13Jul2024
29Feb2024
My Favorite Multi-tenant Tools for Microsoft 365 Cloud
Today I want to address something that Managed Services Providers in particular struggle with daily. And that is managing dozens if not hundreds of Microsoft tenants, each of which represents a unique security boundary, with its own set of users, devices, licenses, security configurations, and so on. This problem is...
24Nov2023
Happy Holidays, and a New Course
Hey everyone, I just wanted to send out a quick note about the new course on CIS Controls, and to extend a Holiday discount on all of the ITProMentor.com courses in honor of the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday thing. So, let's get that out of the way first: Now through the...
09Mar2022
Unboxing Microsoft Defender for Business, Part 4: Integration with MEM and Conditional Access
Welcome back to this series! Microsoft Defender for Business (MDB) is a huge product with lots of ground to cover. So far we have discussed the Simplified configuration process, Threat & Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Reduction Rules. Since we began our...
01Feb2022
Unboxing Defender for Business, Part 2: Threat & Vulnerability Management
Last time we looked at how to get started with Microsoft Defender for Business and the so-called "Simplified configuration process," which helped us onboard our first Windows devices and apply basic policies to manage antivirus and firewall settings across the organization. In this blog post, we will ask the...
18Nov2021
More details on Microsoft Defender for Business (MDB)
Perhaps the biggest Microsoft product announcement this year for SMB customers was Microsoft Defender for Business, an Enterprise-grade endpoint security solution which is based on the wildly successful Microsoft Defender for Endpoint product. As previously noted on this blog,...
01Nov2021
Announcing the Microsoft 365 SMB Data Protection Toolkit
Update March 2023: This product has been updated significantly, and renamed too. It is now called The SMB Guide to Data Protection and Microsoft Purview in Microsoft 365 Business Premium Plans. It still contains the written guide as well as supporting materials such as scripts and templates to help you...
15Oct2021
Automating third-party software deployments and updates with Intune and Scappman
Hey folks!For those of you in my audience who work at Managed Services Providers (MSP's), I wanted to introduce you to a product called Scappman that I am really excited about. Rarely do I come across something like this, which solves such an important problem in...
06Jan2021
Announcing the Practice Development Community and Monthly Educational Series
Today is a big day here at ITProMentor.com. We are entering a new year, and we have a big agenda to go along with it! In my recent surveys many of you indicated interest in gathering together and forming a community. As well,...
16Nov2020