A very popular attack upon breached email accounts since the forwarding feature became available is for the attacker to create a auto-forwarding rule in the users mailbox to essentialy receive a copy of all mail that is sent to that account. This forwarding is extremely quick to set up and not easily found as most …
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Segregation of admin roles in Microsoft 365 has always been a challenge. Different admin roles help to apply the principal of least privilege for admins but there was always an issue where multiple logical groupings existed in a single tenant. They are not always managed globally and not every admin should have access to every …
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Office 365 ATP is a fantastic tool for protecting Office 365 users from threats such as spam, phishing and malicious content. A lot of the time, as consultants, the initial set up of these policies is pretty similar from customer to customer with some potential change on granular items such as thresholds and actions. Often …
Merging and splitting Office 365 data from tenant to tenant is becoming more and more common recently as the platform grows and more organizations are stepping down on-premise systems in favor of leveraging cloud services for mail and collaboration. A cornerstone of Microsoft's cloud offering is Exchange Online, which has been active now for more …
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Implementing Privileged Access Management on Server 2016/2019: Part 1 – Setting up the Privileged Domain Implementing Privileged Access Management on Server 2016/2019: Part 2 – Installing and Configuring SharePoint Server 2016 for Microsoft identity Manager In part three of this blog series, I will go through the steps to deploy the MIM/PAM server to host …
Last week Microsoft announced the release of Exchange Server 2019 - Preview. This is the first version of Exchange to be compatible with Windows Server Core. Other new features include a revamped search service leveraging Bing search and improvements to the Exchange Online Hybrid functionality along with further performance optimizations to the database engine. Updates …
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