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PowerShell Gems That Every Microsoft 365 Administrator Should Know About

As an IT Professional, can you survive without PowerShell? I can imagine there are several debates around this topic on Reddit right now. The short answer is yes, you probably can (barely). However, keeping PowerShell as your go-to tool on your IT Pro toolbelt will bring you varying productivity and efficiency boosts. Quite simply, the…

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How To Select the Correct Azure Storage Service for Your Operation

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Selecting an Azure Storage Service doesn’t have to be difficult, yet you can take some steps to make sure you make good decisions. In this blog post, Microsoft MVP Rick Vanover provides some of his perspectives and tips to allow you to make the right choices upfront.

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How to Block Adobe Flash Player Using Active Directory Group Policy

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Flash Player is a plug-in for browsers that is installed and maintained separately. Although it came bundled with some browsers. Not only that, but it was responsible for some scary security vulnerabilities over the years. So, developers and IT admins alike were glad to see the back of it.

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Network Security

Protecting Microsoft 365 from Ransomware Attacks with Filewall

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

FileWall for Exchange is designed to work using Microsoft’s Graph API and integrates directly with the service

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How to Access Planner and To Do Content in Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

One of the latest steps in bringing workflows from other Microsoft 365 applications into the native Teams interface is creating an App called ‘Tasks by Planner and To Do’

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Understanding Character Encoding in PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Working with strings in PowerShell is core to many different operations. With strings come the many different encodings that can be used. Learning to manipulate, understand, and use those encodings can make working with documents of different languages and types much easier to do.

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Reactions are Headed to Outlook on the web and Mobile, Shows Promise but Significant Gaps Remain

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you don’t use something often, then you might even forget it exists. When I read that reactions in Outlook are rolling out soon, I had to go and check that the like button, which launched in 2015, still existed in Outlook on the web. The like button still exists and was one of the…

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Security

Understanding Microsoft Defender and its Many Layers

Last Update: Jul 01, 2022

Microsoft Defender has many layers and trying to understand all of the different components can be complex.

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Automate Azure VM Best Practices Configuration Using Azure Automanage

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Azure Automanage helps you to make sure your virtual machines (VM) are consistently configured with Microsoft’s best practice recommendations. And that’s a valuable service because Azure is constantly growing and changing, making it hard for IT professionals to keep up with best practice recommendations. Automanage is currently in preview. It is designed to configure and…

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How to Turn Emails in Outlook Mobile into To Dos

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025

Microsoft has started rolling out a new feature to the Outlook mobile app (iOS & Android) that allows you to create a To Do easily and efficiently from an email.

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