What’s the skinny? Microsoft has released an update to the MicrosoftTeams PowerShell module (v1.1.4) that supports a new setting that allows an IT admin to set the meeting lobby options for admitted users to “OnlyMe”. This is a welcome update as we head back to school to keep students safe! Note: You will likely want…
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The industry as a whole is moving more towards a Zero Trust mindset as we move away from on-premises network based perimeters to cloud native / cloud first solutions. The video below will walk you through ten tips to start you on your journey of achieving a Zero Trust mindset. This is not the answer…
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Dear SysAdmin, This is a simple appreciation post to all the system administrators in the education industry that make learning happen each and every day. Especially in these unprecedented times. You are so important and so valued. You are true heroes. Sometimes your work might go unnoticed, and sometimes that’s a really good thing. In…
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What’s the skinny? Welcome back ContosoEDU world! We all know that the world for our digital accounts has changed drastically since the old days of Windows NT. With the ever growing reliance on cloud based services (SaaS being a huge one) we now more than ever need to focus on protecting our identities. Once of…
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Introduction In May 2020, Microsoft introduced the ability to download attendance reports for meetings in Microsoft Teams. Today you can only do this once enabled on a meeting policy per user, via PowerShell, so an IT admin must be the one to perform this action. This post will be updated once other methods are realized.…
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Want to have Azure AD provision users and groups into G Suite? No longer want to have a reliance on Google’s on-premises sync tool? Well come on in and learn how to do just that!
Have you used the message center in M365 before? Don’t know what that is? Read this then it might just help you out a bit!
Update 5/13/20: Microsoft has recently updated the name of “Office 365 ProPlus” to “Microsoft 365 Apps”. The majority of this post has been updated to reflect those changes. In addition the OSD section has been updated and a new section called “DBA Clean Up”. Introduction Hi there! It’s been a while! The last blog I…
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Learn how to apply a specific messaging policy to just students using some PowerShell magic!
This is a quick and dirty post with some pre-canned information I send to my customers when the conversation of “how do I manage licensing” comes up. I’ll come back and add more context but for now this should be a great starting point for most any EDU organization!
