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Re: Identity Protection alerts now available in Microsoft 365 Defender
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity Protection alerts are now part of Microsoft 365 Defender. Identity compromise is a pivotal component in any successful attack. By taking control over a legitimate organizational account, attackers gain the ability to move around the network, access organizational resources, and compromise more accounts.
Re: Public Preview: “Default” label for a document library in SharePoint Online
Before I describe the "how" let me describe the "why" first. Today, compliance admin can set a "default" label for users. Within Microsoft, we have a default label called "General" that is published to all employees. While this approach serves the purpose of labeling documents in a generic way but does not help in distinguishing a highly sensitive document from a low sensitive document "unless" the user labels the document manually.
Re: Azure Information Protection and the Information Protection Modernization Journey
Microsoft Purview’s goal is to provide a built-in, intelligent, unified, and extensible solution to protect sensitive data across your digital estate. This includes Microsoft clouds such as Microsoft 365 and Azure, as well as on-premises, hybrid and third-party clouds, and SaaS applications. With Microsoft Purview Information Protection, we are building a unified set of capabilities for data classification, labeling, and protection for our customers’ multi-cloud and multi-platform IT landscape.
Introducing Microsoft Teams Real-time Call Quality Analytics
Nov 01 2021 09:50 PM With the release of Real-Time Call Quality Analytics (RTA) to public preview September 30th, Microsoft Teams is now able to provide real-time call quality statistics for scheduled meetings in a centralized administrative console, something that has never previously been available in prior iterations of Microsoft meeting platforms. Situations can arise where immediate analysis of a scheduled meeting is required and waiting until it has concluded is not an option.
New Surface Management Portal available now
Oct 28 2021 07:59 AM Built into Microsoft Endpoint Manager, the new Surface Management Portal provides a centralized solution to self-serve, manage and monitor Surface devices at scale. We designed the portal to meet the changing needs of the modern hybrid workplace and streamline the management of corporate and personally owned Surface devices.
New Surface Management Portal launches today
Oct 28 2021 07:59 AM Built into Microsoft Endpoint Manager, the new Surface Management Portal provides a centralized solution to self-serve, manage and monitor Surface devices at scale. We designed the portal to meet the changing needs of the modern hybrid workplace and streamline the management of corporate and personally owned Surface devices.
Upcoming API Deprecations in Exchange Web Services for Exchange Online
Oct 05 2021 10:05 AM Over the last few years, we have invested heavily in Microsoft Graph to enable developers to access the rich data available inMicrosoft 365. Microsoft Graph, along with OAuth 2.0, provides increased security and seamless integration with other Microsoft cloud services. In August 2018, weannouncedthat we were no longer going to actively invest in Exchange Web Services (EWS) APIs for Exchange Online.
Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - September 2021 Update
Sep 23 2021 02:55 PM In February 2021, we announced some changes to our plan for turning off Basic Authentication in Exchange Online. In summary, we announced we were postponing disabling Basic Auth for protocols in active use by your tenant until further notice, but that we would continue to disable Basic Auth for all protocols not being used.
Deprecation of the classic Exchange admin center in WW service
Sep 09 2021 06:42 AM A few months back, we announced the general availability of the new Exchange admin center (EAC). The new EAC offers a faster, more secure, and more intelligent modern admin experience than the classic EAC and is helping admins work more efficiently. With the new EAC providing the majority of admin capabilities, today we are at the next stage of our journey, and we are announcing the retirement of the classic EAC in our WW deployment, to be fully deprecated by September 2022.
Announcing General Availability of the new Exchange admin center
Apr 27 2021 08:35 PM The new Exchange admin center (EAC) is a modern, accessible, web-based management portal for managing Exchange Online that is based on the Microsoft 365 admin center experience. The new EAC is simple and accessible, and it enables you perform tasks like restoring mailboxes, migrating data, and much more. Since entering Public Preview in June 2020, over half a million admins around the world have used it.
Search, Sort, and Filter for Conditional Access is now in public preview!
Howdy folks, I’m happy to announce the public preview of search, sort, and filter for policies in the Azure Portal. This has been one of top requests in the Azure AD feedback forum, and will make it much easier to manage your policies. Vikas Deora, a Program Manager in the Identity division, drove this exciting work and his guest blog below will take you through the highlights. As always, please share your feedback in the comments below or reach out to the team with any questions.
