If 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…

Recently, 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…

A 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…

The 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…

Hopefully, 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…

I 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…

Syncing 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…

If 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…

I 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. There is way to deliver more using Power…