I hate when I see PST files being used as a business solution. It's quite common when performing a discovery that you will find a host of users who heavily rely on PST files as their "Personal Archives". This usually stems from a lack of storage space in an on premises Exchange environment, with users …
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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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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 …
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 …
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DomainKeys Identified Mail is a security standard for email which leverages public and private certificates to secure the transit of mails by signing them as they leave the source environment. The recipients can then verify the sender by looking up the public key via DNS lookup. Having DKIM set up for your mail domains goes …
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 …
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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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There are an amazing number of great apps available to integrate into Microsoft Teams. Some of these apps are published by Microsoft and many more are third part integrations ranging from handy productivity tools to line of business apps surfaced in a users Teams console. One cool app that is now available is the Teams …
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Since its inception, Microsoft Teams has become a core part of the modern Microsoft 365 ecosystem. While it has been steadily gaining users naturally, the daily Teams user count has grown exponentially this year with many organizations being forced to adopt a work from home model. This has meant that a lot of IT departments …
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Due to an issue on a file migration, I recently had a requirement to compare source and destination OneDrive structures. The easiest way I could come up with to do this was to use Graph API to expand the folder structure and export to CSV. I've always been a big PowerShell users so that is …
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