Exchange Transport Rules Corrupt On Installing New Exchange Server Version
When you install Exchange Server into an existing Exchange organization, your existing configuration typically remains intact and associated with the previous servers and some configuration, that is...
View ArticleGetting Rid of Passwords in Azure AD / Office 365
This article is based on the public preview of the use of hardware tokens/Microsoft Authenticator to do sign-in without passwords released in July 2019 Using Microsoft Authenticator for Passwordless...
View ArticleMaking Your Office 365 Meeting Rooms Accessible
Or How to Use Set-Place to Configure Your Meeting Rooms or How Wheelchair Users Can Find The Best Meeting Rooms In Your Organization etc. – there are many different titles I can think of for this blog...
View ArticleMFA and End User Impacts
This article will look at the various different MFA settings found in Azure AD (which controls MFA for Office 365 and other SaaS services) and how those decisions impact users. There is lots on the...
View ArticleImpact of Removing SMS As an MFA Method In Azure AD
There are a number of general recommendations that SMS (text messages) as an MFA method is not a good idea (mainly to do with the ease of porting or moving devices the number is associated with). You...
View ArticleBaseline Policy Replacements: Conditional Access MFA for Administrators
From Feb 29th 2020 Microsoft will remove the “baseline policies” from Azure AD. These were very useful in the past to enable blanket settings like MFA for all admin accounts (well, selected admin...
View ArticleBlocking Apps With a Low Reputation
One of the benefits of Microsoft 365 is the interaction across many products and features to create services that otherwise you might not have available to you or need to implement unrelated and...
View ArticleMFA, Admin Roles and AADConnect Sync Failures
Come Feb 29th 2020 and Microsoft are turning off the baseline security policies. If you used these policies to do MFA for all admins (as that was an easy way to achieve this), then a replacement...
View ArticleOffice ATP Safe Documents
This is a new feature in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 2 in addition to Safe Attachments. Safe Documents at the time of writing is only available in US based Office 365 tenants and only...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams Live Events For Running a Church Service
Or, how to run a Microsoft Teams Live Event with average technical capability presenters, or how to run a Microsoft Teams Live Event for events that you would not normally consider this service for! So...
View ArticleDeploying Zoom Add-In To All Outlook Users
With the sudden change in working practices, a (large) number of companies has start to use Zoom as their video conferencing software. Though this software is not from Microsoft, that does not stop an...
View ArticleWhy is the Text in my Teams Background Back To Front
With Teams (and Zoom, and probably other video conferencing apps) as well as apps that add to the live camera image such Chromacam and Snap Camera in popular use, you might have noticed that all the...
View ArticleForce Mailbox Migration With Bad Items To Complete (2020)
It used to be easy to complete an Exchange Server > Exchange Online move request that had bad items, but this has changed recently. In the last short while Move Requests (and Migration Batches) have...
View ArticleFree Web Content Filtering With Microsoft Defender ATP
Well free as in you need an MDATP licence first, but as this used to be an add on feature on top of MDATP with an additional cost, this is now effectively free once you are licensed for MDATP. The...
View ArticleWhat Is The Value of enrollmentProfileName
In Microsoft EndPoint Manager there are a few different device registration scenarios that make use of a property called device.enrollmentProfileName. To find and apply other settings (apps, config,...
View ArticleMail Flow To The Correct Exchange Online Connector
In a multi-forest Exchange Server/Exchange Online (single tenant) configuration, you are likely to have multiple inbound connectors to receive email from the different on-premises environments. There...
View ArticleEnable EOP Enhanced Filtering for Mimecast Users
Enhanced Filtering is a feature of Exchange Online Protection (EOP) that allows EOP to skip back through the hops the messages has been sent through to work out the original sender. Take for example a...
View ArticleReporting on MTA-STS Failures
This article is a follow up to the Enabling Better Mail Flow Security for Exchange Online which discusses setting up MTA-STS and in this article we cover the reporting for MTA-STS. To get daily reports...
View ArticleEnabling Better Mail Flow Security for Exchange Online
At Microsoft Ignite 2020, Microsoft announced support for MTA-STS, or Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security. This is covered in RFC 8461 and it includes making TLS for mail flow to your domains...
View ArticleMicrosoft 365 From A Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer
So my new computer arrived today, its a keyboard and a few cables, and as my first computer was a ZX Spectrum when I was 14, this brings back a few memories. But, is it usable today with services such...
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