Another Office 365 compliance issue swept under the rug

A while back, I was made aware of an interesting issue, namely the fact that OneDrive for Business users can disable indexing for their own drives, effectively disabling functionalities such as eDiscovery or DLP. This of course is yet another issue that stems from the fact that users are Site …

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Device-based Office Pro Plus subscriptions

In another example of history repeating itself, Microsoft has revealed plans to introduce device-based subscription for Office 365 Pro Plus. After years and years of evangelizing the benefits of the subscription-based model, which is tied in to the user identify, the powers that be finally caved to the thousands of …

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Service Health Dashboard improvements and another rant on support

Ignite 2019 is now over and as usual I’ve been spending some time going over sessions I wasn’t able to attend in person. One of these sessions was the “Service Health Dashboard” one, Incident communications at cloud-scale: How Microsoft 365 is improving when things go wrong, presented by Mike Ziock, …

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Office 365 admins need no help (pane)

Over the past few months, Microsoft has been rolling out some updates on the help pane across different Office 365 workloads. The pane now gives you some contextual recommendations and suggestions around the top issues you might encounter, as well as search functionality powered by the results from support.office.com. Or …

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Managing Azure AD Administrative Units via the Graph API

While browsing the Graph API documentation earlier today, I spotted a new addition to the \beta APIs – endpoints to manage Azure AD administrative units. For those of you that aren’t aware of AUs, here’s the one-minute version: AUs are “containers” for user and group objects, which you can then …

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