Author Archives: Vasil Michev

Login events in the Office 365 Audit log for the “Unknown” principal

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Vasil Michev

Reviewing the Office 365 Audit log is one of the recommendations you will often find in any resource that focuses on Security and compliance. One such example is the Securing privileged access for hybrid and cloud deployments in Azure AD article. … Continue reading →

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Get-Recipient finally returns Office 365 Groups by default

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Vasil Michev

Another one in the series of minor, but very useful improvements in Exchange Online PowerShell – the Get-Recipient cmdlet now returns Office 365 Group mailbox objects by default. Since Get-Recipient is one of my favorite cmdlets and I often used in my … Continue reading →

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Decode JWT access and id tokens via PowerShell

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Vasil Michev

JSON web tokens or JWTs are commonly used in modern websites and apps and Azure AD/Office 365 is no exception in this regard. Both the OAuth 2.0 and the OIDC protocols used by Azure AD issue some type of a … Continue reading →

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Blocking legacy authentication in Office 365

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Vasil Michev

Finally, we are able to block users and applications from using legacy authentication protocols to access Office 365. This is made possible thanks to the improvements made in Conditional Access, namely the new “Other clients” condition that is currently in Preview. … Continue reading →

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Granular controls for Teams connectors are now available

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Vasil Michev

While application extensibility is great thing to have in general, and certainly one of the factors that have contributed to Microsoft’s success over the years, it can also cause some unpleasant issues when left unchecked. Take for example the good old … Continue reading →

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