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I was so excited to see this notification in the TechNet Gallery today when I logged in:
Thanks to everyone for making this one of the most downloaded OneDrive tools in the Gallery! As a thanks for your support, feel free to download it as many times as you like!… [ Continue reading ]
It’s Two-fer Friday. I don’t know if it was a thing, but it is now.
Based on received feedback, I have updated the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions tool to check for the Active Directory schema version in addition to the Exchange schema. … [ 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 ]
With the advent of scammers, spammers, phishers, and other types of baddies, and the complementary rise in anti-malware, anti-spam, domain and sender verification techniques, we’re in a perpetual cat-and-mouse game. I’ve had several customers over the past few weeks ask me about best practices for configuring some of the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) features.… [ Continue reading ]
In Part 1 of this blog series, I went through the setup of the Splunk Add-On for Microsoft Cloud Services, which you can use to extract, query, and analyze data provided by the Office 365 Management Activity API. In this particular post, we’re going to explore the Microsoft Office 365 Reporting Add-On for Splunk, which you can use to review message trace data from Office 365.… [ Continue reading ]
I’ve had a number of customers ask me about configuring their monitoring systems to Office 365. So, rather than repeating the same information and re-issuing the same links (most of which contain outdated information), I’m going to put together a series on how to connect a few systems to Office 365. … [ Continue reading ]
In my previous post, I discussed using the new Attack Simulator for crafting phishing campaigns against your users. If you haven’t tried it out yet, I’d heartily recommend it. It’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
For this post, we’re going to shift into slightly more traditional attack strategies. … [ Continue reading ]
Over the last few weeks, we’ve released some great new features for Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection users. The Attack Simulator has three core components, each of which I’ll cover in a series:
For this post, I want to focus on the Spear Phishing campaign.… [ Continue reading ]
A few users reported bugs with logging that I have updated. There was also an unreported bug when searching the XML generated by Get-ADSyncServerConfiguration for the connector’s AD user, which I have also resolved.
You can get the updated tool at https://aka.ms/aadpermissions… [ Continue reading ]
Update: We now have some public documentation available for this as well, so be sure to check there, too! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/active-directory-deployment-plans
Imagine this scenario: You’ve been running Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) since before it was cool, and you’re tired of maintaining that highly available infrastructure (at least 4 servers) and the whole federation thing and its myriad of quirks and drawbacks and headaches (such as alt-id (which is still supported in Pass-through authentication with some caveats, listed below), claims rules, certificates, and the fun of trying to change UPN suffixes from one federated UPN to another).… [ Continue reading ]
Two updates for the tool in a week? Yes! It is so!
At the behest of my good friend Darryl and one of his customer’s needs, I have updated the the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions tool with the following:
On the recommendation of my good friend Darryl, I’ve added some things to my AAD Connect permissions tool: