PowerShell Basics: Want to Use Exchange Online in Azure Cloud PowerShell?
Since rollout in Exchange 2007, PowerShell and Exchange have been partners in helping administrators everywhere manage their environments. Whether on-premises or in the cloud, PowerShell is a powerful tool for working with Exchange. Now the cmdlets for managing Exchange Online are available in Azure Cloud Shell. In this post, I'll show you how to access the Exchange Online module easily, and begin working with your Exchange Online resources in Azure Cloud Shell.How to Manage SharePoint via PowerShell - Part 1
In this two-part series, we're going to look at how we can manage SharePoint using PowerShell. This is highly focused on SharePoint Online, but if the cmdlets are available, it also applies to SharePoint on-premises. We'll start with the basics, and then get some real-world scenarios scripts in part 2 to get you started with your daily management tasks. I'll also you give some tips along the way to make your life easier.Schedule customer meetings with Microsoft Bookings
Allowing your customers or potential customers book time with you or book your services in a self service way is a great tool to be able to provide. I've been leveraging Microsoft Bookings to allow the community to book time with me, take a look at how you can leverage Microsoft Bookings to do the same.Tips for securing your privileged accounts
Security is hot on everyone’s mind these days. As it should be with all the recent reports of hacking and data breaches. There isn't a day that goes by that you do not read a story of another data breach. With all this going on it brings up questions and concerns of how privileged access accounts are protected and secured. Using perimeter protective measueres isnt enough anymore.Step-by-Step: Blocking Data Downloads via Microsoft Cloud App Security
By using Azure AD conditional access policies, we can define who have access to what applications from where. This is purely control the access to your app. Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) allow us to extend these capabilities further into session level. Using MCAS, we can examine each session to the app in real-time to protect information further.Step-By-Step: Setting up AD FS and Enabling Single Sign-On to Office 365
This is a typical highly available setup into Office 365. Ideally this server will be installed as virtual servers on multiple Hyper-V hosts. Think about redundancy, not only in the virtual servers, but in the Hyper-V servers as well. Install one AD FS and one AD FS Proxy on one Hyper-V host and the other AD FS and AD FS Proxy on another Hyper-V host. This prevents loss of service from a hardware failure. Keep in mind that once you are using Single Sign-on with Office 365, you rely on your local Active Directory for authentication. Both video and printed steps have provided to ease your implementation of AD FS and SSO.
