This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. Once we have AD Connect installed and configured, it's important to monitor the synchronization service for errors. There are a variety of errors we can experience when running AD Connect and to understand …
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This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. Microsoft 365, like most technologies, relies heavily on Identity. Maintaining a directory of users, passwords and metadata is key to the operation of business applications. Azure Active Directory is the Identity Provider (IdP) …
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This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here For this section of the study guide, we will look at how to plan Azure AD authentication. There are multiple ways to process authentication in Azure AD / Microsoft 365. In order …
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Microsoft certification is a great way to validate your skills in a particular area. With many organizations seeking official certification as a prerequisite for a particular role, it's a fantastic time to dive into the certification paths Microsoft have available. For experienced Microsoft 365 Administrators, the MS-500 exam (Microsoft 365 Security Administration) is a fantastic …
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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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TLS has been has been the standard for secure mail transmission for a long time and you'd be hard pressed to find an organization that doesn't use it. With Exchange Online, we use opportunistic TLS by default, this means that if we can use TLS, we will - but if not, we won't. Generally for …
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I love when we can use different technologies and tools together to create something that really brings value to the table. A lot of the time with Microsoft 365, for a task that is not solved by an Out of the Box solution, the Graph API can tie everything together for us in some really …
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Microsoft has some cool tools for Guest user management. Implementing Access Reviews for example is great for ensuring expiration of Guest access when needed. We can also control who can invite Guests and which domains we allow Guests from. When this is all set up we have some really great governance over our B2B strategy …
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After what seems like forever, one of the most requested features of Microsoft Teams, Breakout Rooms is finally rolling out. Over the next few weeks, if they don't have it already, users will see a new meeting joining experience and Breakout Rooms will be available to use in both Team and ad-hoc meetings in Teams. …
I recently had a requirement to include Planner instances in a tenant to tenant migration I was carrying out. The options for Planner migration are few and far between and the tooling we had in place was only scoped to migrate data. After some investigation, it was a job for Microsoft Graph API. I've begun …
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