Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft’s log aggregator. Along with other data, Sentinel can ingest events from the Office 365 audit log. Once ingested, we can visualize the data through workbooks. If you have an Azure subscription, it’s surprisingly easy to take advantage of the 31-day trial to see if Sentinel can do a job for your organization. Follow our steps and you’ll be visualizing quickly.
Microsoft Caps Exchange Online’s “Unlimited Archive” at 1.5 TB
On November 1, Microsoft will limit auto-expanding archives to 1.5 TB and bring the era of “bottomless archiving” to an end. The new limit might not affect many Exchange Online tenants, but it’s a wake-up call for administrators to check how archiving is used in their tenants. To help the process, we’ve written a PowerShell script to report the current set of user and shared mailboxes with archives.
Old Versions of Outlook for Windows Stop Connecting to Exchange Online November 1
From November 1, 2021, Microsoft requires Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 (with fixes) as the minimum client version to connect to Exchange Online. Given all the publicity about attacks against the on-premises version of Exchange earlier this year, it’s a wonder why organizations continue to allow people to use outdated client software to connect to Exchange Online. In any case, the drop-dead date is November 1. If you have any old Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, or Outlook 2013 (before SP1) clients, it’s time to start upgrading.
How to Convert Azure B2B Guest Users to Members While Maintaining User Collaboration
Azure B2B guest accounts are often created during a Merger & Acquisition, so teams from both organizations can easily collaborate during the business and technology integration. However, these external users with B2B Guest accounts in their directory will eventually need to be migrated, which is problematic since B2B Guest accounts aren’t recognized as being licensed. The guest account can be removed and a new one created, but previous permissions would be lost. So how do we preserve permissions, keep collaborating without managing two sets of credentials while preparing the user account for data migrations? This article walks you through a solution that can be used in certain situations to help you easily manage the account to meet your needs.
Manage Exchange Online at Scale
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) Ingo Gegenwarth provides a glimpse into his speaking session at TEC and how to manage ExO at scale with PowerShell.