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GET-IT Practitioners Guide to Ignite is Happening Today

Petri’s GET-IT Practitioners Guide to Ignite is designed to help keep you updated on the key announcements from Microsoft’s second virtual installment of their largest IT Pro conference.

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How to Set an Out of Office Message in Teams

Last Update: Jun 07, 2025

Here is the simple way to set an out of office message using Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Lists – An Evolution of SharePoint Lists

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Welcome to SharePoint Lists! – At least that’s how Microsoft likely worded their introduction back in 2001 (Wow!). The purpose of this post is to give a little background on what a SharePoint List is, the evolution over the years to the newer ‘Modern List’ in mid-to-late 2016, and the announcement of the new Microsoft…

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Best Practices for Deploying BitLocker with Intune

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

To protect data at rest on your Intune-managed Windows devices, BitLocker disk encryption can be applied automatically using the BitLocker CSP.  If you are deploying devices with Autopilot, this will also allow you to encrypt them at the time of deployment.  Existing devices will be encrypted as soon as the device checks in with Intune…

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HAFNIUM Highlights the Problem with Removing the Last Exchange Server

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last week, you could not have missed that the Microsoft 365 world has been abuzz with worry after Exchange Server 2010-2019 succumbed to zero-day exploits, believed to being used by a group known as HAFNIUM. These exploits are allowing an attacker to compromise Exchange and…

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Getting Started with Microsoft 365 Groups

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you are getting started with Microsoft 365 groups, here’s an introduction to how the tool works and how to setup a group.

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Rumors of Windows Server’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

I am frequently left somewhere between amused and exasperated when reading a statement that Windows Server is “dead” or listen to an industry commentator question the release of Windows Server.

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How to Turn Off Cortana Daily Briefing Emails

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you do not want to receive the Cortana Daily Briefing email for yourself, your tenant, or a group of users – this is how you turn that off.

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How to Configure BitLocker Auto Unlock

Last Update: Aug 05, 2025

BitLocker is a full-disk encryption tool that is built-in to Windows 10. Full disk encryption prevents someone who gets physical access to a disk from reading the data stored on it.

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How to Enable Passwordless Authentication with Azure AD

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference, which ran March 2nd – 4th 2021, that passwordless authentication is now generally available. Microsoft has been pushing passwordless over the past couple of years as a more secure way to provide access than passwords and multifactor authentication. Now that passwordless authentication is generally available, organizations can roll out…

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