Another Office 365 compliance issue swept under the rug

A while back, I was made aware of an interesting issue, namely the fact that OneDrive for Business users can disable indexing for their own drives, effectively disabling functionalities such as eDiscovery or DLP. This of course is yet another issue that stems from the fact that users are Site …

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Device-based Office Pro Plus subscriptions

In another example of history repeating itself, Microsoft has revealed plans to introduce device-based subscription for Office 365 Pro Plus. After years and years of evangelizing the benefits of the subscription-based model, which is tied in to the user identify, the powers that be finally caved to the thousands of …

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Service Health Dashboard improvements and another rant on support

Ignite 2019 is now over and as usual I’ve been spending some time going over sessions I wasn’t able to attend in person. One of these sessions was the “Service Health Dashboard” one, Incident communications at cloud-scale: How Microsoft 365 is improving when things go wrong, presented by Mike Ziock, …

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Azure Cloud Shell is now integrated with the Office 365 Admin Center

Over an year ago, at last Ignite conference, Microsoft previewed an early version of Azure Cloud Shell integrated modules that will make it easier for Office 365 admins to connect to and manage their environments. Now, an year later, this is ready for prime time and it is now actually …

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