Cybersecurity Best Practices for Small Businesses

In today’s digital age, small businesses rely on technology more than ever to operate efficiently and effectively. While technology brings immense opportunities, it also exposes small businesses to various cybersecurity threats. This article discusses essential cybersecurity best practices tailored for small businesses, providing examples and frequently asked questions to ensure your business is well-protected. Table … Read more

Azure AD Premium Features

As of November 2022, Here I’ve prepared detailed feature comparison table on AzureAD Premium License. Microsoft Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that combines core directory services, application access management and advanced identity protection. No Category Features AzureAD Free AzureAd Premium Plan1 AzureAD Premmium Plan2 1 Authentication, single sign-on … Read more

Azure Information Protection

Latest Azure Information Protection Plan Comparison as of November 2022 What is Azure Information Protection? Azure Information Protection (AIP) is part of Microsoft Purview Information Protection (formerly Microsoft Information Protection or MIP). Microsoft Purview Information Protection helps you discover, classify, protect, and govern sensitive information wherever it lives or travels. AIP also provides the encryption service, Azure Rights … Read more

Business Basic and Premium Features Comparison

Latest (as of November 2022) features comparison table for Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.  Category  Features  Standard  Premium  Microsoft 365 Apps  Desktop client apps  Yes  Yes    Office Mobile apps  Yes  Yes    Install apps on up to 5 PCs/Mac + 5 tablets + 5 smartphones  Yes  Yes    Office for … Read more

Microsoft 365 Plan Selector

Microsoft 365 Plan Chooser The easiest way to choose the best plan suitable to your organization requirements. As you can see in above screenshot, this can help you to enter your desired requirements like  How many employees are in your company? Where do you get your work done? Which of the following collaboration tools does … Read more

Export M365 user’s MFA Status

Export MFA Status using PowerShell Script This is PowerShell script to export list of users with MFA status (detailed) from Microsoft 365 admin center. You can see the below “How To” tutorial on our YouTube Channel. Click here You’ll need to login into MS Online using PowerShell to run the script. Pre-Requisites 1. PowerShell v5.0 … Read more

Modern Authentication vs Basic Authentication, SMTP AUTH

Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online In September 2021, The Microsoft announced that effective October 1, 2022, they will begin disabling Basic authentication for Outlook, EWS, RPS, POP, IMAP, and EAS protocols in Exchange Online. SMTP Auth will also be disabled if it is not being used. See full announcement: Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – … Read more

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Enabling Security Defaults

This is a security feature can be enabled with any licenses, no addition security license needed. Security Defaults will enable and enforce the following identity protection features. This is basic security feature coming enabled with every new tenant registered after 2019. If your subscription was created on or after October 22, 2019, security defaults might … Read more