Microsoft Opens Up Copilot Chat Access
Follina and DogWalk are both vulnerabilities arising from the bundled Windows diagnostics toolset. Microsoft hasn’t released any patches for these yet, but Defender will block Follina and there are various other mitigations strategies discussed in this post.
Listen in as Steve Goodman and Paul Robichaux discuss two new Microsoft zero-days, Microsoft's new export Graph API charges, and what is Entra. They will also discuss the future of Exchange Server, Windows Autopatch, and what is going on with Roadmap updates in Message Center.
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Microsoft will begin charging to use of Teams Export Graph APIs on a consumption meter basis from July 5. That might not seem such a bad idea, unless you're an ISV and would like to use the APIs for products like backup or tenant-to-tenant migration solutions. Or the tenants who will have to pay for the costs through Azure subscriptions. It seems like Microsoft is the only winner here and all the new APIs will do is add to their swelling cloud profits.
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On June 2, Microsoft made a bunch of announcements covering the future for Exchange Server. A new version will come in 2025 that will follow Microsoft's modern lifecycle policy (i..e., no end of support dates). The downside is that customers must install updates and remain current, and must be covered by Software Assurance. For those who really want to stay with on-premises, this is a good day. And the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) is coming back (hooray!) albeit in a virtual format (boo!).
Giving Intune Role Administrator permissions to all administrators is never the right answer; however, it is important for organizations to correctly set up Intune RBAC roles to ensure that administrators have the permissions to do their daily tasks without interfering or having the ability to tamper with devices that do not concern them.
Microsoft plans to enable Azure AD Security Defaults for Office 365 tenants created prior to October 2019. The move will protect an additional 60 million Azure AD accounts against common attacks by enforcing MFA more broadly. It's a big deal in terms of improving the overall security posture of Office 365. If you don't want to use Security Defaults, tenant administrators can switch them off.
Log ingestion and storage can represent a big portion of the cost of Microsoft Sentinel. This article explores how to increase cost efficiency within Microsoft Sentinel by leveraging Log Analytics capabilities.
On the show this week, we test drive the new Outlook. Is it Outlook for the web, on the desktop or something much bigger? Viva Goals launches for Private Preview – should you sign up? And we’re following the biggest announcements from Microsoft Build and discussing the key news that will make a difference Test […]
Build 2022 is not an event that many IT Pros would naturally attend. The conference is focused on meeting the needs of developers rather than managing IT environments. However, buried in the slew of Microsoft announcements, there's a few topics that catch the eye. Here's what we found.
Microsoft Information Protection generates a lot of information for administrators to monitor and digest, spotting anomalies in all that is difficult. Thijs Lecomte explores how and why you may want to use Microsoft Sentinel to ingest and analyze this data instead.
Any discussion about securing Microsoft Teams can rapidly descend into a detailed debate about different policy settings. But when you focus on what really needs to be done, it's all about making sure that user access is secure, external access is controlled, and individual teams are managed. Easy!
