Guest access in Microsoft Teams is one of the best features for B2B collaboration available. It allows us to securely bring external users into Microsoft Teams for IM, Calling, meetings and file collaboration. This is distinct from Federation, where we message and share files with external users directly. As announced in Microsoft Major Change Notification …
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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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B2B Collaboration in the Microsoft Cloud is an extremely powerful feature allowing access to data and applications for almost any identity. There are multiple scenarios where a Guest invitation can be sent to external users and depending on their specific setup, the invitation is handled in a variety of ways. The below flow from Microsoft …
With the amazing uptake of Microsoft Teams in the corporate space over the past few years, Microsoft has been working hard to define a free, personal version of the collaboration platform. Launching first on mobile devices earlier this year, the home and family version of Microsoft Teams brings the power and learnings made in the …
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I've previously posted a PowerShell script I put together to report the file and folder structure in OneDrive. This script used PowerShell and Graph API to loop through all files and folders and output the information to a CSV. I've recently had a requirement to add to that script, I didn't just need the file …
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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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As an MSP, CSP, general IT Service Provider or even a regular IT department, we generate a huge number of login credentials for different systems to keep everything running. While it is best practice to maintain a single source of identity using LDAP integrations, ADFS and delegation, sometimes the systems we work with don't support …
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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