Securing your Office 365 Tenant with Advanced Threat Protection

One of the most overlooked features in Office 365 seems to be Advanced Threat Protection. I am often confronted with environments that have it and do not use it or do not see the value in having it. This gets changed very quickly when something happens that could have been prevented with ATP. I think our …

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Deploying Azure Files

Now that we have gone through the due diligence and planned out our Azure files deployment, we can get started on the deployment phase. Before we do that, let’s summarize what we are going to do 1.      Setup Azure files (SMB) to replace an existing file server Sounds simple but remember we have already gone through …

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Group Policy Explained

Group Policy Object’s or GPO’s are a great way to control what can or cannot happen on a computer. They are really designed for an active directory environment. Although, there are local policies you can use if you are on a workgroup. They must be set on each machine though. For our purposes here we …

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