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Microsoft EMS Components: Advanced Threat Analytics

Diego Samuilov provides an overview of the Microsoft Advanced Thread Analytics service, which is part of Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS), that enables organizations to detect and eliminate threats more quickly.

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AvePoint Introduces Backup for Office 365 Groups (Well, Outlook Groups)

Backup vendors have been slow to move from an on-premises view of data. Office 365 applications form a software parts bin used to build new apps and backup and restore is more complex. AvePoint now supports backup and restore of Outlook Groups. One step forward…

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Understanding External Access to Documents in an Office 365 Tenant (Part 1)

It’s a good idea to understand whether any external people have access to documents in your Office 365 tenant. There’s no option on the Office 365 or SharePoint Online consoles to tell you what access external users enjoy to SharePoint sites, so we must use some PowerShell to interrogate SharePoint and see what that reveals.

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Diving Deeper into Office 365 Audit Data with Cloud App Security

Office 365 generates lots of audit data. Some of the data seems a little strange, and we need some help to understand it. Office 365 Cloud App Security helps, but at a considerable cost. Do you need the extra insight provided by Cloud App Security? That’s a decision you must make.

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Cloud Computing

Cloud NAS Shootout: Amazon EFS/FSx versus Azure Files

Last Update: Aug 05, 2022

Organizations looking to move some or all of their file systems to cloud storage have choices. The options from the two biggest public cloud service providers are Microsoft Azure Files, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx. All these platforms offer cloud-based serverless storage, allowing you to avoid maintaining complex file systems. This article compares these options based on 4 key parameters –…

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M365 Changelog: Service health and Message center – ‘Identity Service’ rebranding to ‘Microsoft Entra’

MC638137 – Today, Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, Microsoft announced that Azure Active Directory will be rebranded as ‘Microsoft Entra ID’. Historically this service has been represented under the service name ‘Identity Service’, within Service health and Message center experience. To align on the changes included in today’s announcement, ‘Identity Service’ will be rebranded to ‘Microsoft…

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Microsoft Ignite 2015 Keynote Highlights for IT Pros

Aidan Finn reports on how Microsoft is trying to rebuild their relationship with IT pros, starting with the keynote at Microsoft Ignite 2015.

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Use the Update Compliance in Operations Management Suite to Monitor Windows Updates

Russell Smith shows you how to configure Operations Management Suite’s Update Compliance to monitor Windows updates.

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Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 Plans Compared

Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5 plans offer a huge range of benefits and services. Knowing the differences between the two plans makes it easier to decide which one is right for your organization. In this article, I will compare the Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 plans so you can make the right decision…

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Understanding Microsoft 365

In this post, I’ll discuss one of the hottest subjects that my customers want to learn more about; Microsoft 365.

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