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Conditional Access policies provide many security benefits, from the implementation of MFA in a user-friendly way, to the controls that can limit what data users access or download. However, the process of setting up CA policies is daunting to some at first. This article provides some thought processes and best practices to make this security initiative more manageable.
Join myself and Paul Robichaux for this week's latest episode of the podcast to discuss a plethora of updates in Microsoft 365. Plus we're joined by Microsoft MVP Theresa Miller to discuss all things VDI with Microsoft 365. We chat about Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, VMware and much more, from the point of view of Microsoft 365 IT pros.
Last year, Microsoft announced new pro video output features coming to Microsoft Teams aimed at making it easier to get full-quality video feeds from Teams meetings into other platforms. This article examines the new features along with recent improvements to NDI output functionality.
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Azure Automation runbooks can run Exchange Online PowerShell code on sandbox machines. Is this a good way of getting work done? In this article, we examine how to create an Azure automation account, a RunAs account, and some runbooks for PowerShell code to run against Exchange Online and other Microsoft 365 data.
Creating content to share with your fellow IT professionals is time-consuming, and getting the right setup and equipment for tech blogging, vlogging and podcasts is important. However, it can be difficult to know what the best kit for your budget is. In this article you'll find exactly what you need, from Microsoft 365 environments, microphone, cameras, green-screens to software for recording or streaming your next tech discovery in the Microsoft Cloud.
Exchange Online now supports SMTP Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS), a mechanism to help defend SMTP communications between mail servers. Microsoft 365 tenants can decide if they want to enable MTA-STS for their domain by publishing a DNS record and an MTA-STS policy. You don't have to use MTA-STS, but it's a good idea to consider the option.
In the second article of this 2-part series, we describe the alternatives that exist to help secure access for remote workers, exploring the worthy features that don’t require MDCA. The features detailed in this article are available for any tenant with Azure AD Premium licensing and offer a more generic set of controls for tenants where MDCA licensing is not available.
Task Publishing in Microsoft Teams allows you to configure a hierarchy for distributing Planner tasks throughout your organization. In this article, learn how to plan and deploy Task Publishing and what the experience is for colleagues using the app.
Over time, Microsoft 365 tenants tend to accumulate large numbers of guest accounts in Entra ID. And over time, some of those accounts become obsolete and inactive. In this article, we explore how to use PowerShell to analyze the activity of guest accounts to figure out what accounts are inactive and which are candidates for removal. It's something you should do annually.
In June of 2021, Microsoft announced the requirements for Windows 11, which has a notable security hardware requirement: PC configurations must include version 2.0 of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to install Windows 1. This article reviews what TPMs are, outlines the benefits and use cases, and examines the extent to which the requirement will protect devices from the most common threats.
Trainable classifiers are generated from a set of sample documents through a learning process and can then be used in many Microsoft 365 compliance scenarios like auto-labeling, communications compliance, and DLP. In this article, we review how to create a custom trainable classifier and how to give feedback for the matches generated by the classifier.
There are many ways to provide secure access for remote users working on a home network or personal device (such as VPNs or VDI environments) and they each bring their own levels of complexity. This article explores using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps as a solution that is easily deployed, and capable of expanding beyond Office 365 to bring a higher level of control and governance over third-party cloud apps that lack similar native controls.
