Microsoft 365

Microsoft has recently disclosed a security breach that allowed Chinese hackers to access the email accounts of around two dozen organizations. Now, security researchers have found that the stolen security key provided access to far beyond Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts. According to Microsoft, the Chinese hacking group (dubbed Storm-0558) used forged authentication tokens…

Microsoft has modified the procedures for IT Pros and Exchange Administrators to export mailbox items to a PST file. In an on-premises Exchange Server environment, it is quickly done from the Exchange Admin Center (EAC). However, in Office 365, it’s a little more complicated. Actually, it’s rather involved. Fear not – In this guide, I’ll…

As an IT Pro, it is crucial to your organization to make sure that your users receive legitimate emails. Sometimes, Exchange Online Protection (EOP) can flag these emails as spam. Safely creating whitelists for specific domains/email addresses allows you to efficiently manage email flow in your organization and protect your users from malicious activity. In…

Microsoft’s Office 365 Quarantine is a new service designed to keep organizations safer by moving all suspicious messages to a secure location. In this guide, we’ll explain how Office 365 Quarantine works and how IT admins can use it to protect users in an organization from malicious files and messages. What is Office 365 Quarantine?…

As an IT pro, the process of exporting users’ mailboxes to PST is rather straightforward. However, importing PST email and calendar items into new mailboxes can be tricky. In this article, I will detail how to import PST files to Office 365 using either Outlook or the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal and Azure AzCopy. How…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it’s blocking the use of Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol for Exchange Online in June 2023. The company recommends organizations to plan their migrations to the latest Exchange Online PowerShell module. In October, Microsoft started killing off Basic Authentication support for Exchange Online customers to prevent password spray attacks. This change applies…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to enable Windows Hello for Business. You should enable Windows Hello for Business to reduce the risk associated with passwords. Even if your users’ devices don’t have hardware that supports Windows Hello, like a fingerprint reader, you can still have them use a PIN to login….

Microsoft Teams is getting a new collaborative meeting notes feature to improve the meeting experience. This release enables participants to collaborate on notes with their colleagues during Teams meetings. In Microsoft Teams, the collaborative meeting notes feature allows users to take notes, create agendas, as well as generate action items. It eliminates the need to…

Microsoft unveiled a couple of new additions to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem at its Inspire 2023 conference this week. The company plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Achieve solutions to help enterprise customers to protect and manage large volumes of data. Microsoft 365 Backup is a new service that will let organizations…

Microsoft announced this morning the pricing details of its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool alongside a new version of its Bing chatbot for enterprise users. The Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available as an add-on for $30 per user per month for all enterprise customers with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions….