Monitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring MFA-Server and Office365 MFA...
We use both Azure MFA Server to secure our on-site resources, and Office365 MFA for our clients. To make sure we don’t have aggressors changing the MFA settings, or simply administrators forgetting to...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell Chapter 3: Monitoring Modern Authentication
Modern Authentication is turned on by default for new tenants, but if you have legacy tenants or take over tenants from others MSP’s than sometimes you might have tenants that do not use Modern...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Office C2R updates
This blog might be a little shorter than normally, I’ve been a bit swamped with work so if you have any questions, let me know! This time we’re going to monitor the update status of Microsoft Office...
View ArticleUsing the Secure Application Model with PartnerCenter 2.0 for Office365.
I was recently informed that my scripts for the secure application model no longer worked. This is due to Microsoft updating the PartnerCenter module with some breaking changes. To make sure you can...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Office365 Azure AD Sync
We deploy Azure AD Sync for all of our clients that have hybrid environments. Sometimes the Office365 Azure AD Sync might break down, due to the Accidental Deletion Threshold or no longer perform...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring failed logins for Office365
So this was another request by a reader; he has MFA configured for all his users, but still wants to know when the failed logon count increases. Mostly so he can warn his users that a possible...
View ArticleMonitoring with PowerShell: Monitoring Office365 admin password changes
So when I was at Dattocon I was approached by an MSP that was using his RMM system to alert on changes of the local admin password, as he wanted to be updated every time a local admin got a new...
View ArticleConverting group policy registry preferences to PowerShell scripts
Most of the clients at my firm are moving to cloud only solutions in which we have less management options available. We can use Intune for Administrative Templates, or as we do use our RMM system as...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell: Documenting Office365 mailbox permissions
I like being able to report to our clients exactly what the permissions on mailboxes are. The only issue with reporting via the Office 365 admin portal is that we don’t get a history. I’ve decided to...
View ArticleDocumenting with PowerShell: Increasing the Office365 Secure Score.
So previously we’ve spoken about documenting the Office 365 Secure Score. For a great resource on this I’d suggest you check out Eliot’s blog on documenting the Secure Score here. Its a fantastic...
View ArticleCreating hosted mailboxes while on premises mailboxes still exist.
Using DirSync or AADSync sometimes has its drawbacks when you want to migrate using third party tools... The post Creating hosted mailboxes while on premises mailboxes still exist. appeared first on...
View ArticleStop AADSync logs from clogging up your servers disk space
I've been rolling out a lot of large AADSync deployments recently - I love how AADSync gives a SSO experience to the SMB markets without having to deploy ADFS. But as always these deployments in SMB...
View ArticleUsing Azure MFA on an onsite RDS 2012R2
Azure MFA is a fantastic product – Its easy to setup and maintain, and not very costly to purchase (for pricing, click here). The great thing about Azure MFA is that it becomes very easy to secure your...
View ArticleManaging Office 365/Azure tenants using powershell
One of the fantastic benefits of having Microsoft partner portal access is the ability to remote manage your clients/tenants. One of the downsides of this is that the partner portal is sometimes...
View ArticleHow to remove “local autodiscover” or SCP when migrating to O365
I work in the SMB, and we migrate most of our clients to Office 365 from local exchange servers. Often we still use a local server for user and computer management and move the users from Small...
View ArticleCreating a Poor Man’s Express Route
Lately we’ve been running into issues with client’s connecting to Office 365 and having high latency with this connection. this results in issues such as “Outlook is not Responding” & “Getting data...
View ArticleAdding branding to the Office 365 portal
Hi all, Today we’re going to change the branding of the Office365 portal. Something that helps clients identify that they are logging into the correct portal and are entering their usernames correctly....
View ArticleRunning Office365 Powershell scripts cross tenant
When you manage multiple tenants or have a Microsoft Partner account to manage a lot of tenants it often gets annoying having to redeploy the same scripts to each tenant over and over. You can try...
View ArticleConnecting to all O365 services at the same time in PowerShell (Including...
I often use scripts that uses cmdlets from different modules so I can use all sorts of data sets when handling my Office365 administration tasks. The problem is that I often found myself connecting to...
View ArticleDeploy MFA to all Administrator accounts in all (Partner) tenants
As a MSP we tend to take over a lot of Microsoft tenants which therefore do not have their state of security in order. To make sure that we always use MFA for administration purposes we have an Azure...
View ArticleUsing the Secure App Model to connect to microsoft partner resources
This is a quick and dirty blog, as I am quite busy editing our PowerShell Functions to use the secure app model before the deadline of august first. Microsoft has announced that any Microsoft partner...
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