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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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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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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