New Fluid Office Documents from Microsoft Coming This Summer to Teams, OneNote, and More
Fluid Components Starting to Arrive in Microsoft Platforms Soon The biggest change to Microsoft’s Office documents in decades is coming to life soon, as the company’s Fluid framework arrives in Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Outlook, and Whiteboard. The future-facing concept of Fluid’s framework, introduced last year, allows for immediate sync of content that lives independently across […]
3 Steps to Help Configure Emergency Calling in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool for collaboration but managing its features can be challenging and time-consuming. Telephony and calling plans for Microsoft Teams requires certain steps to be completed in order to maximize all its features. This blog outlines how to add emergency addresses, associate phone numbers to these locations, and retrieve necessary codes […]
New Study Reveals Top Concerns for Microsoft Platform Management
Managing Microsoft environments can be complex and time-consuming, but they provide critical services to maintain business continuity and allow access to employees to keep them productive. Whether on-premises Active Directory, hybrid, or Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), IT executives must balance efficiency while maintaining Active Directory security, such as managing user and group permissions, and […]
Retire Skype for Business Admin Center to Start on Dec 1, 2020
Microsoft will be retiring the Skype for Business admin center starting on December 1st, 2020. Instead of Skype admin center, Microsoft recommends the utilization of Teams admin center which is where they will continue to invest development resources. Key Points: Major: Retirement Timing: December 01, 2020 Action: Transition to the Teams admin center How […]
What’s the difference between Microsoft user-based MFA and Azure MFA?
If your business relies on cloud computing services, it’s essential that you set security defaults that include multi–factor authentication (MFA) to protect your resources. Protecting your user accounts during a sign in event is vital for securing accounts that require privileged access to data and other resources in the cloud. MFA has become the standard in electronic […]
Midnight tonight deadline to patch Windows Servers
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) doesn’t issue emergency directives unless there’s a serious cause for concern. There is a vulnerability that could enable an attacker with network access to gain admin status by sending a string of zeros using the Windows Netlogon protocol. A vulnerability that, CISA said, […]
How Granular Delegation Can Help Avoid Security Incidents in Microsoft Environments
With so many security threats to defend against today, it’s nearly impossible for IT teams to keep up. And while each security event may be different, there are common threads that can be found across a majority of them. One of the most common is that users are simply granted too much access over […]
Azure Sentinel Solution to Find Vulnerable Netlogon Clients
Microsoft is addressing a privilege vulnerability in a two-part rollout by modifying how Netlogon handles the usage of Netlogon secure channels. Phase one, deployment, began on Aug 11. In this phase, secure Remote ProtoCol (RPC) is enforced for machine, trust and domain controller accounts. This phase also includes a new group policy object (GPO) and a […]
How One Organization Accidentally Erased 145K Microsoft Teams Chats — Avoid This Mistake
Microsoft recently confirmed that Teams chat data is not recoverable after an IT blunder permanently erased 145,000 users chats at KPMG. With so many remote workers now relying on Microsoft Teams, how can IT teams help protects this critical communication for their end users? While recovering chat data may not be possible, tight control […]
4 Reasons Why the Recycle Bin Can’t Fully Protect Azure Active Directory
Let’s face it, user errors are a reality, and the threat of malicious actors breaching Active Directory –both on-premises and in Azure – is on the rise. Protecting your data has never been more important, yet no native tooling exists to tracks changes, store previous values or enable administrators to rollback those changes immediately. Microsoft […]
