Azure AD Group Role Assignment is a great new preview feature that provides a lot of flexibility and governance to assigning admin roles in Azure AD / Office 365. When combined with Privileged Identity Managements new Privileged Access Groups (Preview) feature, we can begin to set up a really slick permission eligibility structure that is …
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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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With the 'evergreen' nature of Microsoft Cloud services, we get a constant stream of new features and fixes that could never be matched in an on premises environment. The technical change itself would take up way too much time to plan, implement and support. Many organizations are still running legacy, out of support versions of …
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (or Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection if you're old fashioned) is an amazing toolset for securing your Office 365 environment with some extremely powerful features. Previously, I have written about the built in Preset Security Policies that Microsoft have recently made available. These policies help to provide a baseline for …
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As Microsoft work to finish the move to Microsoft Edge, the new version of Edge that is, more and more services are becoming unsupported on Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 11 is now considered by Microsoft to be a legacy browser and all efforts for functionality and supportability are going into Microsoft Edge (Edge Chromium) going …
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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The built in controls in Azure AD for Guest User invitations are great for most cases. You can lock down guest invitations to specific users or groups and even specific recipient domains. When we look at more highly secure tenancies however, we often see requirements for approval flows or custom workflows to be associated with …
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A feature that has been missing for a long time in Microsoft Exchange, and something a lot of Exchange Admins may not have even known existed, is the concept of "Plus Addressing". Plus addressing essentially allows an additional 'tag' to be added to a sent email, this 'tag' or 'plus address' helps provide context around …
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As announced last year by Microsoft, Office 365 support for Office 2013 is ending very soon. From October 12th 2020, the Office 2013 suite will no longer be directly supported for use with Office 365. What does this mean? Essentially, the end of support for Office 2013 does not mean that Office 2013 will stop …
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