Access Reviews for group membership and assigned applications in Azure AD

The Access Reviews feature was recently introduced over at the EMS blog, and is now available in Preview. It’s an easy to use feature that allows for self-service management of group membership across distribution groups, security groups and Office 365 Groups, as well as application access. Well, self-service perhaps isn’t …

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Client Access Rules for Exchange Online

The wait is over – one of the most requested features has finally hit my tenant. Namely, Client Access Rules, or the functionality that allows us to control access to Exchange Online based on location, protocol and authentication type. Sadly I still don’t have CARs across all my tenants, but it’s enough …

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First version of Microsoft Teams PowerShell module is now available

Today, the good folks at Microsoft released (an early preview version of) the Teams PowerShell module. The version is dubbed 0.9.0, and again, is a Preview one. The module has been one of the common asks from Office 365 admins, as PowerShell is the tool of choice when it comes …

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Create custom admin roles for the Security and Compliance Center

Many organizations want to tightly control the different admin functions delegated to members of their IT operations or Helpdesk teams. With the latest additions to the Security and Compliance Center in Office 365, we can now create custom management roles and grant just the right set of permissions. Managing SCC …

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Connecting to both ExO and SCC using the MFA-enabled PowerShell module

There seems to be an unfortunate issue with the recently updated Exchange Online PowerShell module that brings support for Modern authentication for the Security and Compliance Center cmdlets. Namely, the script’s Connect-EXOPSSession function, used to establish the connectivity for both the ExO and SCC parts, clears out every remote session upon …

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