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Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Given the widespread use of guest accounts within Microsoft 365 to allow external sharing of resources, it’s almost inevitable that some unused guest accounts exist in any Microsoft 365 tenant. Identifying unused guest accounts is a good management practice. If the accounts serve no purpose, why keep them? This article explores how to find unused guest accounts. What you do with them later is up to you.

• Entra ID

December 16, 2024

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Practical Protection: The Great “Connected Experiences” Panic of 2024

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

This episode of Practical Protection dives into connected experiences, what they are, and debunks some claims that were made regarding AI models using customer data via Connected Experiences.

• Security

December 11, 2024

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Practical Copilot: Figuring Out What People Do with Microsoft 365 Copilot

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft has a new allInteractionHistory Graph API in beta. The API returns details of user interactions with Microsoft 365 Copilot apps, like Copilot in Word and Copilot in Outlook at a much more detailed level than what is available in the usage report API. Despite the current flaws in the API, having access to detailed information about how people use technology is incredibly valuable.

• Copilot

December 10, 2024

Practical Sentinel: Operationalizing Health Monitoring

• Post author:By Thijs Lecomte

Like all cloud services, Microsoft Sentinel can fail from time to time. In this blog, we dive into how to find and fix these issues using the Microsoft Sentinel Health feature, which enables monitoring for analytic rules, automation rules, and data connectors.

• Sentinel

December 9, 2024

How to Use Redirects to Minimize Disruption When Moving SharePoint Sites

• Post author:By James Yip

Minimizing disruption is key to any migration. In this blog, we discuss migrating SharePoint sites and data to SharePoint Online, reviewing common issues, and offering a few different approaches to reduce friction.

• SharePoint Online

December 5, 2024

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Microsoft Places, Teams Features and Copilot Confusion: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E32

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this Episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Paul and Steve explore Microsoft's ever-expanding Copilot strategy, debate the complexities of Microsoft Places licensing, and discuss whether every AI feature really needs Copilot branding.

• Blog

December 4, 2024

Practical Copilot: Stop Microsoft 365 Chat Accessing the Content of Confidential Documents

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

You can't prevent Microsoft 365 Chat finding documents based on searches against Microsoft 365 Search and the semantic index. But you can stop Copilot from using the content of sensitive documents in its summaries and generated text. This article explains how the different ways to block Copilot in Microsoft 365 work.

• Copilot

December 3, 2024

Practical PnP: Managing Site Permissions

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

Permissions are central to SharePoint Online and it’s important to be able to manage site permissions effectively. In this episode of Practical PnP, we deep dive into site permissions, providing practical examples and use cases that you can apply to your environment.

• Blog

December 2, 2024

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Practical Protection: Getting Ready for MFA Enforcement in Microsoft 365

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

Starting in February 2025, Microsoft is going to enforce MFA for all access to the Microsoft 365 admin center—both for users and administrators. Let this episode of Practical Protection serve as a reminder to configure MFA for your tenant, if you haven’t already!

• Blog

November 27, 2024

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Handling Date Values When Moving from EWS to the Graph

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

Microsoft announced the Retirement of EWS in Exchange Online a while ago. That means any scripts or applications you have written should be reviewed and rewritten to use Microsoft Graph. In this blog, we review an example of moving from EWS to the Graph while handling date values.

• Microsoft Graph

November 26, 2024

Practical Sentinel: Adding Automation for Networking Data

• Post author:By Thijs Lecomte

In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we explain how to use Microsoft Sentinel’s SOAR capabilities to build automation on top of networking data through enrichments, automated actions, and threat intelligence integrations.

• Security

November 25, 2024

Identity Management Deep Dive with Microsoft’s Merill Fernando – The Practical 365 Podcast S4E31

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, we are joined by Maryl Fernando to discuss Ignite, Maester.dev, and more!

• Blog

November 22, 2024