An Amazing Tool That You Can Start Using Quickly The world of Microsoft cloud security is a busy one. There always seems to be something new you need to consider to stay up to date. Even without new recommendations and controls, keeping track of your existing controls is difficult enough! In this article I want …
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Save Time With PowerShell I recently came across a requirement in a customer project to assign colors to an existing choice column in a SharePoint Online document library. This is a pretty simple task that can be completed in s hort amount of time using the GUI. The issue was, there were a large number …
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Small Changes To Help Improve Sharing Practices I've been talking a lot with customers lately about SharePoint Online and Teams Governance. Mnat of these conversations have been driven by discussions around Copilot for Microsoft 365. I've also spoken at length about the perceived risk of Copilot for Microsoft 365 when it comes to exposing sensitive …
Different Methods With Mixed Results I'll start this article by saying for 99% of users, disabling OneDrive is not recommended. OneDrive is fundamental to many of the best apps and functions available in Microsoft 365. That being said, there are cases where disabling OneDrive is desirable. For example, you may not want contractors to access …
Fast Track Document Creation Through Automation For many organizations, filling out standard document templates can take up a lot of time for people. Copying information from different systems into a Word document is a manual process for many. Along with being time consuming, this manual data copy can be prone to error. One of the …
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Update Your Environment Now To Make Sure Your Scripts Keep Working The PnP PowerShell team have announced recently an upcoming change to how the PnP module authenticates that may well break many PnP PowerShell scripts. To summerize the announcement (Full announcement here), the Multi-tenant PnP Management Shell multi-tenant app, used to allow modern authentication for …
Don't Lose Access To Your Emergency Accounts With recent moves from Microsoft to enforce MFA for admin portals access, this raises a problem for many tenants with emergency access / break glass accounts. In line with this, Microsoft recommendations around these accounts has been updated with the following note: Starting July 2024, Azure teams will …
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Quickly Summerize Guest Access to You Resources Guest access in Microsoft 365 is a fantastic was to securly bring external participants into your environment to access resources. Guest access can also provide a governance challenge in larger environments. The removal of stale Guest accounts is something that all organizations should have in their processes. For …
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Driving Better Governance One of the biggest impacts Copilot for Microsoft 365 has had on Organizations, besides the productivity enhancements is that it has driven a renewed focus on governance within SharePoint Online. A common challenge for customers planning to deploy Copilot is a lack of insight into how information is …
A Positive Step, But Many Organizations Are Behind Hopefully by now you're aware that Microsoft are rolling out the enforcement of MFA for the admin portals for all users. Looking at the comments on Microsofts announcement, many organizations are not ready for this change. Before I get into the article, I'll address a few common …
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