Category: Information

Configuration

SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Custom Sharing Controls

Today, we’re going to explore two relatively new sharing controls in SharePoint Online (and, by extension, OneDrive for Business).  The two options we’re going to look at are located inside the SharePoint Admin Center (https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com) under Sharing:

Overview

To test both of these functions out (as well as how other users are affected), I’m going to work with 3 test users and two security groups.… [ Continue reading ]

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Determining your Office 365 Tenant Location

During a conversation with my peers, the discussion came up on how to determine what environment a tenant is located in (usually between Commercial and Government).  Typically, the easiest way to determine this is to look at your account SKUs.  For example, from PowerShell, the cmdlet Get-MsolAccountSku will return a list of SKUs available in your tenant.… [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Creating Scoped DLP rules with Custom Sensitive Information Types

A few weeks ago, I put out a series of posts on creating and using custom sensitive information types (https://www.undocumented-features.com/tag/sensitive-information-types/).  The blog, posts, however, focus on using the DLP configuration options available in the Security & Compliance Center.

Rules created via the DLP wizard in the Security & Compliance Center have the benefit of being able to be applied globally across your organization and its content sources. … [ Continue reading ]

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Looky, looky! Custom sensitive information types with even more customitivity!

So, of course, as soon as I finish up posting a few entries (here and here), we go and release a new UI to help you get it done on your own!

You can do most of the effort of creating a data classification here, although if you want to use any of our built in functions (such as credit card Luhn check), you’ll need to export/modify/import, use the sensitive information type package that I created (referenced earlier) or use one of our native DLP classifications.… [ Continue reading ]

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Sensitive Information Types–now with more sensitivity!

UPDATE: The TechNet Gallery link for this post has been updated.

So, this is an entry that has been long in the making.  I have had several customers over the last few years give feedback about our Data Loss Prevention’s (DLP) matching requirements, mostly around how they require too much corroborating evidence (in the form of patterns or keywords) to meet their organization’s very restrictive policies.… [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Update: AAD Connect Network Test Tool

Update (7/24): I updated this since the last revision, so if you downloaded it prior to 7/24/2018, get the newest version.

I began working with the product group on rolling in some of the network connectivity and testing checks available in the AAD Connect Network Test tool into the actual AAD Connect product. … [ Continue reading ]

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Testing a variable with the value of zero

Tonight, while working on my previous script, I ran into an interesting problem when testing the presence of a value.

Consider this:

PS C:\> [int]$IntValue0 = 0
PS C:\> [int]$IntValue1 = 1
PS C:\> [string]$StringValue0 = "0"
PS C:\> [string]$StringValue1 = "1"
PS C:\> $IntValue0
0
PS C:\> $IntValue1
1
PS C:\> If ($IntValue0) { "exists" }
PS C:\> If ($IntValue1) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($StringValue0) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($StringValue1) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($IntValue0 -eq $null) { "null" }
PS C:\> if ($IntValue0 -lt 1) {"less than 1" }
less than 1
PS C:\> $IntValue0.GetType()

IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType
-------- -------- ---- --------
True True Int32 System.ValueType

My short lesson: when setting an integer value to 0, you can’t test for it using If ($Value), as that will return false. … [ Continue reading ]