Kerberos Constrained Delegations Crossing AD Security Boundaries
Kerberos Delegations can be confusing, but it is important to understand how delegations behave when configured across trust boundaries.
August 22, 2022
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Using Managed Identities with the Microsoft Graph SDK and Teams PowerShell Modules
This article covers how to use an Azure managed identity with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and Microsoft Teams modules in an automation runbook.
August 17, 2022
Microsoft Extends Retirement Date for Azure AD and MSOL License Assignment Cmdlets
Microsoft has extended the deprecation date for the Azure AD license management cmdlets to March 31, 2023. After that time, the cmdlets won't work. The strong recommendation is to replace all the old Azure AD and MSOL license management cmdlets in scripts with Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets or Graph API requests. You have an extra 7 months to do the job, do there's no excuse!
August 1, 2022
Teams get big features improving usability & security, and Microsoft Ignite is back in-person: Practical 365 Podcast S3 Ep. 7
In episode 3 of season two, Paul Robichaux and Steve Goodman chat about a flurry of new Microsoft Teams features - including the long-awaited Teams Connect shared channels going into general availability, plus Microsoft's headline conference for IT professionals is back in-person - but will it be the same?
July 28, 2022
Azure AD Connect Group Writeback Deep Dive
After spending some time to better understand how Azure AD Connect Group Writeback v1.0 works with the attribute flow and some possible use cases, I’ve come up with some practical pointers for you to understand as you consider a deployment.
July 28, 2022
Troubleshooting Recently Activated Permissions in Privileged Identity Management
You just activated the Exchange admin role (or any other role) via Privileged Identity Management (PIM), but the Microsoft portal still indicates that you have insufficient permissions to perform your task. Don’t panic, this blog will help you to load freshly activated permissions faster.
July 27, 2022
Azure AD Group Writeback Launched and Now Available
On July 6, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure AD Group Writeback. As is usual with announcements of this nature, it created several questions. In this article, I want to explain some higher-level details about the new feature.
July 13, 2022
TEC Talk Follow-up: Office 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations
In April, we had over 450 attendees join and ask questions in our TEC Talk on lessons learned from Office 365 tenant to tenant migrations. Get the highlights and the Q&A to the top questions asked!
June 27, 2022
Performing a Conditional Access Assessment with PowerShell
Conditional access policies grow and change as the tenant grows and changes, but not all of the old policies, groups and assignments are not always tidied up, leaving complex web of policies that target different groups or apps. To gain insights into this mess, I created a PowerShell script to document not just Conditional Access policy settings, but also detail who is impacted by each policy and why.
June 20, 2022
Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Manage Third-Party Apps Better
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.
June 15, 2022
When You Should Disable Azure AD Security Defaults
Security Defaults is a control in Azure Active Directory which has been around since 2019 and is enabled by default on new tenants created after October 2019. Microsoft recently announced they will now start turning on Azure AD security defaults for existing tenants. Throughout this blog we will explore what this means and if Security Defaults is the right fit for your organization.
June 13, 2022
Microsoft 365 Admin Training at The Experts Conference 2022 in Atlanta, GA
Practical365.com is a proud sponsor of The Experts Conference 2022. TEC is all about providing practical Microsoft 365 and Hybrid Activity Directory security, administration, and migration training without the fluff. All content is sourced from the very best in these fields, including Practical365.com authors, Microsoft MVPs, and Microsoft engineers.
June 7, 2022