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Teams Processing Causes Problems for Disabled Azure AD User Accounts

Post author:By Tony Redmond

Organizations often disable Azure AD accounts when users leave or for other reasons. What you might not know is that Teams then removes the account from membership of individual teams. A background process looks for disabled users and removes these accounts from team memberships. That doesn't sound too bad, but what's horrible is when you unblock an account. Teams takes a long time (at least 24 hours) to restore standard teams, it might not ever restore membership of org-wide teams, and private channel membership is removed too. It's not a good situation.

Blog

April 20, 2021

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Using PowerShell to Manage Conditional Access (CA) Policies

Post author:By Damian Scoles

Microsoft provides many methods to manage a tenant’s data and users. PowerShell is a powerful tool to manage resources, including Conditional Access Policies using a set of cmdlets in the AzureAD module. In this article, Microsoft MVP Damian Scoles reviews the eight PowerShell cmdlets and how to use them.

Blog

March 25, 2021

The Practical 365 Update: S2, Ep 14 – Azure AD, Viva Connections, Teams News and special guest Brian Desmond

Post author:By Steve Goodman

On the show this week, we're talking about the Azure AD outage, new Exchange patches (yes, again!) and tools, how to get ready for Viva Connections, talking UserVoice and the biggest Roadmap and Message center news. And - Brian Desmond joins us to talk in a more positive way about the Azure AD Premium (and free) features you absolutely need to switch on.

Blog

March 19, 2021

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Azure AD Suffers Another Big Authentication Outage

Post author:By Tony Redmond

Azure AD suffered a major outage on Monday, March 15 2021 where authentication failures stopped Microsoft 365 users working. Apps which didn't need to authenticate keep on working while any which needed to prove its credentials ran into an immediate roadblock.

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March 15, 2021

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How to Decide Between Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync

Post author:By Jeff Guillet

Microsoft recently announced that Azure AD Connect cloud sync had reached GA (general availability), adding another option for directory synchronization with Microsoft 365. This article provides a background on directory synchronization and why it is fundamental for your journey to the cloud. Then we will discuss the solutions and give you the information you need to pick the right solution. Let’s begin with some basics.

Blog

March 11, 2021

Microsoft Wants to Talk About Group Sprawl (Finally)

Post author:By Tony Redmond

Nearly seven years after the introduction of Office 365 Groups, Microsoft has finally admitted that tenants might just have a problem with "group sprawl." In other words, tenants have too many underused or unused groups because the groups have been created without oversight and not managed thereafter. Microsoft wants to discuss the problem with tenant administrators. Practical365.com thinks this is a great idea and strongly supports the initiative to get a handle on group sprawl once and for all.

Microsoft 365

February 17, 2021

Secure access to Office 365 with Active Directory Federation Service 2019

Post author:By Dominik Hoefling

MVP Dominik Hoelfing provides guidance on how to secure your Office 365 environment with Active Directory Federation Service.

Azure Active Directory

December 6, 2018

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Access Reviews for Azure AD/Office 365 Admin Roles

Post author:By Vasil Michev

MVP Vasil Michev discusses the further improvements made to the access reviews feature for admin roles in Azure AD/Office 365.

Azure Active Directory

October 23, 2018

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New Azure Certifications announced at Ignite 2018

Post author:By Chris Rhodes

A summary of the new Azure Certifications announcements at Microsoft Ignite by Chris Rhodes. He goes into detail about Azure Administrator, Azure Developer and Azure Solutions Architect.

Azure Active Directory

October 22, 2018

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License Admin Role and Other Improvements in Azure AD Administration

Post author:By Vasil Michev

Microsoft recently updated Azure AD to move toward RBAC (Role Based Access Control) functionality. Find out what this means, particularly regarding License Admin roles.

Active Directory

September 25, 2018

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Multi-factor Authentication by Default for Administrators in Azure AD and Office 365

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

How the Azure Active Directory baseline security policy enforces multi-factor authentication for privileged administrator accounts in Office 365 and Azure AD.

Microsoft 365

June 29, 2018

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Blocking IMAP, POP, and Other Legacy Applications From Office 365 Using Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Post author:By Paul Cunningham

How to use Azure Active Directory conditional access policies to block legacy applications such as POP, IMAP, and basic authentication from connecting to Office 365.

Microsoft 365

June 14, 2018

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