You’ve Migrated… But What Did You Leave Behind?
Migrations in Microsoft 365 are a complex beast. Every shiny new tool Microsoft releases is another consideration for the migration team!
September 6, 2022
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Migrating On-Prem Active Directory Computer Accounts to Azure AD
With modern networking and cloud adoption, it only makes sense for our computer accounts to make the move from Active Directory to Azure AD.
September 1, 2022
Kerberos Constrained Delegations Crossing AD Security Boundaries
Kerberos Delegations can be confusing, but it is important to understand how delegations behave when configured across trust boundaries.
August 22, 2022
Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Manage Third-Party Apps Better
See the practical use cases for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to reduce information leakage on Microsoft 365 and third-party apps.
June 15, 2022
Why It’s a Good Idea to Review and Remove Inactive Azure AD Guest Accounts Annually
Over time, Microsoft 365 tenants tend to accumulate large numbers of guest accounts in Azure AD. And over time, some of those accounts become obsolete and inactive.
February 1, 2022
How to Manage Teams Apps Permissions and Policies
As Microsoft Teams continues to be rapidly adopted across the globe, the number of applications that integrate with Teams grows as well. So much that it's often difficult for decision-makers and administrators to determine what apps are beneficial to their organization and necessitate inclusion. Fortunately, the Microsoft Teams admin center provides the data around each app you need to decide. This article helps you navigate the Teams admin center; explores the various app types available; and provides detail around permission policies, setup policies, and things like Resource-specific consent you’ll want to familiarize yourself with so you can effectively manage Teams apps for your organization.
January 12, 2022
Can Azure AD Custom Security Attributes Replace Exchange Custom Attributes?
Microsoft launched the preview of Azure AD custom security attributes on December 1. Custom attributes are well known to Exchange administrators. In this article, we look at how to create and add Azure AD custom security attributes
January 4, 2022
Mitigating Risk Created by On-Premises Infrastructures in Microsoft 365
Continuing our review of practices to protect cloud infrastructures from weaknesses that can be introduced from on-premises accounts, we consider admin rights, authentication, and conditional access policies.
November 23, 2021
Improve MFA Effectiveness in Your Microsoft 365 Tenant in 30 Minutes
Microsoft has released two new features to help Multi-factor authentication for Azure AD accounts work smarter and better.
November 22, 2021
Using Adaptive Scopes with Microsoft 365 Retention Policies for Users and Groups
Adaptive scopes are a new way to dynamically target sets of locations (sites, users, and groups) for Microsoft 365 retention policies. In this article, we discuss the basics of adaptive scopes and how to build the filters used in the scopes, and then how to use adaptive scopes in retention policies.
November 11, 2021
Using the Microsoft SDK for PowerShell to Report Azure AD Account Sign-ins
The Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell can be used for many purposes, among which is access to Azure AD account sign-in data. In this article, we explain how to use the SDK cmdlets to retrieve sign-in data for both tenant and guest accounts.
October 26, 2021
Microsoft Forces Move from Azure AD Cmdlets for License Management
On June 30, 2022, Azure AD and Microsoft Online Services cmdlets will stop working for license management. The result is that you need to upgrade PowerShell scripts which use these cmdlets.
September 9, 2021