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Keeping up with Microsoft 365 changes without reading every noticeBusiness Advice
Microsoft announces many changes ahead of time, but the notices go to each admin's own mailbox, so they can easily go unread. Here's a short monthly routine, a change log and a way to test a change before your people meet it.
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Designing a read-only PowerShell toolkit for tenant auditsAdvanced Engineering
An audit script that can change the tenant it's reading is a liability. Here's how to design a Microsoft Graph PowerShell toolkit that can only read, and how to show afterwards that it did.
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Microsoft Teams Messaging Safety: What’s Changing and What You Need to KnowBusiness Advice
Teams has three messaging safety settings in the Teams admin center: weaponizable file type protection, malicious URL protection and the option to report incorrect security detections. Microsoft’s documentation describes malicious URL protection…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: What It Is and How It HelpsBusiness Advice
We have experience of working with businesses that are exploring Microsoft 365 Copilot Business. There’s a lot of interest but also confusion about what it actually does and whether it’s worth the…
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Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 reach the end of support in October: what a hybrid estate has to decideTechnical Guidance
Support for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 ends on 14 October 2025, and in a hybrid estate the server is only part of the question. Here is what Microsoft had documented by late July 2025 about the routes open to you.
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Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration: what to settle before you move anythingTechnical Guidance
After an acquisition you often end up with two Microsoft 365 tenants and a date by which they should be one. Here's the order we'd settle things in, and what Microsoft's documentation covered for cross-tenant moves in February 2025.
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Microsoft 365 Tips for Small BusinessesBusiness Advice
Many small businesses we work with have Microsoft 365. They use it for email, maybe Word and Excel, and that’s about it. But Microsoft 365 is way more powerful than most people…
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Windows 365: A Simpler Approach to Cloud DesktopsBusiness Advice
Windows 365 is Microsoft’s Cloud PC solution. It’s different from Azure Virtual Desktop in some important ways. If you’re considering cloud-based desktop solutions, understanding the difference helps you choose what makes sense…
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Conditional Access policies that don’t lock everyone outTechnical Guidance
A Conditional Access policy can lock out the administrator who wrote it. Here's a method for testing before enforcing: emergency accounts, report-only mode, the sign-in logs and a sensible rollout order.
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Why You Need AvePoint Backup for Microsoft 365Business Advice
We’ve helped businesses recover from situations where they thought Microsoft 365 was backing up everything automatically, only to discover that wasn’t quite true. Someone deleted an important email, or a file got…