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Why is Legacy Authentication BAD? Legacy Auth, or Basic Auth as it’s also called, is a term used to refer to authentication protocols used by applications that do not use Modern Authentication such as: Older Office clients (e.g., Office 2010 client) Clients that use mail protocols such as IMAP/SMTP/POP Modern authentication is based on the …
Hi again. So it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I’ve been busy working and speaking at a couple of events. I spoke at SharePoint Saturday Cape Town on 13th April and I also spoke at Global Azure Bootcamp this Saturday the 27th April. GAB is a global event hosted by local …
Enabling password-less phone sign-in with the Authenticator App for Office 365 / Azure AD So, the Password-less phone sign-in with the Microsoft Authenticator app documentation from Microsoft is pretty substantial, but I wanted to add some of my own notes from my experience in enabling phone sign-in on a tenant: TLDR: Admins Users Enable it …
Recently I visited The Cloud Architects and we had a discussion about my session at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Johannesburg. Check out the video:
Hi again, in this video update I discuss some of the things that caught my eyes in the Office 365, Exchange, EMS and Azure space. Below are the topics and the links I discussed in the YouTube video. Please Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Exchange Space 13/02 You Had Me At EHLO – February 2019 …
So today I discovered an issue with Outlook Mobile for Android. If you receive an email with multiple recipients and you choose to reply to it, you can edit the recipients, however the CC recipients are not displayed for editing and therefore, you will unexpectedly reply to everyone in the CC field regardless of the …
Microsoft have this habit of using acronyms and re-using acronyms for new products and rebranding stuff and it gets very confusing. For example WAP used to stand for Windows Azure Platform, which today is known as Azure Stack or Microsoft Azure and the acronym WAP in Microsoft speak now is for Windows Application Proxy. Two …
In a recent update, Microsoft announced that all Azure AD tenants will require MFA for privileged Azure AD accounts through a “Baseline” Conditional Access Policy. Privileged Azure AD accounts have unrestricted access to your environment. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) typically, Username, Password and verification PIN or Biometric, adds a critical second layer of security. The most common privileged account …
Check out the the new exciting features in the latest release of AAD Connect: http://www.expta.com/2018/05/aad-connect-118190-now-includes-new.html?m=1
If you, like some organisations, are concerned about data leakage via Office 365 resources such as SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business. There are certainly good options to prevent Data Leakage natively in the Office 365 space using DLP policies and other protection mechanisms, but suppose you are faced with an urgent call …