11Dec2019
04Dec2019
Still waiting for full Azure AD Premium P1 in Microsoft 365 Business…and other Christmas wish list items.
Update March 2020: Spotted today in the message center: Thank you for listening, Microsoft! I had written on this topic a while ago, and many of the components that we were looking to get from Azure AD Premium P1 have in fact arrived since that time (such as password write-back and Conditional...
25Nov2019
Unpopular opinion: Do not restrict users from creating Teams (Office 365 Groups)
I realize that advocating for no (or very limited) boundaries on who can create Teams puts me in the minority. When I look out across the community, I mostly see consultants in this space suggesting the opposite is a superior approach for various reasons--that the privilege should be constrained heavily....
21Nov2019
When would I recommend Windows Virtual Desktop to a customer?
Call me crazy: I don't see the value in a Remote Desktop or Virtual Desktop experience for its own sake. The purpose of this kind of solution is to provide centralized management and remote access to specifically Windows-based applications. In short: Remove your dependency on Windows, and you've removed the...
19Nov2019
Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) vs. traditional RDS or VDI
I want to talk about Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) as the successor to on-prem deployments of Remote Desktop Services (RDS), and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Many small and mid-sized businesses are already familiar with using Remote Desktop or similar (e.g. Citrix, VMware View, etc.). Usually this type of service was...
02Nov2019
You give Encrypt button back NOW, Microsoft!!!!
Recently Sensitivity labels were brought to Outlook, across all the various apps now, including mobile, desktop and web access. This drama has certainly been worth watching. I think Sensitivity labels should gain a lot of traction in general over the next year or two. It's so much more powerful than most...
14Oct2019
Why you shouldn’t disable external sharing (really)
Okay, so anyone who has ever done consulting with Microsoft / Office 365 before has probably heard this question: "Can we disable external sharing?"--Any customer at every Office 365 consulting engagement, ever. Bless their souls, these questions are usually coming from a good place, but to see why this is actually not...
05Oct2019
iPadOS (iOS 13+) still not compatible with MAM enforced by Conditional access
Update 11/18/2019: This issue has now been fixed. I wrote about this before the update dropped, and in my testing since then I am afraid the situation has not improved. The setup Create a Conditional access policy for iOS that requires an approved client app. In other words, users cannot...
25Aug2019
Poser alert: Do you think this may be leveraged for Social engineering? Or what…?
Interesting thing appeared in my WordPress comments over the weekend: it appears that someone lifted content from my blog and re-posted it as their own. Why or how WordPress picked up on this and alerted me via my comments is unknown at this time (maybe some WordPress geeks out there...
03Jul2019