Patching Servers and Souls – A SysAdmin’s Life
It’s time to thank our super heroes of IT – Our System Administrators! Happy System Administrator’s Appreciation Day.
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Sysadmin: The Overlooked Crisis Manager
It’s been three months since the first Coronavirus case was confirmed in China. Since then, the virus has gone on a world tour, striking country after country in both hemispheres. The events that have unfolded as a result are truly tragic. To look on the brighter side though, the pandemic has given us the time…
Why having Zero Trust in your Cybersecurity is a good thing…
Cybersecurity and Healthcare have a lot in common which isn’t immediately visible to the average eye. Take, for instance, the ‘Response Plan’ in case of an incident. Identification of the breach is usually the first step in case of a cybersecurity incident. This is followed by containment, eradication, and recovery. Similarly, a Health incident response…
2020 End-of-Support Milestone in Office 365
Microsoft often introduces new technologies and features to provide best-in-class service to the administrators and users. However, it’s hard to adopt new technology when it comes to the organization as it involves a lot of migration. Also, its usual to say good-bye to the old one when the new thing arrives. Here, we have documented…
How to Block Self-Service Purchase for Power Platform, Project and Visio Products Using PowerShell
Microsoft is providing the configuration to disable Office 365 self-service purchase for Power platform, Visio and Projects products as most admins wanted to disable self-service purchase.
Managing Private Channels in Microsoft Teams
Private Channel is the most awaited feature in Microsoft Teams. Private Channel availability announced at Microsoft Ignite along with more updates and enhancements in Microsoft Teams. So, what is a Private Channel? Private channels in Microsoft Teams create focused spaces for collaboration within your teams. Private channels provide you the ability to have a channel within a Microsoft Team that…
Ignite Update: What’s new in Microsoft Teams for the End-Users and Administrators?
The ignite session ‘Microsoft Teams by Jared Spataro’ came with a bundle of new features and surprises. Microsoft Teams is continuing to be the fastest-growing business app in Microsoft history. Microsoft Teams Adoption by Numbers: 13 million daily active users. 19 million weekly active users. 53 Languages are supported. 90% Fortune 100 Companies use Teams. Many new feature announcements are unveiled in Ignite-19. We have…
12 Ignite Sessions to Improve Microsoft Teams Strategy
There is no doubt that Microsoft Teams is growing in terms of user base and its rich features. As an admin, we always find it challenging to keep up to date with Teams’ new features and best practices. Let’s keep an eye on Microsoft Ignite (2019) sessions related to Microsoft Teams to improve our Teams…
Now Audit Risky Sign-In Attempts and more with AdminDroid Office 365 Reporter
We are happy to announce the new capabilities introduced in our June 2019 update (Version 3.6.1.0). In this blog post, we are going to outline just the major additions; you shall see more enhancements while exploring the latest version of AdminDroid Office 365 Reporter. A quick glance about the major additions: 20+ New Reports on…
Streamline your Office 365 MFA Deployment with Efficient Reporting and Auditing
As an Office 365 Admin, you are bound to secure all your Office 365 users. A robust method to do that is by deploying Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) which protects you even when your password gets stolen. Once you have decided to deploy MFA, there are two main challenges you face – Enabling MFA for right…