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A January 19 report from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) tells of an attack by Russian state actor Midnight Blizzard against Microsoft corporate systems. The attack resulted in the exfiltration of some email and documents from email accounts owned by senior Microsoft employees.
It’s time to review your security baselines! In this blog, Jon Jarvis provides his thoughts on Security Baselines for Microsoft 365 and Intune, including some tools to help secure Microsoft 365 tenants.
In a January 15 announcement, Microsoft says that they have removed the previous restrictions that applied to purchases of Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. Office 365 E3 and E5 tenants can now buy and deploy Copilot and the requirement to buy a minimum of 300 licenses is gone. Suddenly, 2024 has become much more interesting from an AI perspective for many Office 365 tenants.
People have used Outlook's Junk Email Options for years to maintain sets of safe and blocked recipients. The possibility exists that Outlook's safe list might interfere with the processing of email by Exchange Online Protection. This article explores the feasibility of disabling Junk Email Options to use tenant-level blocks instead.
On the show this week, Paul Robichaux and I are joined by Microsoft's Tim McMichael to discuss DLConversionV2, his latest project, and to talk all things around challenges with hybrid identity.
Microsoft 365 subscriptions are what tenants buy to access functionality. The service plans in the subscriptions (product licenses) control what features are available. This article explains how to use PowerShell to generate a report about subscriptions and the service plans in each license.
What does your Incident Response plan look like? In this blog, Paul Robichaux reviews what to expect when building your own Incident Response Plan.
Exchange Online recipient filters calculate the membership of dynamic distribution groups. The filters support email addresses, but they don't work. Another method is needed to create dynamic distribution lists based on user mailbox email addresses, as we describe in this article and script.
Cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK are available to manage conditional access policies. The challenge in using PowerShell rather than the Entra ID admin center GUI is how policy settings are structured. But practice (and some experimentation) makes perfect, as we discuss in this article.
In this article, we discuss how to enhance mobile security in MAM, focusing on the Defender for Endpoint functionality and features related to mobile devices, specifically for BYOD scenarios.
Sometimes tenants need to switch Microsoft 365 licenses for Entra ID user accounts, usually to upgrade functionality. This is easy to do manually for one or two accounts, but it's a boring exercise when you need to process more, especially when each account might have a different set of disabled service plans in the original license. This article explains how to process account licenses with PowerShell.
This article is a review of Microsoft 365 in 2023 covering topics like Copilot, the new Teams client, security, the ban on old servers sending email to Exchange Online, and Microsoft's ongoing attempts to monetize the installed base with premium products and add-ons.
