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Use PowerShell to create consistent user objects in Active Directory.

Audit and test Microsoft Defender Controlled Folder Access to help protect your organization against ransomware.

Photos Enhance the Tenant Directory In the past I have written about the desirability of assigning photos to guest users and how to use PowerShell to assign a default photo to guest users. Nice as it is to have photos for guest users, it’s even more important to have photos for tenant user accounts, especially… Read More

In a move that mirrors in-person meetings, Microsoft has released breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams. Breakout rooms were originally expected to arrive in October and after a delay, they have finally arrived in December. It is a wise assumption that the delay was to listen to feedback from customers who were using the feature in… Read More

Restic is a Go-based backup utility. Built on the design principles of an efficient, easy-to-use, secure, and verifiable backup system, Restic meets and exceeds those goals.

Great to Protect Content Until Access is Needed The growing popularity of sensitivity labels is goodness if you simply look at the desirability of protecting confidential information. However, the presence of a larger percentage of encrypted data within Office 365 creates some addition management challenges. As I have noted during several conference talks, the only… Read More

This post was sponsored by Kemp Microsoft’s offering in the single sign-on space for several years has been Azure Active Directory, which serves as the underlying directory service for Microsoft 365. This service is also widely used as the SSO and provisioning service compatible with most third-party SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many more.   In a surprising turnaround from… Read More

Manipulate PowerShell object output using calculated properties.

Following Personal Support in Teams Mobile Clients On November 19, just before things started to wind down for the Thanksgiving holidays, Microsoft announced the preview of “personal” features in the Teams desktop and browser clients. Preview availability for personal features on desktop (Windows only) and browsers follows up the debut of Teams at home for… Read More

One of the things that is rather powerful about Azure Storage is that there are a number of different offerings. Azure Blob Storage has three tiers that should be very familiar Hot, Cool, and Archive.

SMS and Voice MFA Methods in Microsoft’s Crosshairs On November 10 Alex Weinert, the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, posted It's Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication. The article argues that it’s time to consider dumping the SMS and voice methods for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in favor of passwordless strong authentication… Read More

PowerShell offers native cmdlets that allow you to quickly search for just what you want to find in the Windows Event Log. The ability to filter results and return just what is needed helps to focus your troubleshooting efforts in just the right place.

The Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets are exceptionally useful tools to both export data for consumption to other applications and to retrieve and import information from third-party data sources.

How Microsoft Advises Tenants About New Features During a recent discussion, I was asked why Microsoft seems to publish so many incorrect roll-out dates for new Teams features. While my gut feel was that it certainly seems like some Teams features are delayed, some evidence was needed to prove or disprove the case. When Microsoft… Read More

Looking for a simple and easy way to delete content with PowerShell? Here you go.