Published in REgarding 365·Mar 18, 2022Incentivising Microsoft Teams contributions with Power AutomateOne of the most important parts of technology adoption is incentivising people. One simple way to do this is to acknowledge their contributions in Microsoft Teams. I’ve spoken about this before using something like: Custom Praise badges in Microsoft Teams The challenge there is, that this is a manual process…6 min read6 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Feb 25, 2022Automated user tenant access controlIf you ever used an on premises Active Directory (AD) you may be aware of the setting, shown above, that allows you to set users login times. This was typically done to prevent users logging in after hours, say from 9pm to 6am. Unfortunately, with Azure AD there is no…5 min read5 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Jan 18, 2022Offboarding devices from Microsoft Defender for Business using Power AutomateRecently, I wrote an article to make offboard from Microsoft Defender for Business easier: Offboarding devices from Microsoft Defender for Business using an API with PowerShell Because this offboarding process utilises an API we can use that with other services such as Power Automate. Before devices can be offboarded, a…6 min read6 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Jan 3, 2022Celebrating anniversaries with Power AutomateA very common requirement is to remind people about anniversaries. In a business this could take the form of birthdays or commencement dates. It could, however, just as easily be any sort of event that happens on a certain date. Previously, I’ve shown how to: Send recurring tweets using Microsoft…6 min read6 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Dec 8, 2021Adoption with funThe majority of IT products and services are not actually used by IT people (amazing eh?). They are in fact, used by ordinary people (aka Muggels) in businesses, trying to do their job. For these people, changing the way that they work is frustrating because they need to adopt new…5 min read5 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Oct 14, 2021Providing feedback on user reported messagesHopefully, you are aware that Microsoft 365 provides users the ability to report a suspected email. I have spoken about this here: Improved security is a shared responsibility What you may not be aware of is that these submissions can viewed and action in the Microsoft Security Center: https://security.microsoft.com under…2 min read2 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Oct 5, 2021Intelligence not InformationI use the above diagram to help people understand where they should be investing human capital when it comes to security. I see too many people who are responsible for security focused at the Information (top and widest) level of the above diagram. The Information level is a constant deluge…4 min read4 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Jul 13, 2021Getting Message Center information into TeamsSyncing M365 Message Center to Microsoft Planner which took you through the process of getting Message Center information into Microsoft Planner. as good as that it is, the best place for that information should really be in Teams. The reason? With Teams people can ‘chat’ about the topics which adds…3 min read3 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Jul 11, 2021Syncing M365 Message Center to Microsoft PlannerIf you want to stay up to date with what Microsoft is developing and implementing with Microsoft 365, then you should be paying attention to information from the Microsoft 365 Message Center. You’ll find this in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as shown above. One of the options with this…5 min read5 min read
Published in REgarding 365·Jun 17, 2021Using Defender for Endpoint API and Power AutomateI recently detailed: Using defender for Endpoint API and PowerShell to produce this type of output which is all well and good but does lack some flexibility when it comes to output as well as being something you need to manually initiate. …5 min read5 min read