A few days ago, I posted about the major Microsoft 365 outage that hit on January 22-23, affecting Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and multiple admin portals. At the time, services were just coming back online, and we were waiting for the full Post-Incident Report. Well, Microsoft has now published
Are You Experiencing These Symptoms? If you're seeing any of these issues in your Exchange hybrid environment after October 2025, this post will help you understand and fix the problem: User-reported symptoms: Free/busy information shows as unavailable when on-premises users try to schedule meetings with Exchange Online
Microsoft has released a really nice capability to Global Secure Access: B2B guest access. In short, this lets external users (partners, vendors, contractors, etc.) use the Global Secure Access client to reach your private apps in your tenant without you having to hand out corporate laptops or punch extra holes
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA) team, and one of the features I’ve been waiting to talk about is finally here in public preview: 🌐 Internet access over remote networks. If you’ve been following the evolution of Microsoft’s
Over the past weeks, I’ve been working on a new toolbox dashboard to bring all my current and future community tools together in one clean, easy-to-navigate place. The idea was simple: create a central hub with intuitive tiles that make it effortless to jump between tools. I’m launching
Within GSA Internet Access, web category filtering gives administrators the ability to control access based on categories of websites or on specific domain names. Domains can be grouped into categories such as social media, gambling, or adult content, and rules can be created to allow or block traffic to those
Access reviews are essential for keeping your organization secure—but let’s be honest, they’re often a pain. Reviewers are asked to make decisions with little context, leading to rushed approvals or long investigations. Microsoft is changing that with a new AI-powered agent built into Entra ID Governance and
In our previous blog post, we walked through High Volume Email (HVE) in Microsoft 365, a solid option for internal bulk email needs. Now, it’s time to explore a broader alternative—Azure Communication Services (ACS)—to keep your email game strong! If you're still using SMTP AUTH
Picture this: you're managing a hybrid environment, juggling Microsoft Intune and Active Directory like a circus performer with flaming torches. Everything’s going fine until you hear about a security update for the Intune Connector for Active Directory. Suddenly, your torches feel a bit heavier. Fear not! Microsoft’
Here’s Why You Should In today’s digital world, passwords are quickly becoming a thing of the past—and for good reason. If you’re managing identities in Microsoft Entra ID, now is the perfect time to consider Passkeys as your next step in modern authentication. What Are Passkeys?
Microsoft has just rolled out the public preview of Multi-Geo support for Microsoft Entra Private Access, a game-changer for organizations with a global footprint. This feature allows businesses to route network traffic through specific geographic regions, ensuring compliance with data residency requirements, optimizing performance, and enhancing security. Whether you’re
In April 2024, Microsoft dropped a big announcement: Client SMTP submissions using Basic authentication in Exchange Online will be deprecated by September 2025. If your apps, devices, or email clients rely on this method to send emails, it’s time to start planning a switch. Basic auth—where credentials are
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What You Need to Know About TERRL Exchange Online users! Big news from Microsoft: they’re rolling out a fresh set of rules to keep the email highways running smoothly. Starting soon, Microsoft is introducing tenant-level outbound email limits called the Tenant External Recipient Rate Limit—or TERRL for short.
EntraID
In early february 2025, Microsoft announced a new feature (Currently in public preview), that makes it easier for administrators to edit multiple users at once! The "Edit multiple users at once (Preview)" feature, currently in public preview, allows administrators to efficiently manage user profiles in bulk within the
Azure
If you're attempting to set up Disaster Recovery (Preview) on your Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), you might encounter an issue where the ASR Agent fails, as shown below. This issue is caused by a known bug in Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), which blocks the extension
Azure
In the recent Azure Local release 2411, there is a known issue that occurs when trying to deploy or upgrade a cluster. During the validation process, the operation will time out, as shown below. How do we fix this? Depending on your scenario, choose one of the following workarounds for
Azure
Azure Stack HCI is now a part of Azure Local. Microsoft has renamed Azure Stack HCI to Azure Local to communicate a single brand that unifies the entire distributed infrastructure portfolio 🧐How does this affect your existing deployments? If you're currently using Azure Stack HCI today or previously
EntraID
Entra Private Access, which is Generally Available, already supports the TCP Protocol (e.g., RSP, SSH, SMB, etc.) and the UDP protocol (e.g., DFS, SMB, RDP). Now, with Private DNS support, network administrators can publish DNS suffixes from their internal network and naming structure to allow machines with the
EntraID
Starting on or after October 15, 2024, to further increase security, Microsoft will require admins to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing into the Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Microsoft Intune admin center. Note: This requirement will also apply to any services accessed through the Intune admin
Microsoft 365
Starting on September 1, all license assignments will only be available through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (admin.microsoft.com). If you’re using Microsoft Graph or PowerShell for license assignments, don’t worry - nothing’s changing for you. Just a quick heads up 😎
EntraID
Microsoft has announced that on August 30 2024 admins wont be able to receive user passwords in email from the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal. (See below image for what is going away..) Microsoft instead, recommends using the new "Print" option that is up-coming in the admin center, to
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Microsoft announces the general availability of Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, aimed at eliminating security gaps and extending Conditional Access and continuous access evaluation to all applications and resources, both on-premises and in the cloud. 👇 Below is some of the keypoints of Microsoft's SSE: 💡 Secure access with a
Microsoft 365
User assignment for traffic forwarding profiles is now in Public Preview, allowing you to scope which users to apply Forwarding profiles (M365, Internet or Private) to.🔒 Key Capabilities in Public Preview:- Assign to specific users or user groups with an easy-to-manage interface.- Assign to all users with a
EntraID
When collaborating with external partners in Microsoft Entra ID, multiple guest accounts may expanding over time. After collaboration ends, these accounts may become inactive. Administrators can manage these accounts efficiently using inactive guest insights and Access Reviews, which automatically review, block sign-ins, and delete inactive guest users. 💡In this short