Study Guide Series: Exam MS-500 – Plan Azure AD Synchronization Options

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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Exchange Online Native Tenant to Tenant Migrations (Preview)

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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Bring Yammer into Microsoft Teams with the Communities App

The current version of Yammer is almost unrecognizable from the initial release years back. It really has earned it's place in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as an enterprise grade communication tool right alongside Teams and SharePoint. As part of a digital transformation project, there are tons of use cases for Yammer and when used correctly, …

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Managing Office 365 Integrated Apps From The Admin Center

For all the cool features of Office 365 and the Office suite, there are always use cases for third party integrations. These apps provide an extension to the Office platform and add some specific functionality that might not be something that Microsoft can, or want to deliver to the entire platform. These apps are hosted …

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Protect Corporate Data Within Windows 10 Apps With Windows Information Protection

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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Coming Soon: Expiration For Guest User Access To SharePoint Online / OneDrive Documents

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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Azure AD Group Role Assignment – Exchange Online Access Denied

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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How To Use Microsoft 365 Productivity Score To Drive Digital Transformation

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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Keeping Up With Change: Planning For Microsoft Teams Public Preview

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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