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How to Create an Adaptive Scope for Retention Policies Based on Domain Names for User Accounts

Azure AD and Exchange Online store information about user principal names and email addresses, but they don't store the domain name of an account. In this article, we explain how to use a custom attribute to store the domain name and then use that with an adaptive scope in a Microsoft 365 retention policy.

Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations Planning: User Experience and Adoption Drives Customer Success

In this article, Julian Stephan reviews the most common user experience scenarios to consider in your tenant-to-tenant migration planning and how to add in the adoption of security and productivity features.

Comparing Outlook Groups to Shared Mailboxes (2022 Edition)

Outlook groups and shared mailboxes both help small teams work with shared email. The decision as to which to use depends on the exact needs the team has. Microsoft has given Outlook groups some useful enhancements recently, but shared mailboxes are still the most email-friendly choice.

Microsoft Turns Off Basic Authentication for Autodiscover

Now that they've disabled basic authentication for email connection protocols, Microsoft is doing the same for the Autodiscover service. This makes sense. There's no point in allowing basic authentication for Autodiscover when clients can't use basic authentication to connect. Microsoft will therefore turn off basic authentication for Autodiscover as it removes basic authentication for protocols like POP3, EAS, IMAP4, EWS, and MAPI.

Microsoft Enters the Backup Business with a New Syntex Service

Microsoft plans to launch a Pay As You Go backup and restore service for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online as part of its Syntex content management suite. This is new ground for Microsoft as they've never offered a backup service for Microsoft 365 before. How will Syntex compare to ISV backup services? Time will tell!

Five ways to Keep Active Directory Secure

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.

Giving Sensitivity Labels a Splash of Color

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.

Heard at TEC: Secure that Active Directory (AD) Migration

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.

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