The built in controls in Azure AD for Guest User invitations are great for most cases. You can lock down guest invitations to specific users or groups and even specific recipient domains. When we look at more highly secure tenancies however, we often see requirements for approval flows or custom workflows to be associated with …
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A feature that has been missing for a long time in Microsoft Exchange, and something a lot of Exchange Admins may not have even known existed, is the concept of "Plus Addressing". Plus addressing essentially allows an additional 'tag' to be added to a sent email, this 'tag' or 'plus address' helps provide context around …
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As announced last year by Microsoft, Office 365 support for Office 2013 is ending very soon. From October 12th 2020, the Office 2013 suite will no longer be directly supported for use with Office 365. What does this mean? Essentially, the end of support for Office 2013 does not mean that Office 2013 will stop …
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With the functionality available in Microsoft Teams, lot of organizations are focusing moving from an on-premises Skype for Business server to full Microsoft Teams Voice. This requires user accounts to be migrated to Teams and assigned Full Teams Only Mode. I've put together a handy script to allow the migration from Skype to be user …
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Microsoft Lists is a new app that has recently been released for Microsoft/Office 365 users. Lists allows the creation of "Lists" to track and manage information and share among groups of users. Lists are very similar to regular SharePoint Lists but do not need an entire site or group to create. When opening the Microsoft …
In the process of updating my library of standard scripts and functions, I've taken the opportunity to change a lot of them to use Graph API rather than legacy EWS or PowerShell Modules. Using Graph helps to make them much more efficient and flexible and a lot of the functionality that I need is there …
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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the release of Tasks in Teams. Tasks is essentially an update to the existing Microsoft Planner Teams app that adds a host of cool functionality to Teams. It brings together the regular "To-Do" and Planner contents for the user, and also the Planner tasks for the individual Teams that the …
Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) is an amazing tool that a lot of organizations don't seem to use to it's full potential. There are a huge amount of third party apps supported and the flexibility it brings is fantastic. As a baseline, Cloud App Security Discovery is a great way to get insights into the …
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When I'm working from home (which is pretty much all the time right now), my setup involves two laptops. I've got one high power laptop, that is essentially used as a Desktop and doesn't move a lot, and another more lightweight Surface device that I use for email, calls and light work, including eventually returning …
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In line with the change to Stream videos storage to OneDrive and SharePoint. Microsoft are now enabling the ability to control the download functionality on shared videos. Previously, when sharing documents from OneDrive or SharePoint Online, users had the ability to make a file read-only and restrict download at the time of sharing. Planned for …
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