Hi, hope you enjoyed the last bit of Summer. It was a busy few months with a lot of things happening. There was good bit of updates in the Microsoft 365 world as well. Back in September I had mentioned of a few of the Microsoft 365 interesting and much discussed features among my clients (“Highly […]
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In Azure using IaaS workloads, the new Just-In-Time VM Access helps to mitigate a brute force attack by limiting the time that a port is kept open. Very easy to set up and can control SSH or RDP ports as applicable. This feature in preview now and should be GA soon. Enabling the option will
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Here is an announcement from MSFT regarding file template management. Just checked my tenant and I do not see it yet so cannot give a firsthand experience. But going through the blog, it looks like the “Edit New menu” and “Add template” are new. With this, it is possible to add document templates to SharePoint
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Privileged access management in Office 365, would be a pretty good feature for that organization needing to meet compliance requirements. Currently, I am helping a client to understand the security possibility in O365 so they can implement and enable secure sharing through ODFB. This new capability, when available, will basically bring a process/feature used by
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Some Office 365 features that are in dev/testing cycle as of 9/2/2018 that are interesting and quite often discussed with clients: Rich Yammer feeds in SharePoint New web part to add a fully functional native Yammer feed to any modern SharePoint site. Advanced anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365 Extending coverage of Advanced
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SAML, for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an XML based open standard for exchanging AuthN and AuthZ. SAML helps with SSO, Federated and Web. It was perplexing why SharePoint 2013 would not support SAML 2.0 while ADFS 2.0 released few years ago as a download for Windows Server 2008, did support SAML 2.0.Recently I was
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How many time we have wondered if we could search for an event! We could do this in Outlook, now it is also possible with OWA. Read all about it here:Discover Calendar Search in Outlook Web App
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Back in June I had shared the news article from Hellen Allas of MSFT regarding GA of Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS, and in October (https://lnkd.in/erR8Ywc), a post from Mayunk Jain of MSFT regarding Intune support for macOS app management. MSFT has continued its journey to provide that single place to go to manage all
In case you missed this session at Ignite, here is a blog post about the extension of Microsoft Information Protection data classification labels to Power BI data. I had made use of RLS and SSAS native data security in the past. Now I can use the same MIP labels that I created in M365 to
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Following the Ignite session by Paul Andrews on “Microsoft 365 network performance testing, scoring, and recommendations”, I tested my environment performance with the “Office 365 Network Onboarding tool”. I was happy to see it was in the top bracket. Check your environment performance with the tool: https://lnkd.in/eaA_XHv For more information checkout the blog below.
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