Paul Cunningham, Author at Practical 365

Practical 365 is Now Part of the Quadrotech Family

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:10:37 +0000

A new dawn is on the horizon for Practical 365, as a new editorial team of Microsoft MVPs takes over. Read the full statement here.

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Retiring the Practical 365 Blog

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:14:03 +0000

The time has come for me to retire this blog. I'm writing this post to let you know what's going to happen to Practical 365 going forward, and to say thank you to everyone in the community who has supported me over the years.

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Managing Change in Office 365

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 03:26:51 +0000

How to deal with the challenges of keeping up to date with new features and changes being deployed by Microsoft in Office 365.

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Multi-factor Authentication by Default for Administrators in Azure AD and Office 365

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:52:52 +0000

How the Azure Active Directory baseline security policy enforces multi-factor authentication for privileged administrator accounts in Office 365 and Azure AD.

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June 2018 Updates Released for Exchange Server

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:12:24 +0000

Microsoft has released new cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2013, and Exchange Server 2010 SP3 in June 2018.

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PSA: You Should Keep a Copy of Every Exchange Server Update

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:40:35 +0000

I strongly recommend you keep an archive copy of every Exchange Server installer, service pack, update rollup, and cumulative update in case of a support or recovery scenario that requires it.

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Better Spam Filtering with Exchange Online Mail Flow Rules

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 02:20:00 +0000

How to use Exchange Online mail flow rules to improve the effectiveness of your EOP spam filtering and protect Office 365 users from phishing attacks.

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Blocking IMAP, POP, and Other Legacy Applications From Office 365 Using Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:35:31 +0000

How to use Azure Active Directory conditional access policies to block legacy applications such as POP, IMAP, and basic authentication from connecting to Office 365.

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Microsoft is Going to Enable Your Azure Information Protection Features

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 06:07:59 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Azure Information Protection (AIP) will be enabled by default for all Office 365 customers that have eligible licenses.

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Goodbye Office 365 Admin Center, Hello Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 05:10:09 +0000

Microsoft has announced the start of the migration of customers from the Office 365 admin center to the new Microsoft 365 admin center.

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