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Microsoft Graph Conditional Access support and insights make it easier to secure users at scale.

Office 365 has experienced great success since its launch in June 2011, but it’s also had its share of failures as well. This article considers the most important technical advances in Office 365 and the most important parts of the ecosystem as well as some places where things didn’t go quite so well as either Microsoft or tenants would have liked.

Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune) is a free cloud service that connects your devices to the cloud and lets you manage the devices using the cloud console. Learn how to set up Microsoft Endpoint Manager to manage your Windows endpoints. What is Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune)? Microsoft Endpoint Manager is an Enterprise Mobility Management platform that…

Learn why Microsoft considers PINs safer than passwords, and how to configure a PIN for your Windows 10 device.

Learn how to create a Network Security Group in Azure, using PowerShell Azure Resource Manager, to control inbound and outbound traffic.

Zero Trust is a security model that can be applied to Microsoft 365. It focuses on improving security by verifying and testing both the identity and device before granting access to resources. You can think of Zero Trust as a way of working, wherein you take it for granted that every user and device accessing…

Microsoft will release Office 365 multi-geo tenants to general availability in early 2018. You can then deploy Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and (later) SharePoint Online across multiple Office 365 datacenter regions. It’s good for data sovereignty, but won’t solve network problems.

Microsoft StaffHub is a new Office 365 application built from bits of Office 365 Groups, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Azure, and Teams. The concept is simple – provide an application to allow the schedules of workers to be managed through a combination of browser and mobile interfaces. It’s an idea that will be popular with some Office 365 tenants, but it’s probably of limited interest to the majority.

Microsoft Teams is very successful at present, but a nagging doubt exists that some of the approaches taken by Microsoft towards Teams management and administration are less than optimum. It’s great to introduce a mass of new features on an ongoing basis and it’s better when policies exist to control the use of the features. But do new features always need to be enabled out-of-the-box?

Over the past year, Microsoft’s Outlook mobile development team has been assisting you and your users with providing a clear and separate perspective between your work and personal accounts in the Outlook mobile app. They’ve also helped users identify external messages for security purposes and to keep malicious threats out of your networks. There are…