Microsoft 365 Throttling Stinks
Based on his recent TEC talk session, Paul Robichaux explains what throttling is, how it works, and how to avoid it!
Based on his recent TEC talk session, Paul Robichaux explains what throttling is, how it works, and how to avoid it!
In this article, Damian Scoles reviews 10 PowerShell tips to help Microsoft 365 administrators automate daily management tasks. Be on the lookout for the second part to this mini series!
Everyone likes reports. Well, here's a PowerShell script to create a report of Exchange Online mailbox content. The script uses the Graph API to list every item more than a year old (you can remove the filter if you like) and creates an Excel workbook containing the data. What you do with the information afterwards is up to you!
The bad news is that Exchange Server has two more day-zero vulnerabilities to cope with. The good is that Microsoft has figured out some mitigations. The ongoing problem remains that attackers like to go after Exchange Server because so many servers are in a poor state of maintenance.
What happened at TEC & MEC? Paul gives us the low-down First up this week, Paul and I chat about TEC – and how valuable it was to attend for him; and we contrast that to Microsoft conferences like Ignite. Paul talks about how TEC provides deep, real-world expertise and having expanded from technologies like […]
A Unified Approach to Microsoft 365 management The Microsoft Graph API has been around for some time now and Microsoft is moving more management functions (such as License Management for Azure AD Accounts) to the platform. When Microsoft transitions a function to the Graph, organizations might have to update PowerShell scripts. Getting started with the […]
Tips and Techniques to Avoid Common Issues In a previous post, I discussed how to leverage the Microsoft Tunnel solution to control access to your Microsoft 365 environment. In this article, I discuss deploying the Microsoft Tunnel VPN gateway in an enterprise environment. Basic Deployment The basic steps to deploy the Microsoft Tunnel VPN gateway […]
Outlook mobile is Microsoft's preferred option for a mobile email client for Exchange Online. However, many still use Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)-based clients like the native iOS mail app. What's the best choice? :Like many things, it all depemds/
A report by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research team explained how attackers compromised admin accounts in a Microsoft 365 tenant. They then created a malicious OAuth app, granted the app some high-priority permissions, and used it to update the Exchange Online configuration to allow spam traffic to flow. All of this comes down to allowing attackers to compromise admin accounts.
At the TEC 2022 conference, Alex Weinert, Microsoft VP for Identity, outlined the need to deploy Azure AD MFA to protect accounts in Microsoft 365 tenants. Only 26.64% of all Azure AD accounts use MFA today, and while that percentage has grown from 1.8% in 2018, it's still disappointing.
A brief recap of Andy Robbins TEC session on Azure Managed Identities, discussing what they are, their challenges, and should you avoid them?
Control Your Configuration as Migrations Unfold It can be quite a challenge to maintain workload configurations in a Microsoft 365 tenant. Small to medium size organizations might have administrators responsible for the management of the entire tenant. Large enterprise organizations might assign different people to manage different workloads. All share a common responsibility of keeping […]