Tag - baseline

A simpler Conditional Access baseline

Some folks have written to me about the "complexity" of my Conditional Access guide and were hoping to find something a bit simpler. This surprised me, and initially I shrugged it off. But I have heard this feedback more than once now, so I decided to take this thought experiment...
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Revisiting Baseline Policies in Microsoft 365

Microsoft has been doing more to make secure configurations easier to implement for admins. But, from my testing and experience, I still have reservations about some of them. Let's review. Conditional Access Baseline Policies There are presently four baseline policies available under Azure AD > Security > Conditional Access. Require MFA for admins...
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Updated: Exchange Online baseline / best practices scripts

I recently updated the scripts that I use to provision new Exchange Online tenants and configure them according to best practices, and I just uploaded these edits to GitHub. The main script is Baseline-ExchangeOnline.ps1--this is like a "master" script that contains almost all of the others (with a couple of...
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