Today is the first of July. This is a very special day for every Microsoft MVP. On this day the new fiscal year at Microsoft begins and this also means that the new MVP cycle starts. On this day (or let’s say the night before the first of July) most MVP’s are more tense than […]
In this article I would like to talk about the deployment of Office 365. We can prepare, automate, customize, etc. a lot in our Microsoft Admin Portals. Nevertheless, it happens again and again that parts of the service do not work. My experience has shown me that in more than 90% of the cases, one […]
The current COVID-19 threat forces more and more companies to use collaburation tools. There are some on the market which are better or worse for this purpose. I myself as a consultant advise my customers on the topic of Microsoft Teams. One question that comes up again and again is the storage of company data. […]
What is the Azure Application Proxy? Azure AD Application Proxy is a feature of Azure AD Premium and Azure AD Basic. It allows publication of internal web-based application to provide Internet access to authorized users in the corporate domain. The Azure AD Application Proxy can be used in place of internal Web Application Proxy Servers […]
At the end of April, Microsoft announced in its Message Center update that Microsoft Bookings, a self-service scheduling tool, will be available for Office 365 from mid-May. Read in this article what you should know about it. What is Microsoft Booking? Microsoft Bookings is an online and mobile app for small businesses who provide services […]
What has been mentioned for a long time is now becoming a fact, Microsoft Kaizala will be integrated into Office 365. Almost a year ago, Microsoft announced that Kaizala will become a permanent part of Microsoft teams: “we will be bringing Kaizala capabilities into Microsoft Teams as an integrated offering. We expect […]
Microsoft sees midsize businesses as users of Office 365 and is setting things in motion to facilitate the migration of a local Exchange environment to the online office. For example, the Microsoft Hybrid Wizard with the Hybrid Agent has received an update that has been available since last February and was updated in April 2019. […]
Prolog Recently, I have been getting inquiries from customers, who have the following scenario: The environment was originally an on-premises infrastructure. Then the customers have decided to switch to Office 365 and implemented this step as follow: The AAD was configured to sync the user accounts to the cloud, but without the Exchange attributes. […]
With Intune you can manage devices and apps of your employees as well as their access to your company data. To use this Mobile Device Management (MDM) system, devices must first be registered for the Intune service. However, there are several ways to register your employee’s devices. Each method depends on the type of device […]
Prolog At this point I am happy to present the third part of my series “Phishing attack simulation”. In this article we will focus on Brute force Password (Dictionary) attacks. A brute-force attack dictionary is an automated, trial-and-error method of generating multiple passwords guesses from a dictionary file against a user’s password. Identical to Spear […]
Prolog In my last article about this topic I have described how you can perform simulated phishing attacks on your own infrastructure. This is all about raising the awareness of your own employees. If you haven’t read this article yet, I recommend you do that later. This article is based in many points of the […]
Prolog One of the biggest dangers in the industry for IT professionals is attacks on their own company network. There are different types of attacks. As I have described in a previous article, one of the biggest threats are phishing attacks. There are several providers of employee training aimed at improving awareness of such attacks […]
