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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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Microsoft Changes Course with Windows 10X, Prepares Preview Builds

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is changing the path ahead for Windows 10X which means a new focus and Surface Neo isn’t coming anytime soon.

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Active Directory Authentication for Azure Files Enters Public Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Active Directory authentication for Azure Files, which is now in preview, builds on Azure AD DS authentication over SMB by letting you mount shares created using Azure Files with Windows Server Active Directory (AD) credentials.

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Teams Custom Backgrounds Arrive In May

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s Teams has quickly found itself at the center of the work-from-home conversation that has kicked up during the past month. The company reported that they added 12 million new users in a week last month and coming next month, they will roll out a highly requested feature.

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Microsoft’s Conference Strategy Reboot

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is not planning to have an in-person event until after July of FY2021 concludes and is re-thinking its entire conference strategy.

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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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The Confusing World of Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Licensing

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Licensing the range of Microsoft 365 compliance and security features is a task taken on by the bravest. Or so they say. Another way of putting it is that people just don’t understand what licenses are needed for the different compliance, data governance, and security features. A new Microsoft 365 Compliance plan and three sub-licenses might make it easier, even if they’re more expensive. After reading the PDF to explain what licenses are needed, maybe you’ll know what you need to buy.

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Hardware-Enforced Stack Protection Preview Arrives For Windows 10

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft announces support for protection against Return-Oriented Programming based control flow attacks in Windows 10 Insider builds on the Fast Ring.

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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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Microsoft Azure European Regions Starting to Hit Capacity Limits

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Some Azure customers complaining that they can’t start virtual machines in several European regions due to lack of capacity.

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Purging Unwanted Messages from Exchange Online Mailboxes

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft will remove the Search-Mailbox cmdlet from Exchange Online on July 1, but that doesn’t mean you can’t purge bad messages from user mailboxes. Office 365 content searches and content search actions can hard- or soft-delete messages. Some limitations exist, but not enough to be worried. And we include a PowerShell script to show how to get the job done.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure – March 2020 Edition

At times like this, chatting about cool new features in Azure is a lot less important than what’s surrounding us all, and impacting some of us either directly or indirectly, now. But you know what? A distraction from the fear, worry, or self-imposed incarceration can be a good thing. So let’s crack on with it, and let’s talk about the cool new IaaS features that Azure launched during the last month.

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