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Decrypting SharePoint Online Documents with PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 18, 2025

Great to Protect Content Until Access is Needed The growing popularity of sensitivity labels is goodness if you simply look at the desirability of protecting confidential information. However, the presence of a larger percentage of encrypted data within Office 365 creates some addition management challenges. As I have noted during several conference talks, the only…

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SharePoint Usage Explodes in 2020, Adds 100 Million Monthly Users

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Today, the company is updating that figure and the growth has been substantial. In a blog post penned by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, he states that the number of active monthly SharePoint cloud users has doubled to 200 million.

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How Azure AD and a Load Balancer Can Simplify App Delivery

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This post was sponsored by Kemp Microsoft’s offering in the single sign-on space for several years has been Azure Active Directory, which serves as the underlying directory service for Microsoft 365. This service is also widely used as the SSO and provisioning service compatible with most third-party SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many more.   In a surprising turnaround from…

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Microsoft to Turn on Guest Access in Teams by Default

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is making a change to Guest default settings but you likely do not have much to worry about.

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No Way to Stop Gathering Data Used by Productivity Score

Microsoft Graph and Audit Log Too Important to Lose Thinking about the fuss and bother which erupted over Microsoft Productivity Score, I concluded that the people concerned about management oversight of user activity within Microsoft 365 had very little knowledge about the topic. They looked at the pretty graphs and tables of user data and…

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Microsoft Begins Rollout of Breakout Rooms for Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you want to use breakout rooms with Teams, there is good news and not-so-good news.

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How to Use PowerShell Calculated Properties

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Manipulate PowerShell object output using calculated properties.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: December 4 2020

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it’s the most wonderful time of a less than wonderful year, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s 2020 holiday commercial, Salesforce wastes $27.7 billion, Microsoft’s controversy of the week, 1100 new Teams features, yet another way to update Windows 10, and so much more.

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AWS Launches re:Invent 2020 with new MacOS Support

Starting on Monday, November 30th, and running for the next three weeks, Amazon has launched its annual AWS re:Invent conference. In most years the conference spans several different properties in Las Vegas and runs over the course of a few days. Last year’s re:Invent conference had over 60,000 attendees. This year, like all of the…

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Microsoft Releases Machine-Learning Backed Password Spray Attack Detection

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

New machine-learning backed password spray attack detection spots twice the number of compromised accounts.

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Teams Previews Personal Features for Desktop and Browser Clients

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Following Personal Support in Teams Mobile Clients On November 19, just before things started to wind down for the Thanksgiving holidays, Microsoft announced the preview of “personal” features in the Teams desktop and browser clients. Preview availability for personal features on desktop (Windows only) and browsers follows up the debut of Teams at home for…

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Rich in Microsoft History, Salesforce to Acquire Slack

SalesForce has announced that it will be buying Slack for $27.7 billion – a 28x Net Twelve Months Revenue. To do this, Salesforce will be paying $26.79 in cash + 0.0776 shares of common stock for each share of Slack.

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