Microsoft Entra Authentication Contexts (Available with Microsoft 365 E5 subscriptions) are a way to tag resources in your cloud environment (both Microsoft and Custom Apps) that you want to be treated differently from a Conditional Access perspective. At a basic level, we tag an object or app with an Authentication Context, and Conditional Access treats …
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Why would you need to update Author and Modified Dates As part of a recent migration project, I built some custom tooling to help move data (mainly files) from a legacy platform to SharePoint Online. When moving from file servers, SharePoint On-Premises from another Microsoft 365 tenant, there are plenty of great tools out there …
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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 …
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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A major part of any digital transformation programme, particularly involving Microsoft 365 is ensuring that you have allowed for sufficient communication and business change management. Too often IT departments deploy a solution with the best of intentions but that solution is deployed to meet a technical requirement while not considering that users are being asked …
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Microsoft's offerings around data ingestion to Office 365 are going from strength to strength recently. With the much improved SharePoint Online Migration Tool and Migration Manager, migrating files into SharePoint Online has never been easier. The SharePoint Online Migration Tool which allows us to migrate SharePoint content into SharePoint Online provides a great user experience …
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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 …
External file sharing is always a struggle to get right in Microsoft 365. Based on factors like company culture, industry and relationship to partner companies, there are a huge amount of variables that will influence the exact policy and controls that are required to tailor the relevant features. I can't stress enough how much setting …
In line with the change to Stream videos storage to OneDrive and SharePoint. Microsoft are now enabling the ability to control the download functionality on shared videos. Previously, when sharing documents from OneDrive or SharePoint Online, users had the ability to make a file read-only and restrict download at the time of sharing. Planned for …
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Microsoft Teams recordings are a great feature for when people miss meetings and need to catch up, or when they just need to review the content. We've used them in the past for technical demos and project handovers. Recordings were were, until now, saved into Microsoft Stream and available to view in the Stream app. …
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