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Dec 10, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Thijs Lecomte |James Yip
Table of ContentsToggle Several sessions at the recent European SharePoint Conference (ESPC) in Stockholm discussed the issue of how to retrieve solid data about Copilot usage in Microsoft 365. As noted by multiple speakers, the simple fact is that the usage data reported by Microsoft is not good enough. The usage data, available via a Graph API and surfaced in the reports section of the Microsoft 365 admin center, shows Copilot activity across several apps.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Steve Goodman |Thijs Lecomte
Table of ContentsToggle Microsoft Lists is a popular application for organizing personal and shared data in tables. Personal lists are stored in OneDrive for Business while shared lists are held in a SharePoint Online site. Many PowerShell scripts depend on inputs like a CSV file.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Thijs Lecomte |Jacob Stokes
Table of ContentsToggle As a shared service, Exchange Online has always limited the ability of mailboxes to send higher-than-normal volumes of email. The rationale is no single account should be able to hog resources to the detriment of others. Exchange Online uses a mechanism called the recipient rate limit to set a threshold for the traffic that an individual mailbox can generate.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Thijs Lecomte |Michel de Rooij
Table of ContentsToggle According to Microsoft in early 2024, only 38% of Entra ID accounts use multifactor authentication (MFA). Although this percentage has improved over the years, it remains alarmingly low. Another concern is that many think that SMS-based challenge/response is an adequate authentication method.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Steve Goodman |Thijs Lecomte
Table of ContentsToggle To maintain performance and conserve resources, Graph API requests return a limited set of data when you make calls to fetch information about Groups, Teams, user accounts, and other types of objects. The set fetched by the Graph is represented as a page of data that can fit a certain number of objects. The Graph developers choose a page size which is a compromise between fetching all available objects and performance.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux |Thijs Lecomte
Table of ContentsToggle On February 12, Microsoft Security tweeted a snippet of a conference session featuring Alex Weinert, VP of Entra ID Security, discussing the roll-out of Microsoft-managed conditional access policies. Microsoft is currently deploying these policies to “eligible” Microsoft 365 tenants, meaning tenants with Entra ID P1 or P2 licenses (required for conditional access) to help customers embrace the goodness of multifactor authentication.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Thijs Lecomte |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggleFrom mid-2019 to July 2023, Microsoft ran a campaign to retire basic authentication for seven email protocols. Greg Taylor, who directed the four-year long effort, came to The Experts Conference (TEC) in Atlanta to share information about the tactics used and learnings from the campaign that reduced daily count for basic authentication connections for email protocols from some 70 million to close to zero.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
petri.com | Thijs Lecomte
Microsoft 365 Defender, Identity Protection, and Microsoft Sentinel generate an avalanche of security incidents that require attention. In this article, I will give you an overview of what tools are at your disposal, what incidents are useful, and how to make Microsoft Sentinel reduce alerts. Today’s security systems aren’t perfect. They generate many false-positive alerts, which need to be investigated to verify whether they are indeed malicious.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
practical365.com | Michael Van Horenbeeck |Thijs Lecomte |Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggleAlthough there is not a single definitive right answer on how to leverage Microsoft’s solutions to support your cybersecurity strategy, there is much to be learned from how certain challenges are typically overcome by others. To cover all different aspects in writing, would almost require a book.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
practical365.com | Becky Cross |Thijs Lecomte |Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggleWhen measuring the success of a migration, a common metric is verifying whether users maintained seamless access to their resources throughout the migration project or whether they encountered issues caused by user identity confusion. If you are simply consolidating resources from one domain to another in the same forest, then you might avoid changing user identities during the migration.
