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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.
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.
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."
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.
When planning Purview controls, a flat SharePoint architecture offers the most implementation flexibility. In this first edition of Practical Purview, we review what a Flat SharePoint architecture is and how to apply different controls within Purview.
Securing Teams meetings with Teams Premium offers organizations multiple options to protect sensitive information. In this blog, we review those options and share some tips along the way.
In the wake of the recent CrowdStrike outage, Paul Robichaux dives into what you and your organization should do to prepare for the next unforeseen Microsoft outage.
Microsoft Places preview, Outlook Classic rebrand, and AI upgrades for Teams Rooms highlight this week's Practical 365 podcast. We discuss the potential impact of Places in the hybrid work landscape, the implications of Outlook's renaming, and how AI-powered speaker recognition is enhancing Teams meetings. Plus, we cover key Microsoft 365 roadmap items, including automatic work location settings in Teams and new Copilot features coming later this year.
Microsoft Teams SIP gateway is an option to connect native SIP devices to the Microsoft Teams platform. In this blog, we review the SIP gateway and discuss some usage scenarios.
Are you looking to ingest your data into Sentinel? In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we review use cases and tips for ingesting networking data into Sentinel.
Welcome to Practical SharePoint! This episode is the first of a series aimed to help SharePoint administrators enhance their skills in managing SharePoint Online.
Unless you have been around the Microsoft security world for a while, you might not be familiar with Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS). In this blog, we review what OCPS is and what setting you should apply in your tenant.
