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Chris Vetter on 05-10-2021 02:26 PM

Make your journey to the cloud a little easier by redirecting Known Folders to OneDrive for Business with MEMCM

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TanTran on 05-05-2021 05:54 AM

Windows Defender Guard Events searched by Windows Event Viewer and by Microsoft 365 Security Advanced Hunting.

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Bruno Gabrielli on 05-03-2021 12:00 AM

One big question from customers about Azure Monitor alerts is how to change their status automatically. This post is try...

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hewagen on 04-29-2021 07:02 AM

This blog post is about how to approach a sporadical workstation lock. I'm using tools like XPerf and Windows Performanc...

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hspinto on 04-26-2021 12:00 AM

Sharing some tips about how to leverage NSG Flow Logs and Traffic Analytics to improve your Azure network security hygie...

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EJansen on 04-22-2021 12:05 AM

Eric Jansen here to talk about an interesting, but dangerous scenario that I've been seeing all too often in my travels.

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Joel Vickery on 04-19-2021 04:57 PM

A mild mannered IT administrator is doing routine patching when things go south. At first it seems like maybe just a cas...

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Eric_Woodruff on 04-15-2021 08:15 AM

Exploring how Azure AD and Azure AD Connect match user objects from Active Directory

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magdysalem on 04-12-2021 04:30 PM

Pod Identity is a feature allows applications deployed to communicate with AAD, request a token then use the token to ac...

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AndrewCoughlin on 04-08-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog post we will talk about an issue I ran into in the past around setting up Active Directory Authentication f...

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bwatts670 on 04-05-2021 06:00 AM

Detecting anomalies in your data can be a powerful tool. In this article we examine how to do exactly this with data in ...

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magdysalem on 03-31-2021 11:45 AM

Today as we develop and run application in AKS, we do not want credentials like database connection strings, keys, or se...

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Russ Rimmerman on 03-30-2021 09:21 PM

I've heard a bit of interest expressed recently in the ability to create a customizable Endpoint Configuration Manager (...

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BrandonWilson on 03-26-2021 11:57 AM

Investigating Hyper-V live migration failures that result in a 0x8009030E error

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BrandonWilson on 03-22-2021 10:42 AM

After a bit of a hiatus, welcome (back) to the Noteworthy News series (March 2021 edition)!

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John_Barbare on 03-17-2021 09:00 PM

Learn about the new "Warn Mode" for Attack Surface Reduction Rules and creating the profile in Microsoft Endpoint Manage...

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John_Barbare on 03-14-2021 09:10 PM

In this blog I will go over investigating an incident in Microsoft 365 Defender using the new unified portal.

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bwatts670 on 03-11-2021 05:00 AM

Looking for an easy way to make Azure REST API calls? Not comfortable writing code to do it? Well Azure Logic App to the...

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pbracher on 03-10-2021 12:00 AM

This blog is in support of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE, formerly MDATP) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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TanTran on 03-08-2021 03:36 AM

The Step-by-step suggestion for migrating MBAM Servers to MEM

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TanTran on 03-05-2021 12:44 AM

All things about USB flash drives management including access protection, Bitlocker encryption, security and troubleshoo...

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John_Barbare on 03-03-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog I will go over the Microsoft 365 Defender Security Portal and go into detail of the incident overview and e...

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John_Barbare on 03-02-2021 12:00 AM

This new workshop introduces configuration deployment in a lab using Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Microsoft Defender f...

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hewagen on 02-25-2021 10:59 PM

This blog post shows a way to enable application setups to change file type associations.

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bwatts670 on 02-24-2021 09:00 AM

Have you ever wanted a report of newly created resources in your Azure Subscriptions. Lets take a look at an option to u...

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hspinto on 02-23-2021 02:36 PM

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the implementation of automated Continuous Optimization with Azure Advi...

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John_Barbare on 02-22-2021 12:00 AM

Learn about the importance of keeping your internet browser up to date, cryptomining, and a chromium sandbox exploit. Is...

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AndrewCoughlin on 02-18-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog I will focus on how to upload a custom linux Hyper-V image for generation 2 virtual machines in Azure.

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Fabian0402 on 02-14-2021 10:07 PM

In this article, we will learn about the Site Maintenance Tasks of your MECM and how to ensure that these Tasks are up a...

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TanTran on 02-12-2021 03:33 AM

We discuss about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Antivirus Configuration, Policy and exclusion list in detail to avoid m...

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in Microsoft Defender ATP: Web Content Filtering on 05-10-2021

We have a couple internal domains being tagged as pornography, I have submitted the inaccuracy, multiple times. Nothing? I am curious how the calculation is made to make domain porn? Either, some how we have had porn served up off an internal domain and we do not know about it? Or this is not an acc...

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in How to Setup a Password Expiration Notification Email Solution on 05-10-2021

@Zdenek_Jurak , The number of times to run the script greatly depends on each organization. I would suggest running the script weekly as a starting point to see if it meets your needs. I hope this helps.

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in How to Setup a Password Expiration Notification Email Solution on 05-10-2021

@Anup_Pachkude Hi i use like this:$expireson = $passwordsetdate + $maxPasswordAge$NiceDateExp = Get-Date $expireson -Format "dddd dd.MMMM yyyy at HH:mm"$today = (get-date)$daystoexpire = (New-TimeSpan -Start $today -End $Expireson).Days

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in How to Setup a Password Expiration Notification Email Solution on 05-10-2021

Hi @Michael Hildebrand how often do you recommend running this script? I have set 180 days to expire password.Thank you

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in Do I Have Weak Passwords In My Organization...? on 05-08-2021

I assume this requires a P1 or P2 license for each user in your tenant?

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