Bringing OneDrive settings into SharePoint admin center for streamlined, centralized control
Jan 26 2021 09:00 AM OneDrive and SharePoint surpassed over 200 million monthly active users in 2020. This was an exciting development for us highlighting a key trend, consistent over the last few years and especially this past year, that the need for content collaboration is becoming more and more predominant for all organizations.
Log Analytics Workspace Design Gotchas
Hello Folks, Lately I’ve had a few conversations regarding Log Analytics workspace design. More specifically, questions like: Do I create one central workspace with all data? Should I create one workspace per application? Should each team have their own workspace? Design conundrum Figuring out how many workspaces, you need is determined by one or more of the following requirements: Which region do you need to store the data; do you have data sovereignty or compliance issues we need to comply with?
It's Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication
11-10-2020 09:00 AM In my blog Your Pa$$word doesn't matter, I laid out the key password vulnerabilities, and in response to a gazillion “but other creds can be compromised, too” DMs and emails, I wrote All our creds are belong to us, where I outlined vulnerabilities in credentials other than passwords and highlighted the promise of passwordless, cryptographically protected creds like FIDO, Windows Hello, and the Authenticator App.
Biometrics - Keep Your Fingers Close
05-26-2020 11:00 AM Here’s a common customer question, especially in manufacturing, government-to-citizen, and kiosk scenarios: “ I want a system where my user can walk up to any system, then scan a fingerprint (or look at a camera, or speak into a mic, or …) and just be magically logged in.” Walking up to a new-to-your machine and logging in with just a fingerprint or a smile is certainly a very appealing scenario – nothing to buy, manage, or lose; no phishing or re-use problems, no issues...
How to configure the new Room Finder in Outlook
Did you hear of room lists? What is a room list? A room list is a collection of room mailboxes. Room lists are specially marked distribution groups that you can also use the same way you use ‘regular’ distribution groups. You can only create room lists using the Exchange Management Shell. This article goes over how to create a room list in Exchange. We highly recommend defining room lists to mirror your building layouts, so that the room finder works best.
Securing Authenticated SMTP in Exchange Online
The SMTP AUTH protocol is used to submit millions of emails every day. The majority of the clients connecting to Exchange Online like this are devices such as multi-function printers or some piece of software that send automated emails. Email clients such as Outlook rarely use this protocol anymore and instead make use of other protocols secured with Modern Authentication (OAuth).
Top 5 things that Office 365 admins should know about FindTime
04-08-2020 09:00 AM Now that we have re-written the backend for FindTime to get into the Office 365 compliance boundary, here are 5 useful tips to help you manage it in your organization. You can deploy FindTime to everyone in your organization From the Exchange admin center, admins can install the FindTime add-in to their entire org. Open the EAC portal. Go to Organization > Apps. Select New +. Select the location to install from Add from the Office Store: Select FindTime > Add.
SMB over QUIC: Files Without the VPN
03-02-2020 12:01 AM Hi folks, Ned Pyle guest-posting today about SMB over QUIC, a game-changer coming to Windows, Windows Server, and Azure Files. In today’s world, SMB file share access for mobile users requires expensive & complex VPNs. Departments trying to use Azure Files often find their ISP has blocked port 445. Even though users are just as likely to be deskless and organizations are doing more hybrid computing than ever, SMB hasn’t kept up. That’s all changing with SMB over QUIC.
Improving Security - Together
Sep 20 2019 07:00 AM Update: For latest on this subject, please see Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – April 2020 Update. For many years, client apps have used Basic Authentication to connect to servers, services and endpoints. It is enabled by default on most servers and services and it’s super simple to set up. Basic Authentication simply means the application sends a username and password with every request (often stored or saved on the device).
Re: Cloud backup and recovery for the Microsoft Authenticator app on Android now available
Howdy folks, I’m excited to announce that cloud backup and recovery for the Microsoft Authenticator app on Android is now available. This means Android users can now back up their account credentials to the cloud, and then easily and securely transfer them to a new device when needed. Try it out! If you don’t have the Microsoft Authenticator app yet, see Use Microsoft Authenticator with Office 365 for information on how to download and set up the app.
Tips on PowerShell Modules for Managing Stale Devices
Hi All, Alan here PFE from Italy, trying to give some little tips on how to install the correct PS module in order to use the required cmdlets for Stale Device Management. The article explaining this is: How To: Manage stale devices in Azure AD: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/manage-stale-devices One day you might wonder why you have all those stale devices in your AzureAD.
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