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 …
For all the cool features of Office 365 and the Office suite, there are always use cases for third party integrations. These apps provide an extension to the Office platform and add some specific functionality that might not be something that Microsoft can, or want to deliver to the entire platform. These apps are hosted …
Continue reading Managing Office 365 Integrated Apps From The Admin Center
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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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 …
Continue reading How To Use Microsoft 365 Productivity Score To Drive Digital Transformation
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 …
Continue reading Keeping Up With Change: Planning For Microsoft Teams Public Preview
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 …
Continue reading Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Configuration Analyzer
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 …
With so many different productivity tools at our disposal today it can be hard to stay organized. We have apps like Planner and To-Do (which now roll up into Tasks in Teams) that can help track progress on work and remind us of our task list. We also have OneNote which is great for personal …
Continue reading Project Moca – Organize Your Content in Outlook on the Web
The built in controls in Azure AD for Guest User invitations are great for most cases. You can lock down guest invitations to specific users or groups and even specific recipient domains. When we look at more highly secure tenancies however, we often see requirements for approval flows or custom workflows to be associated with …
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