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GitLab Data Loss Lessons for Office 365 Customers
In late January of this year GitLab, a Git repository and source-code management service similar to GitHub, suffered the permanent loss of some customer data. As reported by The Register: Behind the...
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First Steps: Securing Office 365 Administrator Accounts with Multi-Factor...
When you sign up a new Office 365 tenant a Global Admin account is created for you. This Global Admin account, and any other admin accounts you create later on, are highly privileged, powerful accounts...
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Exchange Server Error: An Incomplete Installation Was Detected
I ran into an interesting issue while I was removing an Exchange 2016 server from an environment. The uninstall process failed on step 5 of 13 and threw an error. The error itself is not all that...
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Migrating Azure AD Connect to a New Server
For organizations that are using synchronized identities for Office 365, the directory synchronization tool of choice these days is Azure AD Connect. To keep AAD Connect running you may eventually have...
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Does Office 365 Secure Score Help Detect Hackers and Intrusions?
In an email from a reader I was asked about Office 365 Secure Score and whether it will help their organization to know when hackers have gained access to their Office 365 data. The short answer is no,...
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Using CompleteAfter to Manage Automatic Completion of Mailbox Move Requests
When Exchange Server 2010 brought us the miracle of online mailbox moves there was much rejoicing, for it meant no longer burdening our users with lengthy outages while their mailboxes were moved....
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Multi-Factor Authentication Adoption: Are You One of the 55%?
Last week I ran a survey asking about multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption. Of the hundreds of responses I had actually thought that we would see a clear majority adopting MFA. After all, we all...
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Microsoft is Changing the Groups Behavior to Stop Senders Receiving a Copy of...
A new notification appeared in my Message Center email digest to let me know that Microsoft is rolling out a change to the behavior of Office 365 Groups. We have recently fixed the email sending...
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Simplifying Office 365 License Control with Azure AD Group-Based License...
Managing the allocation of Office 365 licenses has been a pain point for many customers. For smaller tenants with simple requirements, the allocation of licensing can either be handled manually on an...
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What’s New in Office 365 for February 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection Dynamic Delivery Behavior with...
In January of this year Microsoft added two new features to Advanced Threat Protection for Exchange Online. One of the new features, called Dynamic Delivery, provides an additional option that...
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Exchange Server 2007 is About to Reach End of Life – What’s Your Plan?
On April 11th this year, Exchange Server 2007 will reach the end of its support lifecycle, otherwise known as end-of-life. For customers still running Exchange Server 2007, you should start making...
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Time to Prepare for Microsoft Teams General Availability
On March 14th Microsoft will be making Teams generally available for Office 365 customers. Before then, you should review your Teams configuration to make sure that you’re ready. If you’re planning to...
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Migrate Home Drives to OneDrive for Business
One of the wins for Office 365 customers who have OneDrive for Business included in their licensing is to migrate users’ personal files to OneDrive. For files that are stored in home drives on...
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Deploying the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client
Microsoft Teams is now generally available for Office 365 customers, and for those of you who are planning to use it you may be looking for a way to deploy the Teams client to your user’s computers....
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How Secure is Sending Emails to Microsoft Teams Channels?
One of the features of Microsoft Teams is the ability to send email to Team channels. When a channel receives an email, a new discussion thread is started, and the Team members can discuss the topic...
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How Important Are Important Security Updates?
I’ve seen a lot of customer environments that have a Microsoft security patching policy that could be summarized as: Critical patches deployed ASAP Everything else can wait The idea is that the most...
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Making Sense of Automatic Group Creation in Office 365
Last week a new message appeared in Message Center to let Office 365 customers know about an upcoming change: To help managers collaborate more effectively with their employees, we will automatically...
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March 2017 Updates Released for Exchange Server
Microsoft has announced the latest round of quarterly updates for all supported versions of Exchange Server. Cumulative Update 5 for Exchange Server 2016 (download | UM language packs) Cumulative...
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Help Shape the Fourth Edition of Office 365 for IT Pros
As announced earlier this month, work has begun on the fourth edition of Office 365 for IT Pros. For those of you who are not familiar with the history of this book, here’s a quick summary. The first...
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