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If you’ve ever asked anyone how to do virtually anything, the answer is usually “It depends.” Just as there is no wrong way to eat a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup and more than one way to skin a cat, so it frequently is with technological tasks. … [ Continue reading ]
Earlier this week, I had a request for assistance with delegating reporting features in Exchange Online to non-administrative users. This is a frequent topic of discussion when it comes to compliance and security officers validating that systems are not being misused by unauthorized persons.… [ Continue reading ]
Hi! It’s a day ending in “y,” which means it’s a good day to update a script!
Today, while on-site with a customer and running my AAD Connect Permissions script, I noticed that the logging output wasn’t as helpful as I wanted it to be.… [ Continue reading ]
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:
Today, I got it in my head that I wanted to create a script that would accept CSV input. In so doing, I wanted to make sure the CSV passed some sort of validation so that I didn’t end flooding a screen with errors, because nobody likes that.… [ Continue reading ]
While working on my last mini-series, I utilized my Create-LabUsers tool to automate the creation of a few thousand objects. When I was synchronizing my AD users to another directory, I noticed that I didn’t have mailNickname populated and had to add a quick script to fill that value in. … [ Continue reading ]
Update: This post has been updated with information from the newer Get-MgSubscribedSKU cmdlets.
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). … [ Continue reading ]
This week, I was working on a project that spawned a lot of ideas for posts. The project involves creating a wrapper for a number of cmdlets and being able to pass any / all of the parameters to the actual cmdlet being performed. … [ Continue reading ]
I was shocked to discover that I hadn’t updated the OneDrive for Business Admin Tool since January. Shocked that I hadn’t had any good ideas for it. Shocked, I tell you.
And then, a requirement presented itself for a tenant-to-tenant migration: how big are all of the OneDrive sites?… [ Continue reading ]
Just a quick note: I’ve updated the AAD Connect Network Test Tool to now query Windows Product Edition data to provide a little more system configuration prerequisite testing information, based on the OperatingSystemSKU data listed at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/CIMWin32Prov/win32-operatingsystem.… [ Continue reading ]
After 4 glorious years of TechNet blogging, I am moving.  The TN blog system is changing, and I’m striking out on my own.
My blog is all growed up. You can go see any of your favorite posts at the new site: https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com.… [ Continue reading ]
A few weeks ago, I put out a series of posts on creating and using custom sensitive information types (https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.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 ]
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 ]
Over the course of your Office 365 administration duties, you may be called to locate data matching particular data patterns (such as matching a particular regular expression or a Sensitive Information Type), either for eDiscovery or data classification purposes. The good news is you can actually do that. … [ Continue reading ]
UPDATE: The file 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 ]