I hate when I see PST files being used as a business solution. It's quite common when performing a discovery that you will find a host of users who heavily rely on PST files as their "Personal Archives". This usually stems from a lack of storage space in an on premises Exchange environment, with users …
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With the massive shift towards user mobility and BYOD devices, it's important to consider how we can help users be at their most productive while maintaining control over data. For mobile devices (Android, iOS) we have Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) Mobile Application Management (MAM) Policies. MAM Policies work extremely effectively for BYOD devices and help …
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The delegated admin privileges available to partner organizations such as MSPs and CSPs are fantastic to allow admin access without going to the trouble of maintaining a list of admin accounts for each customer. Along with just rotating accounts as people move through the business, ensuring the correct security is in place and requiring licensing …
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External file sharing is always a struggle to get right in Microsoft 365. Based on factors like company culture, industry and relationship to partner companies, there are a huge amount of variables that will influence the exact policy and controls that are required to tailor the relevant features. I can't stress enough how much setting …
Azure AD Group Role Assignment is a great new preview feature that provides a lot of flexibility and governance to assigning admin roles in Azure AD / Office 365. When combined with Privileged Identity Managements new Privileged Access Groups (Preview) feature, we can begin to set up a really slick permission eligibility structure that is …
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With the recent public release of the Microsoft 365 Productivity Score. It has never been easier to assess your organization's adoption of Microsoft collaboration tools, identify areas for improvement and plan to help users get the most out of the tools available. The productivity score is a great baselining tool in the same vein as …
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With the 'evergreen' nature of Microsoft Cloud services, we get a constant stream of new features and fixes that could never be matched in an on premises environment. The technical change itself would take up way too much time to plan, implement and support. Many organizations are still running legacy, out of support versions of …
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (or Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection if you're old fashioned) is an amazing toolset for securing your Office 365 environment with some extremely powerful features. Previously, I have written about the built in Preset Security Policies that Microsoft have recently made available. These policies help to provide a baseline for …
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As Microsoft work to finish the move to Microsoft Edge, the new version of Edge that is, more and more services are becoming unsupported on Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 11 is now considered by Microsoft to be a legacy browser and all efforts for functionality and supportability are going into Microsoft Edge (Edge Chromium) going …
DomainKeys Identified Mail is a security standard for email which leverages public and private certificates to secure the transit of mails by signing them as they leave the source environment. The recipients can then verify the sender by looking up the public key via DNS lookup. Having DKIM set up for your mail domains goes …
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