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Recent news (or FUD) about an “undocumented” Office 365 API got the security world in a tizzy, but in reality it’s likely just part of the Graph. What’s more important is to help tenant administrators understand how to harden their tenant against Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. As it turns out, there are many different things you can do, if you want to.

Office 365 Groups and Teams support guest users, who enjoy full access to the SharePoint document libraries. You might not want this, because not every document in those libraries are suitable for sharing with guests. The question is how to collaborate with guests while maintaining some control over information. Rights management seems like a good way to accomplish the task.

Is it worth upgrading to SharePoint 2013? We think so. Check out our top 10 new SharePoint 2013 features.

With GDPR coming, it’s good news that Teams now supports Office 365 retention policies. You can apply retention to messages posted to channels and chats, or use a mixture of policies to target different sets of users and teams. You might be surprised how Teams has implemented retention – and remember, we’re only talking about messages – other content might also need a policy.

Now that Microsoft has shipped external access for Teams, it is obvious that they have some work to do to smoothen access and increase functionality. Although access works as long as guest users have accounts in other Office 365 tenants, areas like switching, auditing what external users do, compliance, and blocking deserve some consideration. Here’s what we know from the last week.

Wish you could telecommute? Discover the benefits to remote working, and look at Microsoft’s integrated solution, spanning on-premise, and public cloud.

A long-requested feature in SharePoint Online is the ability to change the URL of the top-level SharePoint site.  This setting is determined by the tenant name you choose when your tenant was first created, meaning the URL will always be https://<tenantname>.sharepoint.com.  Poorly considered tenant name choices, along with company rebranding or renaming, are just a…

Like many businesses today, VMware has embraced Kubernetes as a path forward to rearchitect modern apps and extend infrastructure and app management across the data center, edge and cloud.

This is how you can quickly create hundreds or even thousands of Active Directory users with the help of PowerShell.

Michael K. Campbell shares his thoughts on Microsoft’s decision to run SQL Server on Linux, along with associated costs that likely motivated the tech giant’s decision.