Unified audit log search available in the new Compliance center

The new “specialist” Compliance and (separate) Security consoles have been available for Microsoft/Office 365 customers for a while now, but even though they are in “GA” status, there’s a lot of functionality missing compared to the good old Security and Compliance Center. This should hardly come as a surprise, given …

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Some thoughts around licensing for Microsoft’s cloud offerings

As Microsoft’s online services continue to expand in reach and branch in more and more areas, it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of just how many different SKUs, service plans, features and so on exist. Even within Microsoft, it is hard to find a single person that can …

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Microsoft to retire New-MoveRequest for local mailbox moves in Office 365

In a short announcement posted over at the MTC, Microsoft announced plans to retire the self-service mailbox move functionality in Exchange Online. Said feature, made available via the New-MoveRequest cmdlet few years back, was initially launched as a tool to allow admins to initiate go-local moves. Its use however quickly …

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Windows update changes the way we work with files downloaded from the internet

So most of you are probably familiar with the Attachment Manager feature in Windows, which “stamps” files downloaded from the internet and works together with the SmartScreen feature to protect you from opening them accidentally. I wont go into much details on how it all works together, but for our …

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