Getting Teams Meetings Added to Your Events When Using Apple iOS Calendar App
A user can enable an “All Meetings Online” option in Outlook (all versions) to add a Teams meeting automatically when the meeting is created and an admin can enable this centrally for all users with...
View ArticleImproving Exchange Online Email Deliverability Through Third Party Filtering...
When you receive emails into Exchange Online and you filter the external messages before arrival with a third party filter such as Mimecast, Proofpoint or others, then you can have DMARC failures that...
View ArticleFixing the Display of Voicemail In Outlook
Once upon a time voicemail in Office 365 was done in Exchange Online Unified Messaging, but that was retired early 2020. Voicemail is now provided by a service known as Cloud Voicemail but Outlook did...
View ArticleGmail showing “via” in Microsoft 365 Email Headers
I came across this issue the other day. In the headers of an email received from Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online into Gmail (and not other recipients) the message header reads “name@domain via...
View ArticleSafe Links, Microsoft Teams Rooms and Preset Security Policies
Or “How to customize Microsoft 365 Preset Security Policies“! The Preset Security Policies in Microsoft 365 allow you to assign to users, groups or domains the recommend anti-spam, anti-spoofing and...
View ArticleImproving Security For MFA Approvals – Number Matching
Rolling out in October 2021 is a new feature – that of requiring the user to enter a number rather than just click approve on the MFA prompt. This update to Azure AD requires the use of Push...
View ArticleAdding Location To Azure AD MFA
Following a tweet about this blog post going viral (or at least viral for me!) it came to the attention of the program managers at Microsoft and though it can be enabled with a single setting that is...
View ArticleExternal Teams Chat – Voice and Video Not Available
I wanted to look and see the options for the Voice/Video buttons in a Microsoft Teams chat, and why sometimes I do not have these available based on who I add to the chat I see these combinations:...
View ArticleSetting Up A Microsoft Teams Room with a Yealink MVC640
This article goes through the steps I needed to set up a new Microsoft Teams Room system using the Yealink MVC640. Account Provisioning First, and done in advance of arrival, is the set up of the user...
View ArticleTurn Off Self-Service Purchases in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 has a route for users to buy their own products rather than products purchased and licenced by the company. This blog outlines how to turn this off. Install the MSCommerce PowerShell...
View ArticleWe can’t set up the conversation Teams Chat Error
You want to chat from Teams to a person outside your company who is also using Teams and you get “We can’t set up the conversation because your organisations are not set up to talk to each other”. This...
View ArticleFinding Existing Plus Addresses
Exchange Online will automatically enable “Plus Addressing” for all tenants from Jan 2022. This change may cause issues if you have existing mailboxes where the SMTP address contains a + sign. That is,...
View ArticleAllowing “Phish” Training Emails in Exchange Online
With the introduction of “Secure by Default” in Exchange Online, where you used to add IPs and other settings such as allow-lists to allow your phish training emails to get through to your users this...
View ArticleBlock Downloads and Other Controls in Microsoft Dynamics
This article will walk you through the use of Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS in the rest of the article) to implement data protections in the Microsoft Dynamics product range. This includes...
View ArticleMicrosoft 365 – How To Enable A Progressive Web Application
A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is an application that runs in a website which you can separately have an icon for on your desktop (Windows, Chromebook, Raspberry PI, Linux, Android and other...
View ArticleOutlook AutoDetect And Broken AutoDiscover
Those in the Exchange Server space for a number of years know all about AutoDiscover and the many ways it can be configured and misconfigured – if even configured at all. Often misconfiguration is to...
View ArticleProxies and Firewalls and Installing Microsoft Office Subscription Software
Microsoft Office 365 client software (Word, Excel etc.) has been available as a subscription model for over ten years and using the Click-2-Run technology for all or most of that time, but I still see...
View ArticleCentrally Managing Microsoft 365 Apps Updates
It used to be the domain of 3rd party enterprise apps or Microsoft’s Configuration Manager to control the updates (or servicing) of your Microsoft Office apps (now called Microsoft 365 Apps). With...
View ArticleIntune MAM Exemptions – Discovering URL Protocols
In Microsoft Intune you can create a secure container where the data in your apps cannot leak outside of. That is, you can restrict copy/paste outside of the supported apps and restrict opening the...
View Article550 5.1.8 Access denied, bad outbound sender AS(42003)
“Your message couldn’t be delivered because you weren’t recognized as a valid sender. The most common reason for this is that your email address is suspected of sending spam and it’s no longer allowed...
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