So in the past months Microsoft has been forcing CSPs and MSPs to use MFA, something I strongly encourage and am glad with. The only issue with this was that Microsoft made this move without accounting for automation and automated jobs that need to run, especially jobs that run unattended and over multiple delegates. To…
Most of the clients at my firm are moving to cloud only solutions in which we have less management options available. We can use Intune for Administrative Templates, or as we do use our RMM system as the management platform. To make sure we can use our RMM system we have several scripts that deploy…
This is a quick and dirty blog, as I am quite busy editing our PowerShell Functions to use the secure app model before the deadline of august first. Microsoft has announced that any Microsoft partner will need to start enforcing MFA on all accounts. This means you can no longer have an exclusion for accounts…
As a MSP we tend to take over a lot of Microsoft tenants which therefore do not have their state of security in order. To make sure that we always use MFA for administration purposes we have an Azure Function running that deploys MFA for our administrator accounts. We do this by using our central…
I often use scripts that uses cmdlets from different modules so I can use all sorts of data sets when handling my Office365 administration tasks. The problem is that I often found myself connecting to a specific service such as the Exchange services, only to need the security center moments later – or the MSOL…
Hi all, Today we’re going to change the branding of the Office365 portal. Something that helps clients identify that they are logging into the correct portal and are entering their usernames correctly. The great thing about this is you can have your own support information directly on the office365 portal. you should make notes of…
Lately we’ve been running into issues with client’s connecting to Office 365 and having high latency with this connection. this results in issues such as “Outlook is not Responding” & “Getting data from server outlook.Office365.com”. Both of these issues disappear when running in Cached mode due to less data-traffic being required for normal operations such…
One of the fantastic benefits of having Microsoft partner portal access is the ability to remote manage your clients/tenants. One of the downsides of this is that the partner portal is sometimes somewhat slow, or has a convoluted approach for remote management. A great way to resolve this is by using PowerShell to manage the…
Azure MFA is a fantastic product – Its easy to setup and maintain, and not very costly to purchase (for pricing, click here). The great thing about Azure MFA is that it becomes very easy to secure your local directory, but also your remote desktop connections or RDS your 2008/2012 farms. There is just one…