I often get asked by customers about the frequency of MFA for Office 365 / Azure AD. There is an assumption that when we enabled MFA, users should get prompted when they log in every morning. By default that isn't the case - and has never really been the case. It also really shouldn't be …
Month: April 2021
Script to Quickly Document your Conditional Access Policies
Conditional Access Policies are often critical to an organizations security configuration for Microsoft 365 and any other integrated apps that leverage Azure AD. I've been using this script for a while to document and 'snapshot' Conditional Access Policies in customer environments and thought I would share via GitHub. The script will gather each existing Conditional …
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Configure Teams Direct Routing, Simple Deployment via PowerShell
A massive amount of organizations are delving into Teams even deeper and assessing the calling functionality as a replacement for their existing phone system. Of the different ways of implementing Teams calling, Direct Routing seems to be the standard for large organizations. The flexibility afforded through Direct Routing is exactly what is needed in a …
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Connect to Microsoft Planner PowerShell
With the upcoming release of Microsoft Planner Rosters, a lot of people will be jumping into the Planner configuration to figure out how it's enabled and disabled. I've been doing the same thing. Planner Powershell isn't really something I've needed to play around with in the past as there isn't much in the module to …
Deploying Office 365 Sensitivity Labels for the First Time – Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Sensitivity Labels in Office 365 can provide a fantastic level of protection to our tenant. We can use them to protect a range of services from files to Teams and Sites. One pain point I've seen a lot of customers struggle with in the past is the initial deployment of Sensitivity Labels. There is a …
Google Federation for Azure AD B2B Guest Users with Gmail
With Azure AD B2B, When we want to collaborate with another Microsoft 365 tenant, or even a personal Microsoft account, everything just works out of the box. In this scenario the federation is already in place and the guest user account is provisioned and redeemed without issue. That's great for a lot of businesses we …
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How to Enable Microsoft Teams Public Preview in your Organization
The Microsoft Teams feature updates are still coming thick and fast with a host of new features appearing for Teams users every month. even just looking at the roadmap page, there are 219 features in development at the time of writing and 26 currently rolling out. With the pace of updates, it's important to keep …
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Securing External Access to Files in Teams: The Two Most Important Basic Configurations
Within Microsoft 365, it's almost impossible to avoid deploying Microsoft Teams. The value provided by Teams from a collaboration perspective is very hard to pass up. This is all great but since Teams allows such easy to use collaboration features, there are also risks that data leakage can occur either by mistake or intentionally. There …
Options to Flag External Mails in Exchange Online
When you receive a large volume of mails, it can often become cumbersome to process through each one and to distinguish when a mail was sent internally vs externally from a user with a similar name. On it's own, replying to someone externally with a message you assumed was going internally can lead to embarrassing …
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Viewing Windows Release Health in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
When reviewing the health status of Windows 10 release to locate known issues, release notes and fixes, the Windows Release Health is a fantastic resource and contains detailed information on the various Windows releases and what we may need to know about each when approaching an update. In a great quality of life improvement, for …
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