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Native Mode Yammer Networks Generate Office 365 Compliance Records

Slow Progress Towards Office 365 Compliance and Data Governance For years, I have been mildly to harshly critical of Yammer’s inability to march in the same step as the rest of Office 365, particularly in data governance and compliance. Much has been promised, but the delivery has been slow, even in Microsoft’s self-proclaimed “Year of…

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How Secure is Video Conferencing App Zoom?

There’s been a lot written in the press recently about video conferencing app Zoom. But how bad are Zoom’s security issues?

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Outlook Flaw Compromises Exchange Online Native Data Protection

A bug in Outlook desktop’s implementation of the MAPI over HTTP protocol allows users whose mailboxes are on hold to remove attachments from messages. The removal is not captured by the copy-on-write feature of Exchange Online Native Data Protection, which potentially compromises the ability of Data Governance managers or eDiscovery investigators to recover information needed for compliance purposes. All in all, it’s a mess that Microsoft needs to clean up quickly.

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Controlling Communications inside Office 365 Tenants with Information Barriers (Part 2)

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to setup Office 365 Information Barriers. We now get to the practical application of those barriers to stop different user groups communicating with Teams. Chats and VOIP calls are blocked, users are removed from team membership, and generally everything works as you’d expect.

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Controlling Communications Inside Office 365 Tenants with Information Barriers (Part 1)

Office 365 Information Barriers allow organizations to erect logical firewalls between different user communities to ensure that regulatory and legal requirements are met. Teams and Exchange Online support Information Barrier policies, which replace Address Book Policies. Some work is necessary to get Information Barriers set up. We cover that work in this article and prepare the ground for deploying the policies to Teams.

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How Retention Impacts Office 365 Storage

Office 365 retention policies help organizations keep information for as long as needed. But retention consumes storage. This isn’t a problem for Exchange Online, but it is for SharePoint Online, because files held in the Preservation Hold Library are charged against the tenant storage quota. This isn’t a reason to not use retention policies, but you should be careful.

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Office 365 Supervision Policies Now Include Teams

Good news for those who like to know what’s going on in email: Office 365 supervision policies now support Teams personal chats and channel conversations in addition to email. And you can now use sensitive data types to find communications worth reading. Seriously, supervision policies are important to a certain section of the market, so it’s good that Teams messages now surface for review.

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Customer Lockbox Preview for Azure VMs

This post will explain what the preview for Customer Lockbox for Azure virtual machines is and how to enable it and use the feature.

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How To Install Puppet Enterprise on Red Hat Linux

Russell shows you how to install Puppet Enterprise server version 7 on a Red Hat Linux VM running on Hyper-V.

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Azure Update Management Part 2: Schedule Updates, Check Update Compliance, and Enroll Non-Azure VMs

In the first part of this series, Russell showed you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management. In the final part, Russell demonstrates scheduling updates, checking update compliance, and how to enable Update Management on non-Azure VMs.

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