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TEC 2024 PowerShell & Conditional Access Workshops

Jacob Stokes — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Don't miss your chance to meet and learn from your favorite Practical 365 Authors at TEC 2024. As a proud sponsor of TEC, we are offering BOGO discounts on exclusive pre-con workshops with authors Michel De Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, and more!

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Practical Protection: Asking the Right Questions to Break the Kill Chain

Paul Robichaux — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:23:10 +0000

You can’t disrupt a chain if you can’t identify the links. In this blog, Paul Robichaux goes over some of the ways you can break a Kill Chain in your environment. And it all starts with asking yourself the right questions.

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Use PowerShell to Look Up IP Address Geolocation Data

Tony Redmond — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 06:00:40 +0000

Many Microsoft 365 and Exchange Server logs contain IP addresses. To find out where the IP addresses come from and if they are internal or external, PowerShell developers can use online web-based geolocation services. It's important not to overuse the services because you could be throttled.

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Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Manage Third-Party Apps Better

James Yip — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:39:00 +0000

I used Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in a project with Microsoft 365 E5 licenses and realized it’s a handy and powerful tool at a reasonable price even if purchased as a standalone product. This post will outline practical use cases for using it to monitor and enforce restrictions on Microsoft 365 apps and some third-party apps to reduce the likelihood of information leakage.

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Why Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) for Azure AD Matters

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:57:33 +0000

Continuous access evaluation (CAE) is a feature that flew under the radar over the past two years. Even so, CAE for Azure Active Directory is an extremely important feature that will not only increase the security posture of your environment but reduce the amount of time before a user loses access to resources when certain critical events happen. This article discusses the need for the feature and how to work with it.

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Five New Year Resolutions for Microsoft 365 Tenant Administrators

Tony Redmond — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft 365 ecosystem is a big place and it's hard to keep on top of everything. But to start 2022 off with a bang, here are five areas for tenant administrators to consider when they plan how they'll spend their time in the new year. As always, feel free to disagree and add comments describing what you plan to do in 2022.

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For Heaven’s Sake, Just Turn on MFA Already

Paul Robichaux — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:06:00 +0000

Microsoft has recently made major strides to improve the capability and resiliency of multi-factor authentication in Azure AD; however, this article highlights the four practical ways in which you can take advantage of MFA in your Microsoft 365 estate, and just turn the darn thing on already!

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The Most Important Steps an Administrator Can Take to Make Exchange Online Secure by Default

Sean McAvinue — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:08:22 +0000

There are many ways in which you can improve the security of your Exchange Online environment. In this article, Sean McAvinue details the most important steps that admins can immediately implement to align Exchange Online tenants with a good security baseline and posture.

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How to Block User Access to Microsoft 365 Accounts

Tony Redmond — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:06:22 +0000

A variety of methods exist to block access to a user's Entra ID account from a complete block to a conditional access policy. In this article, we examine the various methods and debate the worth of each approach. Conditional access policies are the cleanest and most effective long-term solution, but you need Entra ID P1 licenses. If you don't have those licenses, maybe one of the other approaches will work for you.

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Using PowerShell to Manage Conditional Access (CA) Policies

Damian Scoles — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:09:00 +0000

Microsoft provides many methods to manage a tenant’s data and users. PowerShell is a powerful tool to manage resources, including Conditional Access Policies using a set of cmdlets in the AzureAD module. In this article, Microsoft MVP Damian Scoles reviews the eight PowerShell cmdlets and how to use them.

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