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18Sep2020
Managed Services Providers Are Doing IT All Wrong
As a Microsoft MVP and frequent community contributor, I have been invited to participate as a “subject matter expert” in several groups and online communities. Since I also work for an IT Managed Services Provider, some of these invites have brought me into peer groups comprised of folks who own...
28Jul2020
Is “Best Practices” a myth?
I often find myself musing over this question these days. Granted, I actually do publish something called The Microsoft 365 Best Practices Checklists--but really these are more like recommendations. In fact, I recently updated them to include governance decisions around collaboration (e.g. affecting apps such as OneDrive for Business, Teams...
09Mar2020
New Updates to the Office 365 Security Checklist and Guide, including Free eBook
With more years comes more wisdom (and more reader feedback helps)! As such, it was time to polish up the guide that kicked off this whole journey. This is a big update, and in a much more consumable format, I think. I am even renaming it to "The NEW Office...
01Dec2019
2020 Edition of the Recommended Conditional access policy design guide is available now
I just finished updating the Conditional access design guide, part of the Microsoft 365 Best practices checklists. The new updates reflect some carefully considered feedback from my clients (real-world scenarios), as well as some new additions and a better organizational structure, in three major groups: Authentication Baseline policies – Replaces the Security...
22Nov2019
Updates to my Exchange Online and Office 365 ATP scripts
Just a quick note--this week I updated the Exchange Online and ATP scripts that I publish and use to provision new tenants--to fall more in line with the new best practices that were published by the Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 ATP teams.* You can also use the new...
29Oct2019
New updates to the BP guides PLUS the Office 365 Security Checklist
I have heard from so many people about the Microsoft 365 Best Practices checklists--you guys & gals seem to really like them! I'm pleased to hear it. Although all of this content is available for FREE on my website, I still hear from folks every day who want a...
01Sep2019
Updated best practices guides, Conditional access policy design and more!
Update March 2023: All of the Best Practices Checklists and Guides have seen major updates since this article was originally posted. You can obtain the Best Practices here. Updates this month include several revisions to the Azure Active Directory Best Practices checklist, and some updates to the Conditional access policy design,...
15Aug2019
Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? Part 3: Data governance
In part 1 of this series, we discussed external sharing and chat. In part 2, we dealt with access controls and notifications. Now, we turn our focus to Data governance, a very important conversation indeed when it comes to compliance. And when it comes to compliance, every organization is going to...
13Aug2019