15Apr2020
14May2019
Introducing the Microsoft Office 365 Email Security Checklist
Update March 2023: This project morphed into the Microsoft 365 Best Practices Checklists, which includes a checklist and guide for each of the major services in Microsoft 365. You can get the product here. Okay. I think I have had enough. Enough of what? Enough of reports like this...
07Mar2019
Add-ons that are NOT compatible with Microsoft 365 Business (yet)
Update 3/9/2019: I had to update this article. I am moving some former content on Identity & Threat Protection to its own article, and expanding on it there.Microsoft 365 Business is a fantastic value, and contains most of what we would like to see in a small business subscription. However,...
22Oct2018
Understanding Email authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC) in Office 365 Exchange Online
For a long time now, we administrators have had the ability to provide email authentication for our customers using SPF, DKIM and DMARC. However, an embarrassingly low percentage of us actually take advantage of these tools. That means it is fairly trivial business for a third party to spoof messages...
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...
27Aug2018
How to configure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) part 3: safe links
This will be our last post in this series on Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). We have previously covered anti-phishing policies and safe attachments. Now we will consider safe links. Safe links are basically just taking hyperlinks which exist in Exchange email messages or other content...
23Aug2018
How to configure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) part 2: safe attachments
In the previous post, we introduced ATP and one of its key features, anti-phishing polices. ATP is an advanced security product from Microsoft, which is included with Microsoft 365 Business, Office 365 E5, or as a separate add-on to any other subscription, for $2.00/user/month (USD). Today we will explore another...
20Aug2018