18Oct2018
15Oct2018
Showdown: Office 365 Business Premium or leap for Microsoft 365 Business Edition?
Organizations who are moving to Office 365 are always faced with the same dilemma: where to start? What subscription bundle should you buy? There can be a lot of anxiety produced in this decision making, since there are getting to be so many different choices, and it isn't always clear...
11Oct2018
Understanding the Anti-Spoofing technology in Exchange Online
In the Spring of 2018, Microsoft released some new anti-spoofing features into their Advanced Threat Protection product, which is also bundled into Microsoft & Office 365 E5 plans, as well as Microsoft 365 Business. Anti-spoofing leverages machine learning and other intelligent software to determine whether messages have been "spoofed" or...
04Oct2018
How to configure journaling, and the undeliverable reports mailbox, in Exchange Online
In Office 365 Exchange Online, it is possible to setup journal rules. When you turn on journaling, a copy of email messages that you specify will be written to another (third-party) location. It is not supported to write the journal into another mailbox hosted at Office 365, however, there are...
01Oct2018
Should I stick with Microsoft 365 Business or move up to Enterprise?
Microsoft 365 is best described as a "bundle of bundles"--these new SKU's go beyond Office 365, and include advanced security products as well as device management and even your Windows licensing. I have been writing a lot about the Microsoft 365 Business SKU, since it has such an attractive price...
28Sep2018
Prepare for the Upgrade from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams
As you may or may not have heard, Microsoft is encouraging organizations to begin the upgrade path toward Teams, as they have now reached "feature parity" between the two products (they will no longer be actively developing Skype for Business Online). In fact, new customers under 500 seats (that means...
27Sep2018
Security Reports and Identity Protection features available in Azure AD, Azure AD Premium P1 and P2
Azure AD Premium P1 is included with Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) E3. I have been experimenting with numerous aspects of this subscription, since security is such a high priority these days, especially for the SMB (small businesses are statistically far more more likely to be targeted than large enterprises). As...
24Sep2018
Using Security & Compliance Center to manage retention policies
Today I want to discuss retention policies, which can be administered via the Security & Compliance admin center in Microsoft 365 / Office 365. Retention policies exist to protect and/or purge (delete) certain types of information. Some organizations have very strict archive and retention policies that they must maintain data...
20Sep2018
How to enable auditing in Exchange Online
Microsoft 365 has a powerful Security & Compliance center that is becoming cooler every quarter that goes by. However, one rather important piece to understand is that auditing (logging of certain activities) is not turned on by default. They are in the process of updating this to be on by...
17Sep2018