In December 2019 Microsoft included support for Plus Addressing in their roadmap (ID 59441) for Office 365. In the meantime this feature is released but needs to be enabled before it can be used. What is Plus Addressing? Plus addressing has been available for a while now in other email services like Google Gmail. It…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 11 featuring Tim Hermie & Jasper Bernaers on Tuesday September 29th
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week Tuesday, September 29th we are proud to announce that Tim Hermie, senior Modern Workplace architect at Synergics and Enterprise Mobility MVP & Jasper Bernaers, Modern…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 10 featuring Ronny de Jong on Tuesday September 15th
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. We hope you enjoyed your holiday even in these strange times, we from the WMUG_NL did and are looking forward to organize meetings again for our still growing…
Are you already synchronizing your Message Center messages to Planner? Here is why you should
Microsoft 365 changes regularly, changes are implemented almost on a daily basis and as an Admin responsible for the service you must be aware of which changes are coming to your tenant. In order to inform administrators Microsoft uses the Message Center. From within the message center administrative users are also automatically subscribed to weekly…
Microsoft is making changes related to automatic email forwarding for ATP customers, here is what you need to know
In February this year I blogged about Stopping automatic email forwarding in your Exchange Online environment in a controlled way providing a structural way to disable automatic email forwarding within your organization, while still allowing exceptions. This week Microsoft announced through the message center (MC220853) they are rolling out the External Email Forwarding Controls functionality…
How to prevent your users from downloading and installing Office via the Office portals
If your goal is to restrict the usage of Office applications on non-managed devices and only allow Web access in limited mode (as explained in my article: Limit Access to Outlook Web Access, SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions) you might ask yourself if you want the Office applications to be…
Assigning groups to Azure AD roles and Privileged access groups, a first look!
On August 13th 2020, Alex Simons (Microsoft Identity PM) announced that assigning groups to Azure AD roles in now in public preview. This feature is one of the most requested features to be found in the Azure AD feedback forum. I have been following this feature request for a while now, and up until recently…
Self Service Purchasing for Power Platform, Visio and Project, should you keep it enabled or disable the functionality?
In October 2019, Microsoft announced that it would enable end users to buy and manage their own licenses within their corporate account. At that time this “feature” was announced for the Power Platform: PowerApps, Flow (now Power Automate) and Power BI. After that announcement Microsoft received critical feedback from tenant administrators where eventually Microsoft allowed…
Office 365 Templated policies and Preset security policies in Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 ATP
In my deep dive article on Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) I mentioned that Microsoft provides best practices as described in the following article: “Recommended settings for EOP and Office 365 ATP security“. When implementing the settings in the article you either have the option to go for a “Standard” or “Strict” security level,…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 9 featuring Derk van der Woude on Tuesday July 7th
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week, July 7th we are proud to announce that Derk van der Woude, Principal consultant Security and Compliance at InSpark will talk about “Azure Sentinel Brute…
Limit Access to Outlook Web Access, SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions
One of the scenario’s we can build with Conditional Access, is the scenario where we restrict access inside the web application itself. By doing so, you could for example limit the functionality of the web applications on non-managed devices, or when accessing the web application from a country where your company normally doesn’t operate. The…
Completed the Azure Solution Architect Expert Certification
After earning my Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert certification in May, I decided to continue my certification journey and earn the Azure certification. Today I completed the last exam in order to earn the Azure Solution Architect Expert certification. The Azure Solution Architect Expert Certification is earned by completing two exams: AZ-300: Microsoft Azure…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 8 featuring Tim De Keukelaere on Tuesday June 30th
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week, June 30th we are proud to announce that Tim De Keukelaere, freelance consultant and Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility will talk about “Latest and greatest in…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 7 featuring Jörgen Nilsson
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week, June 9th we are proud to announce that Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant at Onevinn in Sweden and Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility will talk about “MECM…
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 6 featuring Bob Cornelissen
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week, June 2nd we are proud to announce that Bob Cornelissen, Managing consultant at TopQore and Microsoft MVP will talk about “Monitoring in a hybrid world”…