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Practical Graph: Working with Exchange Online Mailbox Data

Tony Redmond — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Exchange Online mail folders and messages are a very important resource for Microsoft 365 tenants. This article discusses how to use cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to retrieve information about mailbox folders and mail messages together with some performance tips for dealing with folders that store thousands of messages.

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Practical Sentinel: Ingesting Networking Data in Microsoft Sentinel

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Practical Sentinel, Thijs describes the different ingestion methods, how to choose the best method, and advises how to filter the ingested data.

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Copilot for Microsoft 365: Datacenter Investments, Customer Spend, and Black Hat Exploits

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Market analysts question if companies like Microsoft will ever generate a return on their AI investment. That hasn't stopped Microsoft spending $19 billion in FY24 Q4, so they must be hopeful. Meanwhile, at Black Hat USA 2024, a presentation exploring some vulnerabilities in Copilot should make all Microsoft 365 tenants with Copilot consider how to secure their organization better.

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Crowdstrike Fallout, OneDrive Changes, and Planner Gets Copilot: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E24

Steve Goodman — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

On this week's episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Paul discuss the Crowdstrike outage, important changes coming to OneDrive for Business, Copilot for Planner Preview, and more!

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Using Azure Email Communication Service to Send Messages

Tony Redmond — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

If you're looking for an email service capable of handling large volumes of email to external recipients, Microsoft will propose Email Communication Services (ECS). Built on top of Exchange Online, ECS shares some characteristics with the High Volume Email (HVE) solution. After testing both, HVE is probably a better solution if you have a Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Controlling Teams Transcripts

Karin Skapski — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:17:45 +0000

Teams meeting transcripts can significantly enhance meeting productivity and accessibility, but their management involves careful consideration of data protection, privacy, and storage concerns. This article provides an overview of how to manage Teams meeting transcripts effectively, covering key topics such as storage changes, privacy controls, and strategies to ensure compliance while maximizing the benefits of transcription in your organization.

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The New Outlook for Windows Reaches General Availability

Tony Redmond — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The new Outlook for Windows client is generally available, which means that Microsoft supports it for product usage. That's all fine for those who want to use the new client once they understand that a considerable functionality gap still exists between the new Outlook and Outlook classic. Fortunately, Microsoft will support Outlook classic until "at least 2029."

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Practical Protection: Incident Response

Paul Robichaux — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:17:56 +0000

Incident Response is all about people, process, and technique. In this episode of Practical Protection, we review different issues that can arise during incident response.

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Exchange Online’s New High Volume Email (HVE) Solution

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Exchange Online High-Volume Email (HVE) solution handles up to 100,000 internal messages and 2,000 external messages daily. It's intended to replace on-premises Exchange servers that organizations keep just to service email submission from devices and applications. In this review of the preview version, we discovered that almost everything works just fine, if you keep within the throttling limits.

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New Features to Manage Inactive Devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Thijs Lecomte — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Over the last year, Microsoft has released several new features to make management of inactive devices easier. In this blog, we review these features and build off our original blog post on "Handling Inactive Devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint."

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