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In the last 6 months we have seen an ever increasing number of successful ransomware attacks and you NEED to think about it before your company is attacked. Ransomware attacks are becoming more common and sophisticated than ever before. A ransomware attack can occur at any time, and it can Read more…
Azure Code Signing is a service provided by Microsoft that enables software developers to securely “sign” their code using digital certificates. When code is signed with a digital certificate, it provides an assurance that the code (any code – Windows executables, PowerShell scripts, and Java code…) has not been tampered Read more…
We explain step by step how to configure Microsoft 365 to send recipients of quarantined emails an alert email. A Microsoft 365 Quarantine alert can be sent out every four hours, once a day, or once a week. In the past the Microsoft 365 Quarantine Notifications Alert used to be Read more…
In this video we explain how to set up and how to use azure backup to protect your virtual machines. We have other videos explaining and demonstrating how to restore single files from an Azure VM but this video demonstrates how to restore an entire virtual machine. You might need Read more…
A “soft delete” of a user account in Microsoft Office 365 means that the user account has been deleted in the usual way and so Microsoft keeps it around in the office 365 recycle bin for 30 days. You can manually flush the recycle bin to get rid of it Read more…
The short answer is, yes but the long answer is you probably do not want to do that. If you are wanting to delete a former employee from your Microsoft Office 365 accounts so that you can reassign the license to someone else or cancel a license altogether and stop Read more…
UPDATED: Aug 17 2023 Machines in Azure have a health service that sends a heartbeat notice to an Azure management server to confirm the machine is still responding. After a number of failures, Azure Arc flags an alert and IT staff like you and I get to work. Note that Read more…
We recently had a client ask us about this error message “Due to a configuration change made by your administrator or because you moved to a new location you must use multi-factor authentication to access”: This message is telling you that the account you were trying to log in with Read more…
This video was originally intended for home users who want to backup their Microsoft Office 365 files like OneDrive and Email, but the instructions the same for small businesses that want to back up their Microsoft 365 data for free. In fact, Veeam for Microsoft 365 can be used by Read more…
If you are working on a SharePoint site and you find that it is locked and you can’t do anything with it , this is the article and video for you. There are five steps to walking a SharePoint Site.
We explain how to add a new email domain to microsoft 365, formerly office 365. We then explain how to change the default email domain for a single user and how to change the default email domain for all new users in Microsoft 365 This video shows you how to Read more…
If you see the Veeam error message Cannot contact the site specified URL. Access to this website has been blocked you should go to your Microsoft 365 sharepoint portal and find out what is wrong. You can go directly to the Sharepoint portal but we find all of Microsoft 365 Read more…
In a previous article we explained how to setup LDAPS (Secure Light Weight Authentication Protocol) on premise and in this video we are going to show how to following this Microsoft article: LDAP Authentication with Azure Active Directory. If you are really new to Azure, you should setup a free Read more…
What is the difference between Stop and Shutdown in Azure? It depends on what you want to do but if you are done with the VM for a while, you likely want to STOP the Azure VM. The two ways most admins “shutdown” virtual machines is they way they always Read more…
The name “Microsoft Defender” has gone from relating to an mediocre integrated antivirus program to being a brand for a large suite of security products. In this article we focus on Microsoft Defender products that keep computers safe (as opposed to applications like Defender for O365) While Defender makes sense Read more…
If you are trying to log into Azure but being prompted for credentials in an Internet Explorer popup, this is the fix for you. In this video we demonstrate how PowerShell launches Internet Explorer even if Chrome, Edge or Firefox are set as the default browser. If your IE is Read more…