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It was a busy month for Office 365 updates but these are the items you need to know about.

November has come and gone but for those looking to catch-up on Azure, here’s what you need to know.

Intrusive Usage Data Exposed in Microsoft 365 Admin Center Over the past few week or so, a bunch of news reports have emerged about the new Microsoft 365 Productivity Score feature (Figure 1), which was announced at the Ignite 2019 conference before achieving general availability in October 2020. In the Microsoft blog, CVP Brad Anderson…

Most organizations have finally been convinced about the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their essential workloads. That’s due in a big part to the fact that almost everyone in IT is all too familiar with Murphy’s Law that states if something can go wrong it will go wrong and…

One of the things that is rather powerful about Azure Storage is that there are a number of different offerings. Azure Blob Storage has three tiers that should be very familiar Hot, Cool, and Archive.

SMS and Voice MFA Methods in Microsoft’s Crosshairs On November 10 Alex Weinert, the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, posted It’s Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication. The article argues that it’s time to consider dumping the SMS and voice methods for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in favor of passwordless strong authentication…

PowerShell offers native cmdlets that allow you to quickly search for just what you want to find in the Windows Event Log. The ability to filter results and return just what is needed helps to focus your troubleshooting efforts in just the right place.

The Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets are exceptionally useful tools to both export data for consumption to other applications and to retrieve and import information from third-party data sources.

How Microsoft Advises Tenants About New Features During a recent discussion, I was asked why Microsoft seems to publish so many incorrect roll-out dates for new Teams features. While my gut feel was that it certainly seems like some Teams features are delayed, some evidence was needed to prove or disprove the case. When Microsoft…

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