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Interpreting the Office 365 MailItemsAccessed Audit Event

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you have Office 365 E5 licenses, your mailboxes generate MailItemsAccessed events. These events are stored in the Office 365 audit log and can be used for investigating potentially compromised mailboxes. Useful information is in the audit events, but some processing is needed to extract the full benefit. Here’s how to do it with PowerShell.

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Microsoft 365 Communications Compliance Takes New Look at Employee Interaction

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Communications Compliance is a part of Microsoft 365’s Insider Risk functionality. This is a replacement for Office 365 supervision policies and introduces coverage of new communications and a lot of machine learning, plus a link to Advanced eDiscovery for the really complicated cases. Not every Office 365 tenant will be interested in employee monitoring, but those that need to should look at Communications Compliance.

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Taking Advantage of Free AWS Training

Last Update: Jul 31, 2023

If you want to maximize your skills while sitting at home, Amazon has free options available.

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Microsoft is Rebranding Office 365 Groups

Microsoft is going to rebrand Office 365 Groups to Microsoft 365 Groups in the near future.

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Inconsistencies in Microsoft 365 Licensing for Security and Compliance

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

The new licensing guidance for Microsoft 365 security and compliance features is welcome, but as is probably inevitable, some inconsistencies exist that need to be probed and discussed, and hopefully resolved by Microsoft in the long run. Why do DLP policies for Teams need E5 licenses? Why does applying a default retention label to a SharePoint library need E5? There’s lots to discuss about issues Microsoft should fix.

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How to Block TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025

Microsoft announced that it is delaying disabling legacy TLS protocols by default in all its supported browsers.

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Working with Linux Permissions in PowerShell 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

With the introduction of PowerShell Core and now PowerShell 7, the cross-platform capabilities of PowerShell have also brought new challenges. System administrators used to working on Windows systems that now operate cross-platform need to be able to handle permissions in similar ways.

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Moving Groups, Teams, and Sites from Classifications to Sensitivity Labels

Last Update: Jan 21, 2025

Office 365 Sensitivity Labels are supported by Teams, Groups, and Sites, but some work is needed if you want to replace older text-only classification labels with Office 365 Sensitivity Labels. This article explains how to use PowerShell to update Office 365 groups with new sensitivity labels. The labels are then synchronized to teams and sites.

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How Secure is Video Conferencing App Zoom?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There’s been a lot written in the press recently about video conferencing app Zoom. But how bad are Zoom’s security issues?

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Comparing ThreadJob to PSJobs in PowerShell 7 on Linux

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There have always been a few options for running background asynchronous tasks within PowerShell. Traditionally, PowerShell (PS) Jobs was the go to method as a job could be started and then control returned to the console. PS Jobs were always heavy, in regards to resource usage, and depending on what needed to be run, this…

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