Create custom admin roles for the Security and Compliance Center

Many organizations want to tightly control the different admin functions delegated to members of their IT operations or Helpdesk teams. With the latest additions to the Security and Compliance Center in Office 365, we can now create custom management roles and grant just the right set of permissions. Managing SCC …

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Connecting to both ExO and SCC using the MFA-enabled PowerShell module

There seems to be an unfortunate issue with the recently updated Exchange Online PowerShell module that brings support for Modern authentication for the Security and Compliance Center cmdlets. Namely, the script’s Connect-EXOPSSession function, used to establish the connectivity for both the ExO and SCC parts, clears out every remote session upon …

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Enforcing idle session timeout restrictions in SharePoint Online

So Ignite is over and now it’s time to catch up on all the cool new Office 365 and Azure AD features announced or showcased. One such cool feature is the ability to configure custom idle session timeout window for SharePoint Online, as showcased in this session: https://youtu.be/1vnGXvjOm98?t=911 To configure …

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Security and Compliance Center (SCC) PowerShell finally supports Modern authentication

Modern authentication, ADAL or MFA are all different things, but often used to designate the same scenario – using additional authentication factor when logging in to Office 365. Generally speaking, the added security is a great thing, especially important for any privileged accounts. The different teams at Microsoft however have …

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