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Microsoft 365 apps to stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 and Windows 10 Sunsets Microsoft Edge Legacy
This week, Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) by this time next year. Beginning November 30, 2020, the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support IE 11. Beginning August 17, 2021, the remaining Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer
Microsoft Graph Object Pagination and Ordering When Working in PowerShell SDK
Blog by: Dmitry Sotnikov Find him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Question from Justin during our webinar, “Microsoft Graph Basics for PowerShell Admins”: Is Graph data sorted in some way so TOP returns the same value every time, or will it just return the first object that happens to be returned? Microsoft Graph
How to setup a Web UI for LAPS Password Management
Microsoft’s LAPS Password Management now has a secure Web UI Cayosoft Administrator’s free web-based Active Directory Management solution comes complete with support for Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) password management. LAPS provides the ability to manage local administrative passwords individually and thereby reducing the chances of later movement should one
Resolving UserId and GroupId parameters to Id property in Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK pipeline
Blog by: Dmitry Sotnikov Find him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Question from Robb during our webinar, “Microsoft Graph Basics for PowerShell Admins”: Couldn’t you use $_.id? In PowerShell, we are used to just be able to pipe the output of one cmdlet to the next one. For example: Get-ADGroup beatles | Get-ADGroupMember
How to Minimize Complexity in Managing Microsoft Office 365 Licenses
Prior to 2014, IT administrators could simply activate their Microsoft licenses by entering a single license key and the organization was good to go. Today, Microsoft’s platform provides dozens of license plans, which allow enterprise organizations to tailor the office 365 services to their specific requirements and budgets. This
More than 900 VPN Passwords Leaked by Hacker
A list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, has been published on a Russian-speaking hacker forum frequented by multiple ransomware gangs. According to a threat intelligence analyst, the list includes: IP addresses of Pulse Secure VPN servers
Connecting to Microsoft Graph using certificate to run scripts without a user present
Blog by: Dmitry Sotnikov Find him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Questions asked during our webinar, “Microsoft Graph Basics for PowerShell Admins”: For automating with Microsoft Graph and using PowerShell. When working as a user, you needed to enter the code and then sign-in as your user. How would an automation/service account work, do
New Cayosoft Guardian v1.3 Now Available to Recover and Protect Azure Active Directory and Hybrid AD
Cayosoft today introduced the latest version of Cayosoft Guardian to recover and protect Azure Active Directory (AD) and hybrid AD identities and data. Highlights of the latest release include: Change Monitoring and Immediate Rollback for Exchange Mailbox Settings Backup and manage Exchange online mailbox delegate permissions and settings with Guardian. Quickly isolate and rollback malicious or mistaken changes to Exchange licenses that can impact mailbox metadata including delegation, forwarding and more. Enhanced Filtering Filter change history
Cayosoft Guardian “Clearly Delivers on Its Promises;” Gets 4.6/5 Rating From Microsoft MVP
Microsoft MVP Nuno Mota reviewed Cayosoft Guardian, a solution for Azure and hybrid AD recovery and protection. The review, which includes some useful tips on requirements, step-by-step installation, and product functions, gave Guardian 4.6/5 rating. “Guardian clearly delivers on its promises. Its continuing monitoring and protection of on-premises and/or Azure Active Directories guarantees
Class-action lawsuit has accused Microsoft of sharing customer data
A lawsuit has been filed with Microsoft for allegedly sharing the content of business customers’ emails, documents, contacts, calendars, location data, audio files, and video files, among other forms of data, without consent. According to the lawsuit, Microsoft is routinely sharing business customers’ data, including personal and corporate information, with Facebook and other third parties
4 Reasons Why the Recycle Bin Can’t Fully Protect Azure Active Directory
Let’s face it, user errors are a reality, and the threat of malicious actors breaching Active Directory –both on-premises and in Azure – is on the rise. Protecting your data has never been more important, yet no native tooling exists to tracks changes, store previous values or enable administrators to
6 Tips to Optimize and Reduce Microsoft Office 365 Licensing Costs – Part Two
Welcome to part two of this blog, where we’re covering six tips to optimize Office 365 license costs. We recently introduced the first three tips in part one of the blog. Microsoft provides numerous license options and flexibility for organizations, but it’s difficult to make informed decisions on the “best”
Hybrid Microsoft Administration with Powershell and Microsoft Graph: Understanding the Basics
Blog by: Dmitry Sotnikov Find him on LinkedIn or Twitter. Scripting in the Microsoft world has evolved significantly in the last few decades. For a long time Microsoft administrators were stuck with MS-DOS command line and batch files for any scripting around it. While the batch language included some basic capabilities
Exchange Online Down in Europe – EX216336
Reports are showing up online that users may be unable to connect to the Exchange Online service. Several users here at Cayosoft report not being able to connect to the full-Outlook client to Exchange Online, however the web based version of Outlook appears to be working. Current status as of
Cayosoft Administrator v7.2 is Now Available!
Even with all of the recent cloud adoption, on-premises infrastructure still exists. Purpose-built for hybrid environments, Cayosoft Administrator provides management that follows you on the journey to the cloud. From on-prem to Office 365, Administrator delivers a single solution to automate and streamline day-to-day IT administration. Administrator simplifies management with role-based delegation, rule-based automation, self-service, Office 365 license