Practical Protection: Updating Your Password Policies
This week on Practical Protection, we are talking about Password Policies, what NIST thinks, and offer some advice on staying secure.
October 2, 2024
A New Version of the Room Mailbox Statistics Script
The room mailbox statistics script has proven to be a popular script downloaded and used by many to analyze the usage patterns of room mailboxes. Recently, a reader pointed out that the Graph API request to fetch workspaces didn't work. Microsoft has changed the Places resource and the request now needed to run against the beta endpoint. All of which brought me to rewrite the script using the Graph SDK.
October 1, 2024
Practical Purview: Controls to Include in a SharePoint/Teams Provisioning Solution
This episode of Practical Purview showcases some compliance controls that you should consider including in any provisioning solution. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather some key controls to consider.
September 30, 2024
Practical Graph: Finding and Removing Messages from Exchange Online Mailboxes
Users receive all manner of notification messages from different sources. These messages are of no great value after a few days, so here's a script to find and remove messages to clean up mailboxes. All written using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
September 26, 2024
Using Device Control in Defender for Endpoint to Block USB Drives
Copying data from Windows endpoints to USB storage devices is one of the largest sources of data leakage. In this article, we discuss two simple solutions to avoid this problem.
September 25, 2024
TEC Special: AI, Identity, and the Future of IT with Shinesa Cambric – The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E28
In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, we are joined by TEC Speaker, Shinesa Cambric, to explore the parallels between AI adoption and the cloud revolution, get into the changing nature of identity in our digital world, and get a sneak peak into Shinesa's Keynote session.
September 24, 2024
Practical Teams Phone: Microsoft Teams Shared Calling
In the first episode of Practical Teams Phone, Thorsten Pickhan reviews Teams Shared Calling, how it works, and some practical use cases.
September 23, 2024
Agents are the Most Interesting Initiative in Copilot Wave 2
Microsoft's big launch of Copilot Wave 2 featured many new capabilities, like a super-duper focused Inbox for Outlook (one that works this time), Python in Excel, and a profusion of agents for SharePoint Online. The idea behind agents is pretty good and should be valuable, even if IT might have some dark thoughts about how agents might allow people to access information that they shouldn't (this won't happen).
September 19, 2024
Practical Protection: Sign-In Marking
Microsoft reported yet another nation-state attack, code-named Peach Sandstorm. In this blog, we discuss the threat actor and provide steps to defend against similar attacks.
September 18, 2024
Practical Graph: Creating Contacts using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
Three years ago, we described how to create organizational contacts in user mailboxes with Graph API requests. In this iteration, we read the contacts from a Microsoft list and use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to update user mailboxes. The techniques explained in the article can be used in many scenarios.
September 17, 2024
Group Writeback with Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync
Microsoft recently stopped supporting Microsoft Entra Connect and introduced its successor, Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync. This blog reviews how to set up and configure Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync, with helpful tips along the way.
September 16, 2024
Microsoft’s Simple Message: Prepare to Move to Exchange Server Subscription Edition
Microsoft plans a transition of the current Exchange Server licensing and support model to Exchange Server subscription edition (SE) starting in 2025. Organizations must prepare for the transition by upgrading servers to the latest cumulative updates of Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019. The transition is unlikely to be seamless, but glitches can be avoided by good planning and careful monitoring of community discussions.
September 13, 2024
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