Now don’t get me wrong… I love what Microsoft are doing with their cloud platforms and security efforts. The investment must be mind-blowing considering the many constantly evolving services we now have at our disposal. …BUT…! when they hiked their prices in March last year and introduced the yearly commitment so you could ‘stay on …
Careful with the pricing Microsoft! Read More »
No, you say? Well, “chop, chop” then, let’s get it done! ✌🙂🤞 A ‘Temporary Access Pass’ (or TAP) is a one-off, time-limited passcode that is generated for a specific user. It allows the user to sign in to configure their second factor security information in Azure AD e.g., Phone number, App notification, OTP code, Security …
Just a quick one on ABPs – there are many posts about this topic now, but there are few that mention how to resolve issues such as recipients not appearing in the list when they should be. In this case you need to ‘tickle’ (yes that’s the official Microsoft term) the objects to get them …
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The only answers to this question are: I’m already using AWS Route 53 and it’s better! I’m lazy and I like things to take time and cost more, so I pay for someone else to take days to make a change for me [yawhaaat?] I use Cloudflare because someone gave me food and beer (and …
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Hi! hope you are well… I used this script yesterday and thought “I must post about that!” So here it is… 😃 This can be a good way to deal with an employee leaving, or if you end up with a dual-mailbox scenario, although Microsoft have made that much less likely since adding the Hybrid …
Exchange Online – merge a soft deleted mailbox into an active mailbox Read More »
Hello! Long time no… 🍻😊🍻 I thought I would share some PowerShell I used during a recent cross-tenant migration. Firstly, the Microsoft documentation is really good and got the journey off to a good start: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-mailbox-migration?view=o365-worldwide PLEASE NOTE: Following is some fairly raw PowerShell. You can’t just press Go! You’ll need to understand and update …
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Cloud services have improved our lives and made our jobs easier – BUT they have also given hackers a worldwide platform of unlimited power with which to attack us… very sad but very true! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 This makes it even more critical to secure our external-facing services as much …
Have you secured your IIS Web Server? Read More »
If you aren’t licensed for and using Conditional Access policies, please do not disable the security defaults feature just because something isn’t working (e.g. scan to email). Microsoft introduced the defaults for a very good reason – they realised that tenants without Azure AD Premium P1 licensing and correctly configured CA policies were wide open …
Please do NOT disable Security Defaults! Read More »
Hello and happy 2022! 🥳 I hope the year has started off as well as it possibly can for you (aside from the holiday ending a bit too early of course!)… 🍺😭 …right back to work! Now, is your Exchange environment safe!!?? Really? Is it? I love this utility called ‘SMTP Diag Tool’. It’s great …
Is your Hybrid Exchange Server SAFE or unknowingly EXPOSED? Read More »
Hey! I hope you are well.. 🤘 🙂 🤘. This script was a result of the following ponderings: How to monitor and manage the deletion of Blocked (Disabled) and Guest accounts in Azure AD. I have a Dynamic group for ‘Blocked (Disabled) users’, but members include valid Shared Mailbox accounts. What about Guest users… should …
Runbook: Sync Shared Mailbox accounts with an Azure AD Group Read More »
