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Microsoft 365 Security · Identity and Access
Governing AI Agents Across Client Tenants with Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft Agent 365 reached general availability on 1 May 2026. The Shadow AI page in the Microsoft 365 admin centre now detects seven locally installed AI ...
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Microsoft 365 Security · Identity and Access
How to Deploy Windows LAPS with Entra ID Backup
Windows LAPS puts a unique local administrator password on every device and backs it up to Entra ID. The tenant-level switch that allows that backup is off by ...
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Microsoft 365 Security · Identity and Access
Deploying a Conditional Access Baseline to Any Tenant
Every MSP I know has a Conditional Access baseline. Most of them exist as a document somebody wrote once, a set of screenshots, and a memory of roughly what ...
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Identity and Access · Compliance
Auditing Delegated Admin Access Across Client Tenants
Microsoft forced everyone off DAP and onto GDAP, most of us did the migration under time pressure, and the fastest way through was to grant broad roles and ...
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Microsoft 365 Security · Identity and Access
Six Global Admins and Audit Logging Off: Inheriting a Three-Year-Old Tenant
You take on a new client. Somebody set the tenant up three years ago, it has worked fine since, and nobody has looked at it. You get Global Administrator, open ...
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Legacy Authentication Walks Straight Past Your MFA
A client asks whether they are protected. You check the MFA registration report, see ninety-something per cent, and say yes. Three weeks later an account is compromised with nothing more ...
SPF, DKIM and DMARC Across Client Tenants Without Breaking Their Mail
Setting up email authentication on one domain is a twenty minute job. Doing it across thirty client tenants, where each one has a marketing platform, an invoicing tool and a booking system nobody ...