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 …
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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 …
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 …
Microsoft 365 Licensing Auto-Claim Policy
There are various methods for managing Microsoft/Office 365 licensing for our users. We can manually assign licenses as we always could, but now we can also use the fantastic Group-based licensing feature to add some standardisation to our licensing deployments and we also have certain licenses available under self-service purchase. A new addition to the …
A Look at Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migration Options
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 …
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Reminder: Power BI Premium and Power Automate Per User (RPA) to be Added to Microsoft 365 Self-Service Purchases
Self-Service purchases of Microsoft 365 products were a controversial addition to Microsoft 365 when it originally launched a few years back. Granting the ability to end users to purchase products outside of admin control or the existing subscription is great from a digital transformation and usability perspective, however, in highly secure and governed environments, presents …
Study Guide Series: Exam MS-500 – Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance (Part 2)
This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. This post will cover the following exam topics listed under the “Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance” section: Administer Compliance ManagerReview Compliance Manager reportsCreate and perform Compliance Manager assessments and action items Administer Compliance …
Study Guide Series: Exam MS-500 – Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance (Part 1)
This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. This post will cover the following exam topics listed under the “Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance” section: Plan for regulatory compliance in Microsoft 365Review and interpret GDPR dashboards and reportsManage Data Subject Requests …
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