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Exchange Online Rejects Old TLS Connections in January 2021

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Time to Make Final Checks It’s natural to take time off during the holiday season to forget about the woes of IT operations. One of the nice things about using a service like Office 365 is that other people take care of running it while you’re away. On the downside, decisions made by the people…

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Microsoft is Bringing an ‘Approval’ Workflow Feature to Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced a new ‘Approvals’ feature for Teams that will make receiving approvals easier.

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Marking Office 365 Documents and Email as Formal Records

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft released a report in late October to demonstrate how well Microsoft 365 meets the compliance needs of the financial sector subject to U.S. regulations. The level of inaccuracy in the text meant that I didn’t think much of the report. In any case, the report placed great emphasis on two developments. The first was…

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How to Monitor Network Activity Using Windows 10 Packet Monitor (PKTMON)

Last Update: May 08, 2025

Learn how to debug network issues in Windows 10 and Windows Server with PacketMon.

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Understanding and Exploring Continuous Access Evaluation for Azure Active Directory

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Reducing the time that security tokens remain valid negatively affects the end-user experience. CAE is designed to address the problem.

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How to Automatically Unlock BitLocker Protected Devices Connected to Wired Networks

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Network Unlock allows devices connected to a wired network to automatically unlock BitLocker-protected OS drives.

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Meeting Reactions Arrive in Teams in January

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Back in July, Microsoft announced a slew of features that would be coming to the Teams meeting experience. While some of the functionality, like Together Mode, has arrived, there are other features that are still outstanding. One of those features is “reactions” in Meetings and Microsoft is now saying that this feature will start to…

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Yammer Previews Support for Azure B2B Collaboration

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

On December 15, Microsoft announced the preview of Yammer support for guest user access through Azure B2B Collaboration. Yammer joins Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, SharePoint Online, and Planner as the mainline Microsoft 365 applications supporting guest access. Yammer’s External Collaboration Journey Guest access first appeared in Office 365 Groups in September 2016. At the time,…

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How to Push Data via PowerShell to PowerBI

Last Update: Jun 04, 2025

PowerBI has quickly become a top platform for data analytics within the Office 365 set of applications. With the ability to consume data from a variety of sources, manipulate, visualize, and publish that data, PowerBI stands out as an easy to use and powerful data visualization platform. With the ability to utilize PowerShell as a…

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Microsoft Illustrates the Breadth and Depth of the SolarWinds Hack

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Unless you have been hiding under an air-gapped rock, the entire computing industry was set on fire this week with the announcement that SolarWinds platform had been compromised.

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How to Copy Active Directory Groups from One User to Another with PowerShell

Last Update: May 24, 2025

Use PowerShell to create consistent user objects in Active Directory.

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How to Audit and Test Windows 10 Controlled Folder Access

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Audit and test Microsoft Defender Controlled Folder Access to help protect your organization against ransomware.

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