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Security vendor Kaspersky has warned about a new malware that allows attackers to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers. Dubbed SessionManager, the malicious tool has been used for the past 15 months to target NGOs, government agencies, military as well as industrial organizations across Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. As reported by the Kaspersky researchers, the…

Azure Conditional Access policies can be used with Azure Information Protection (AIP) to secure protected documents against unauthorized access. If you have already decided to use AIP as part of your Office 365 data protection strategy, adding a conditional access policy is a quick way to frustrate people who try to access documents when they shouldn’t.

Microsoft made a ton of announcements at this week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. If you’re an Office 365 tenant administrator, the health of SharePoint Online and what it and OneDrive for Business can do is important to you. Among all the fluffy stuff about intelligent intranets, there was some good news about improvements in administration, security, and network utilization, all of which will help other Office 365 apps too.

How do I grant the administrator(s) (or any other user) full mailbox right on Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes? In Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, when you grant Service Account Admin privileges on the Site container to a Microsoft Windows account, you grant that account unrestricted access to all mailboxes. Because Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003 do…

Microsoft has detailed some new features added to its Windows Autopatch service in the month of September. The major highlights of this release include a new application-based authentication method, enhancements for the device registration flow, as well as reporting capabilities. Microsoft first unveiled the Windows Autopatch service back in April and made it available in…

Sean Wilkins discusses QoS Classification and Marking configuration in relation to VoIP Quality of Service implementation on Cisco equipment. This marking is used by devices on the network to prioritize high priority over low priority marked traffic. Also covered are Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) values, Per Hob Behaviors (PHB) and Modular QoS Command Line Interface (MQC).

Ignite is fast approaching and I have an impossible schedule at the event, so I’ll be viewing a lot of Channel 9 videos afterward.

Office 365 applications now create many guest accounts in Azure Active Directory. You can see what accounts exist, but it’s more difficult to discover who created the accounts – or why they were created. Fortunately, the Office 365 audit log holds a lot of useful data that can be interrogated to find some answers and PowerShell is a great tool for slicing and dicing audit data. See what you think of the answers I’ve come up with.

How should I post messages to newsgroups without getting spam and viruses? Featured Product: Free AntiSpam for Exchange! DNS Blacklist checking & more – GFI MailEssentials. A fully functional 30-day trial is available for download. Newsgroups allow you to “post” messages (called a “posting”), respond to others’ posts, and even download files they’ve left there…

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that facilitates user logon to on-premises and cloud services.