As organizations expand their use of SharePoint across regions, projects, and teams, the number of sites continues to grow rapidly. Over time, admins lose clear visibility into who owns each SharePoint site and why it exists. Also, identifying relevant & active sites will be difficult to enforce governance consistently. To…
Towards the end of last year, Microsoft introduced a major pricing update. Now, Microsoft is changing how subscriptions are handled once they reach the end of their term. Until now, customers could either renew a subscription or turn off auto-renew and rely on an automatic 90-day free grace period to maintain service access. While this approach offered flexibility, it…
Many organizations still have years of collaboration stored in Slack, while day-to-day work now happens in Microsoft Teams. This split leaves critical conversations, threaded discussions, attachments, and team knowledge trapped in Slack, creating fragmented collaboration. It also adds pressure on organizations to manage multiple platforms and ensure that no important information is lost. This…
When users sign in to Microsoft 365 web apps using Google Chrome, sometimes you can notice that the ‘Device ID’ and ‘Join Type’ fields are blank in Entra ID sign-in logs. As a result, the device is treated as Unknown, and even Conditional Access policies may not be enforced as…
For a long time, Microsoft Teams supported blocking external users only from the Teams admin center, offering limited control for security teams. Key limitations includes: Now, Microsoft allows security teams to block external users directly from the Defender portal using the Tenant Allow/Block List (TABL) feature. This centralized control enables security teams to act immediately in Defender without…
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the most effective defenses against identity-based attacks. Even when credentials are compromised, MFA provides a crucial second layer of protection that helps prevent unauthorized access. Among the available MFA methods, the Microsoft Authenticator app is the most widely used, serving as a trusted endpoint…
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