New Teams features have been coming out an an extraordinary rate over the past year. It seems there's a new feature every week or two. To manage the cadence of updates to users clients, Microsoft has moved the preview feature setting into a dedicated Teams update policy. As with the existing Teams policies, update policies …
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Last month I posted about the preview for the Microsoft Productivity Score and how it can be used as a tool to measure successful adoption of Microsoft 365 tools. Since the release of the preview there has been a lot of feedback to Microsoft on the individual user tracking functionality in the tool. It is …
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A key component of the Office 365 service for a long time has been the Data-Loss Prevention (DLP) tools. With the extremely powerful sharing and collaboration features available through tools like SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams and Exchange Online, protecting sensitive data is key to allowing users to safely share data with partners and customers. The productivity …
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Previously I've written about how we can use Azure Key Vault and PIM Groups as a secure password management solution. Something I didn't cover at the time is the requirement in large environments to rotate passwords regularly. To achieve this rotation, we can leverage Azure Logic Apps to trigger email requests to rotate keys. The …
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The Microsoft 365 Compliance Portal has a huge amount of nice features which can be used with cloud services. I've previously posted about the new Compliance Manager tool and how it can help to assess the controls in place in the tenancy while also recommending improvements. There are also tools such as DLP, Unified Labelling …
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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 …
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In a previous post I went though how we can use Project Oakdale to create some pretty flexible apps in Microsoft Teams. The platform which allows for a subset of the CDS functionality to be used inside of Microsoft Teams has just gone GA! With the GA release, we've also got a new name. In …
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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 …
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