Well that was enlightening to be sure. If you sometimes wear the hat of a Microsoft 365 admin at your organization, or you work with someone in IT who does, I encourage you to watch the recording of the March 7 webinar that TekkiGurus presented with Mimecast. It's free, funny at times, educational, and you, like me, will learn some actionable steps to improve the computer security for you and your organization.

This article will walk you through some best practices as an IT administrator for a Teams for Education environment. Covering class creation, policy hierarchies and details, file management, external sharing, and controlling other student and teacher capabilities, you'll learn the how and the why for all of Teams for Education's settings.

Those who maintain Windows PCs know they must ensure users’ abilities to access the hardware devices that the OS and applications need to do their jobs. This covers nearly everything imaginable, from mice, keyboards, and monitors to networking, audio, video, biometric, and storage devices of all kinds.

Microsoft 365 Copilot offers benefits that can significantly enhance productivity and efficiency within an organization. However, it is essential to consider the potential challenges and costs associated with its implementation and ongoing use. This article provides Copilot use cases, key considerations, pros, cons, and customization with Copilot Studio.

In the new Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, there are various ways to build out your data platform. You can build a typical data warehouse, or you can go for the more modern data lakehouse. In this article, we'll cover both options in detail so you can make an informed choice on which path you're going to take in your Fabric implementation.

Network security in Microsoft Azure can be handled either by Network Security Groups, which is free, or Azure Firewall, which is a paid feature. Azure Firewall is often worth it for its ability to more granularly manage network traffic. In this article, I cover the advantages of Azure Firewall to help you decide whether it’s worth the investment for your organization.

The OneDrive group policy "Start OneDrive automatically when signing in to Windows" has been highly anticipated among administrators. Enabling this feature ensures synchronization is consistently active, preventing conflicts with outdated files. This policy, controllable through the registry, streamlines user experience and promotes collaboration.

This is part 4 of “Designing a delegation model in Active Directory”. In this video, Mahdi explains how to proceed to perform the mirroring of Access Control Lists (ACLs) using the newly created groups. By mirroring ACL, we mean to assign the same delegation the users had but this time instead of relying on old groups or using the direct delegation, it is done using the created groups we created in part 3 of this series. Mahdi also explains that the cleanup needs to be done in order to remove the old unwanted ACLs.

Microsoft 365 provides robust Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies to prevent unauthorized access, misuse, or transfer of sensitive data. Microsoft 365's user-friendly interface simplifies the management of DLP policies. Customized DLP policies created using the compliance center classify data based on sensitivity, communicate guidelines organization-wide, and adapt to evolving data protection needs. In this article, learn guidelines about steps to take before you create DLP policies, which goals to set, and define success criteria, then learn tips for how to create DLP policies and how to roll them out.

This “how to” article teaches you how to run a message trace to generate reports on undelivered emails using the Microsoft 365 Exchange admin center and Windows PowerShell. It also gives steps to investigate why a message failed and how to fix the issue.

I vividly remember working for a company when we had a ransomware attack and everything shifted. We weren't one of those big companies you read about in the news, but wow did it feel significant at the time. "Those companies" that failed to be secure became "us." Years later, I find myself in the role of an M365 Admin and we have everything in the cloud, and I realize AI tools could aid in making something like that happen again. I'll make an effort to learn to prevent it by attending this webinar. Join me, won't you?

For the February 20, 2024, live broadcast of Guardians of M365 Governance, co-hosts Ragnar Heil (@ragnarh) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) will discuss "Best Practices for Copilot and Purview Governance" with M365 and Azure MVP and Microsoft Regional Director Raphael Koellner (@Ra_Koellner), known for his expertise in Microsoft 365 security and compliance, to discuss the best practices for Copilot governance leveraging the capabilities of Microsoft Purview.