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Using Office 365 Sensitivity Labels with Teams, Groups, and Sites

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Office 365 Sensitivity Labels can now be applied to “containers” – Teams, Office 365 Groups, and SharePoint sites. Sensitivity labels replace the old text-only classifications that have been available since 2016. The labels don’t affect the contents of the containers, but they can control some container settings, like whether a team allows guest access or if it’s open to any tenant user to join. It’s yet another development in the label and protection story for Office 365.

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How to Audit LDAP Signing in an Active Directory Domain

Last Update: Jun 06, 2025

Microsoft is planning to make changes to LDAP security settings in Windows Server. In today’s Ask the Admin, I show you how to audit for unsigned LDAP traffic hitting Windows Server Active Directory.

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A Note to Our Fellow IT Pros

To those who have been working 24×7 to keep the networks alive, who imaged 100s of laptops, issued security tokens, and have been looking at health metrics for your environment as they inch closer to failing-over, thank you.

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How to Enable Security Defaults in Azure Active Directory

Last Update: May 24, 2025

Microsoft is gradually introducing multifactor authentication (MFA) for all organizational accounts in Azure Active Directory. In this article, I look at the new Security Defaults setting and how to enable it.

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CVE-2020-0688 Puts Focus on Exchange On-Premises Vulnerabilities

The revelations that Exchange Server has had a vulnerability in the Exchange Control Panel since Exchange 2010 shocked some. Microsoft has patched CVE-2020-0688, but the problem gives on-premises administrators something to think about as they look to the long-term future of their email service. Staying on-premises is an option, but going to the cloud might be more secure.

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How FIDO2 Passwordless Logins Work in Hybrid Azure AD Environments

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is expanding support for passwordless logins to devices that are hybrid joined to Azure AD domains. In this article, I explain how FIDO2 security keys work in hybrid Azure AD environments.

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Understanding Windows App Installer

Windows App Installer was first introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) to make sideloading UWP apps easier. Since then, Microsoft has gradually been improving App Installer to provide most of the features found in the Microsoft Store. In this article, I look at how App Installer has developed and how it fits into the bigger picture.

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How to Manage GIT with PowerShell 7 and Posh-GIT

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you haven’t heard of Posh-GIT, it is a great module for assisting in managing your GIT repositories from within PowerShell. There is so much functionality in GIT that it can be hard, especially in a PowerShell oriented way, to use that functionality effectively. Using Posh-GIT, you are able to interact easily with GIT using…

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On-Premises Exchange Not Going Away Just Yet

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A Microsoft employee commented that Exchange 2019 is the last on-premises version, something that would bring the era of Exchange to a close after 25 or so years. Perhaps that’s the case, and certainly there’s been a huge transition of email workload to Exchange Online. But is an opinion expressed by a single Microsoft employee enough to tell us what will happen over the next few years?

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Understanding User Settings and Data Synchronization in Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

How account synchronization works in the new version of Microsoft Edge.

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