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!
The Exchange Recipient Admin Center (ERAC) is a free local web UI to help you manage Exchange-related attributes after you remove the last Exchange Server and install Microsoft's supported Management Tools onto your administrator workstation.
The Microsoft 365 Groups Ownership Governance policy is now generally available. Also known as the ownerless group policy, this capability allows organizations to make sure that all groups have owners by detecting ownerless groups and extending invitations to active group members to become owners. It's a useful capability, especially in large tenants with many groups.
Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange 2013, 2016, and 2019. The updates address some known elevation of permission vulnerabilities. Microsoft says that there's no evidence that attackers have exploited the vulnerabilities "in the wild," but that's no reason to avoid installing the security updates as soon as possible.
IOT isn't just a buzzword, applied to the right problems. Combined with Microsoft Teams and the Power Platform, an IOT deployment can use information from the real-world to automate business processes and take the human factor out of tasks that are costly when people forget about them. In our guide and video series, find out what IOT devices can be deployed with Azure and Microsoft 365 easily, and how to leverage the information they provide with the Power Platform with real-world business process automation examples.
Season 3 of the podcast discusses the biggest news for Exchange Hybrid organizations - as well as the changes from Azure Purview to Microsoft Purview - timely changes coming to the world of Microsoft 365 compliance.
Running an Exchange hybrid server in Azure is easy; the challenge is cost - the savior is automation. This article covers how to automate your Exchange Hybrid server in Azure and significantly reduce the cost of running your hybrid server in Azure with basic start/stop solutions, progressing to maintenance scripts to ensure the server is kept up to date regularly. It also explores how the maintenance scripts can be expanded to cover scheduled reporting or other tasks.
Can you remove the last Exchange Server? Perhaps - but not without a few caveats. Read our take on this new capability and what it offers.