Author Archives: Vasil Michev

Bug in the Azure AD Access Panel allows guest users to view groups and their membership

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Vasil Michev

In the IT world, there is a constant struggle between security and usability. Admins often have to weigh in on user impact before they enable some feature designed to improve the security stance of a given product. This of course … Continue reading →

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Azure Information Protection (Azure RMS) switches to using TLS 1.2 only

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Vasil Michev

This should hardly come as a surprise to anyone, but earlier this week Microsoft turned the plug on support for older protocol versions service-side and going forward only TLS 1.2 will be supported. This in turn means that any older … Continue reading →

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The *-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlets now throw proper exceptions

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Vasil Michev

Anyone that uses PowerShell inevitably runs into an error, I do it dozen times every day. PowerShell does offer a robust error handling, however when different teams within Microsoft produce modules and cmdlets, they implement error handling differently, which can … Continue reading →

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Azure Cloud Shell now supports connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell for MFA-enabled accounts

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Vasil Michev

In a recent article published over at Practical365.com, I covered Azure Cloud Shell and its use for managing Office 365 services. At the time of writing, there were some issues, such as being unable to connect to Exchange Online PowerShell … Continue reading →

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Dozen new Azure AD/Office 365 roles have been added

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Vasil Michev

While we still haven’t got any traction on the custom roles for Azure AD/Office 365 front, a bunch of new admin roles was introduced recently. The actual number seems to be 12, as listed below: B2C User Flow Administrator – … Continue reading →

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