Following a recent conversation with a customer, I started thinking about how user vigilance is the most effective tool to combat phishing attacks. Phishing is now - more than ever - a real threat in pretty much every organization. We even see phishing attempts in our personal lives with malicious SMS messages and email becoming …
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As Exchange Online admins, there are various reasons we may want to remove a mail from one of our users mailboxes. We may want to remove a specific Phishing mail, or a sensitive mail that was sent to the wrong person. To do this, we can create a new content search and delete the results, …
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My advice to customers who want to use PST files in their environment is pretty simple - don't. Aside from the fact that PST files have no built in governance or information protection features (except setting a password), any organization using Exchange Online should have more than enough storage available between primary and archive mailboxes …
Continue reading Coming Soon – Retention Policies for PST files in OneDrive and SharePoint Online
When reporting on mailboxes in Exchange Online, we don't get a view of the license assignment. This can be valuable information where organizations are running a mixture of Exchange Online SKUs with different mailbox allowances and Archive support. I've put together a very quick and easy script to report on mailbox sizes and assigned licenses …
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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 …
Continue reading Options to Flag External Mails in Exchange Online
When we assess a tenant to tenant migration for Office 365, there are a variety of methods and tools available to us. Depending on the budget and requirements we have during the migration, the tools we use can change drastically. For the key workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) in Office 365, I have broken down …
Continue reading A Look at Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migration Options
TLS has been has been the standard for secure mail transmission for a long time and you'd be hard pressed to find an organization that doesn't use it. With Exchange Online, we use opportunistic TLS by default, this means that if we can use TLS, we will - but if not, we won't. Generally for …
Continue reading Deadline Approaching For Depreciation of TLS 1.0 & 1.1 in Exchange Online
With the proliferation of Microsoft 365 as the collaboration platform of choice in the enterprise space, it's rare to find a large organization that hasn't undergone some form of tenant to tenant migration. This can be a result of mergers, acquisitions or divestitures. Microsoft have not previously had any native tooling to facilitate this and …
Continue reading Exchange Online Native Tenant to Tenant Migrations (Preview)
I recently posted about how we can use Delegated Access Permissions via a partner relationship to connect to an Exchange Online organization through PowerShell. This is a fantastic piece of functionality for MSPs and CSPs to manage multiple tenancies securely without having managing a set of admin identities for all of their customers. To expand …
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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