Make Sure Your Implementation of Autodiscover Avoids Common Pitfalls
This article explains the importance of deploying Autodiscover correctly to ensure that all of Microsoft 365 works, including Exchange Online.
This article explains the importance of deploying Autodiscover correctly to ensure that all of Microsoft 365 works, including Exchange Online.
When you deploy Microsoft Sentinel, one of the most important design decisions is determining the appropriate data retention period.
Microsoft 365 tenants usually include many Entra iD apps. These apps hold permissions, including permissions that hackers like to exploit. This article explains how to use PowerShell to detect apps with high-priority permissions and report them to administrators for review.
The GIFShell attack describes how attackers can penetrate Teams to run commands using special GIFs, including the ability to exfiltrate data. One practical and quick way to stop similar attacks is to limit the set of Teams organizations your tenant will communicate with by establishing an allow list for external access.
This week on the Practical 365 podcast, Paul and I are talking about Microsoft Teams and the Hybrid Workplace. Microsoft have released "Hybrid Work Guides for your Business". And, whilst producing brochures for your executives to read about how to improve Hybrid work - Teams Rooms gets some licensing changes - which you'll either love or.. not love so much. Plus, ever wanted a universal translator? Teams delivers...
In the Exchange Server 2019 “H1” updates, Microsoft finally supported removing the last Exchange Server. But what if you've already said goodbye to yours, and want to get into a supported state? Find out what you need to do..
Preparation, Preparation, and More Preparation Migrations in Microsoft 365 are a complex beast. It seems every time you feel like you have captured everything, more apps or functionalities appear. Every shiny new tool Microsoft releases is another consideration for migration teams and IT departments. Planning for migrations – tenant-to-tenant or otherwise – is a mammoth […]
Microsoft recently released Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection. Learn how it works and how to enable it!
The great remove basic authentication from Exchange Online project is rapidly approaching the October 1 date when Microsoft will start removing support for basic authentication for seven email connectivity protocols. We've known about this date for well over a year, but some organizations need a little extra time to be ready. Microsoft is offering a one-time three-month extension to January 1, 2023. After that, they're going to proceed with the final termination.
In the very early Windows NT Days, we had computer accounts connected to domain controllers. This provided the early building blocks of securing data and computers in company networks. Since then, our entire digital landscape has transformed. With modern networking and cloud adoption across so much of our world, it makes sense for our computer accounts to make the move from on-prem Active Directory (AD) to Azure Active Directory (AAD).
This article is a rough collection of rough pitfalls for you to consider when planning your next Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant migration project.
On August 26, Microsoft announced that they will retire Kaizala in August 2023. The Kaizala retirement is not big news because it's been coming for a while. If you want to get ahead of the game, you can remove the Kaizala service plans from the Office 365 licenses assigned to user accounts. We explain how to do the job in an example PowerShell script.