Using Microsoft 365 Defender and Sentinel.
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 and compares it to the Send-MgUserMessage cmdlet (covered in depth in a previous article). Our conclusion is that you'll probably end up using Send0-MgUserMail because it's easier to use.
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
Kusto Query Language, or KQL for short, is omnipresent in the Microsoft world and is used in different product stacks. Like any language, KQL can be challenging to understand and know where to start. This article is intended to help newcomers to get started.
TEC is back -100% Virtual & Free - December 6-7! This article recaps the recent in-person TEC event and what to expect from virtual TEC.
In this week's Podcast, Paul and Steve discuss Microsoft Syntex, how everyone wants Exchange Server to die, the Metaverse, and much more!
A Wired article calls Exchange Server a security liability and it's hard to argue the case that the assertion is incorrect. Too many vulnerabilities, too many attacks, and an architecture that's creaking at the seams means that Exchange on-premises is at the end of its days.
We’ve developed a framework to guide a Power BI migration from one tenant to another. This blog provides a brief overview of the framework.
Every month, Microsoft generates a new version of the Graph PowerShell SDK. And if you use the SDK with Azure Automation, you must update automation accounts with the new modules. That's a pain to do manually, but easy to automate with PowerShell as we explain here.
This article is a recap of Bryan Patton's and Joe Sharmer's TEC session. This session focused on key challenges facing today’s Active Directory administrators during consolidation and divestiture projects.
