File sharing for remote workers

Recently I have seen more and more people looking at ways to operate in this new normal of having everyone working from different locations. It does present an interesting challenge from the sysadmin perspective. How will you provide updates to users and computers when you cannot use GPO to reliable push those updates? In a …

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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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