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.
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, how to transfer data from Exchange to Azure AD, and how to retrieve information from the attributes. Azure AD custom security attributes have some advantages, but they also have some downsides.
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. Plus the need to collect and analyze the log data available in cloud environments to make sure that nothing nasty is slipping through.
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. It’s possible to implement number matching and additional context for MFA challenges in 30 minutes, and the two increase the security of MFA. It’s something that every Microsoft 365 tenant administrator should consider, as we explain here.
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. Adaptive scopes are well suited to the kind of processing needed by large enterprises, which is good because they required Office 365 E5 licenses.