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Activity Explorer Highlights Label Activities In June 2020, I covered Microsoft’s “Know Your Data” initiative, essentially the introduction of a bunch of new features in the Data classification section of the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Requiring Office 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 (or E5 compliance) licenses, Microsoft targets this functionality at large enterprises who…

Microsoft introduced Secure Shell (SSH) as a transport for PowerShell Remoting in PowerShell 6. Older versions of PowerShell (Windows PowerShell) are restricted to HTTP/HTTPS and Windows Remote Management (WinRM). WinRM/HTTP is fine for Active Directory (AD) environments. Authentication and communications are secured. WinRM/HTTPS is for accessing workgroup computers, i.e. computers not joined to an AD…

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a management infrastructure built-in to Windows for querying management and operations data. It can be used to query local and remote computers for information like running processes, installed software, BIOS information, and much more using tools like Get-CimInstance. WMI vs CIM WMI is based on the Common Information Model (CIM),…

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that will alert you if a phishing link or malware is delivered to a mailbox because of a policy exception.

Delve: Exposing Permission Weaknesses Since 2015 Since its introduction in 2015, people have complained that Delve exposed documents to other users that they’d prefer not to share. In fact, the problem lies with poor permissions practice rather than Delve because Delve only ever shows information to a user which they are entitled to see. In…

There are lots of ways that you can remotely manage Windows devices. But some of them require direct network connectivity to the remote devices.

Microsoft has done well to ensure that Teams provides a consistent experience across the desktop client, web browser, or mobile apps. However, the web version of Teams lacks several desktop features for meetings, in particular the ability to see the video feed for more than one person at a time. New features are launching in…

The Duo has a place in this world if you are looking for a modern-PDA and a device that embodies Microsoft 365 in a physical form, but it is far from a smartphone that is for everyone.

When you need to store data in a structured format that can be extended upon, or in a more ordered fashion, PSCustomObject is the tool for the job.

In this article, I show you how to use PowerShell splatting to make your code more readable.