Enforcing idle session timeout restrictions in SharePoint Online

So Ignite is over and now it’s time to catch up on all the cool new Office 365 and Azure AD features announced or showcased. One such cool feature is the ability to configure custom idle session timeout window for SharePoint Online, as showcased in this session: https://youtu.be/1vnGXvjOm98?t=911 To configure …

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Free eBook: Eradicating legacy Public folders

Public folders have existed for a long time now and many companies are facing challenges fitting them in the “digital workspace” vision. Microsoft hasn’t been particularly helpful in this regard, with no new client-facing functionality introduced to Public folders in over a decade. Even when a company decides to replace …

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Report on users connecting via RPC/HTTP in Office 365

By now, you should be well aware that Microsoft is planning to remove support for the RPC/HTTP protocol in Exchange Online, starting Oct 31, 2017. In case you’ve missed the announcement, multiple blog posts and the support article, you can find a nice summary for example here. With less than two …

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Security and Compliance Center (SCC) PowerShell finally supports Modern authentication

Modern authentication, ADAL or MFA are all different things, but often used to designate the same scenario – using additional authentication factor when logging in to Office 365. Generally speaking, the added security is a great thing, especially important for any privileged accounts. The different teams at Microsoft however have …

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New Azure AD token defaults (and reminder of about token lifetime importance)

Few days ago, the Azure AD team announced that they are changing the default values for some of the parameters controlling token lifetimes. In a nutshell, any newly created tenants will have refresh token inactivity period of 90 days and unlimited max age for any refresh tokens. You can find …

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