CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – June

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I think we should try something a little different this month for the session. I’m going to attempt to use the new Microsoft Teams Webinars feature. For anyone who has attended a previous session this means the registration process will look a little different, but in the end it should achieve the same result but with less manual work by me. To start with you need to navigate to:

http://bit.ly/n2k2106

and submit your registration details. Shortly after this you should receive an automated email from Microsoft Teams confirming your registration, including all the event details as well as a calendar invite!

How this all works come webinar time I’m still working out, but hopefully I should be across it all before the webinar starts. However, I’m sure there will be things that I’ll learn during the process, so if you want to see what unfolds then you best register to find and be part of the inaugural CIAOPS Teams webinar!

The topic for this month will be Device Management. I’ll dive into how you connect and manage devices in Microsoft 365 including iOS, Android and Windows devices. You’ll see how Microsoft 365 Device Management is a great way to improve the security of your information environment. As always, I’ll also share the latest news and events from Microsoft and as always, there’ll be plenty of time for your questions, so I hope you’ll join me at the event.

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

June Webinar Registrations

The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – June 2021
Friday 25th of June 2021
11.00am – 12.00am Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron which you can do here:

http://www.ciaopspatron.com

or purchase them individually at:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com/

Also feel free at any stage to email me directly via director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session and I look forward to seeing you there.

IAMCP Video Presentation

I recently did a presentation for the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners Quarterly Briefing and you can find the slides here:

https://www.slideshare.net/directorcia/microsoft-365-security-overview

The videos is also available now at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGEfjgIfhdE

if you want to take a look.

Thanks again to the IAMCP for the opportunity to present on Microsoft cloud security.

CIAOPS Secwerks 1 registrations now open

With the venue now secured I am please to announce that registrations for CIAOPS Secwerks 1 in Melbourne CBD on Thursday August 5th and Friday August the 6th are now open. If you are not a CIAOPS Patron there is an early bird offer of $440 inc GST if you use the coupon code SWEB at check out. After that date, the price will be $798 inc GST. Note, costs exclude food which is not available in the venue. You can register now at:

https://www.ciaopsacademy.com/p/secwerks

The event is a 2 day hands on Level 400+ deep dive into security for Microsoft 365. It will cover topics such as:

– Exchange Online Security

– Windows 10 device hardening

– Incident monitoring and handling

– Effective identity security

– Data protection and more

If you have the responsibility for the management of Microsoft and Office 365 environments, then this session is for you.

I’ll be posting more information about the event in the coming weeks but if you do have questions please feel free to contact me via director@ciaops.com.

I look forward to seeing you at the event.

Missing calendar icon in Microsoft Teams

I recently ran a Live Event in Microsoft Teams and wanted to get back to the event resources but found my calendar was missing as seen above. This was evident on both the desktop and web interface.

When I attempted to use the link from the Live Event appointment in the calendar in my Outlook I was greeted with the above message:

Unable to connect to your Exchange calendar at the moment

I thought this strange as i had scheduled the Live Event using the calendar icon in Teams?

Turns out that what I had done in the meantime was disable Exchange Web Services (EWS) in my environment. Doing so affects a number of services in my environment including Teams and Exchange Add-ins as it turns out.

If you are seeing the same issues you can use PowerShell to check the EWS status of your environment. You’ll firstly need to connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell which you can do using my script:

https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/blob/master/o365-connect-exo.ps1

then run the following command to see what the EWS settings are at the tenant level:

Get-organizationconfig | fl ews*

to which you should see something like:

From what I understand you’ll need to ensure that EWSEnabled and EWSAllowOutlook are NOT False (i.e. disabled). This will take care of allowing EWS for any new mailboxes created from this point forward.

Also run the command:

Get-CASMailbox | fl identity, ews*

which should result in a list of all the EWS for each user like so:

Make sure that users do not have EwsEnabled or EwsAllowOutlook set to False (i.e. disabled). If it is you can use the command:

set-casmailbox –identity user@domain.com –ewsenabled $true –ewsallowoutlook $true

command to re-enable it and set it to True.

If you change an EWS setting for an individual mailbox it can take 4 – 24 hours for that change to flow through according to documentation I’ve seen. In my case however, I found by logging out and back in the change appeared almost immediately.

It should then re-appear in Teams as shown above. If it doesn’t, simply use the three dots (ellipse) at the bottom of the list to add it back in. You may also need to right mouse click it once you have added it back in and “pin” it to the side menu, so it stays there.

So in a nutshell, don’t disable EWS in your environment because things like Microsoft Teams needs it! If you are missing your calendar in Microsoft Teams or have issues with Outlook Add-ins, check EWS is enabled.

May Microsoft 365 Webinar resources

Slides from this month’s webinar are at:

May 2021 Microsoft 365 Need to Know Webinar

If you are not a CIAOPS patron you want to view or download a full copy of the video from the session you can do so here:

http://www.ciaopsacademy.com.au/p/need-to-know-webinars

Watch out for next month’s webinar.

Register your interest for a hands on, deep dive Microsoft 365 Security event

If you are interested in attending a hands on in person 2 day deep dive event into Microsoft Security including:

– Exchange Online

– Windows 10 hardening

– Effective incident monitoring

– Identity security

– Data protection

and more then I encourage you to register your interest now for CIAOPS Secwerks 1 in Melbourne CBD over 2 days, Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th of August 2021. I expect demand to be extremely high for this event and I will have more to share when I have confirmed all the details. However, feel free to reach out to me if you want more information. Please register your interest here to be kept up to date with the event:

http://bit.ly/ciaopsroi

The theme of this event will be to help you understand all the technologies that the Microsoft Cloud provides, how to configure them appropriately and get your Microsoft Secure Secure above 80%. The material covered will be technical and cover all the basics but then to extend beyond Level 400. The course is specifically designed for those who need to provide security for environments connected to Microsoft 365.

I hope to see you there.

IAMCP Presentation

Here’s the slides from my presentation at the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners Quarterly Briefing today providing an overview of Microsoft Security. You can also access the slides via:

https://www.slideshare.net/directorcia/microsoft-365-security-overview

Thanks to all who attended and the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners for the opportunity.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 267

I speak with Aaron Dinnage from Microsoft who is the author of the great licensing resource Microsoft 365 maps. Aaron shares the history of this project and it takes to update it every month. We also get some great insights and suggestions when it comes to Microsoft 365 licensing.

This episode was recorded using Microsoft Teams and produced with Camtasia 2020.

Brought to you by www.ciaopspatron.com

Take a listen and let us know what you think – feedback@needtoknow.cloud

You can listen directly to this episode at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-267-aaron-dinnage/

Subscribe via iTunes at:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ciaops-need-to-know-podcasts/id406891445?mt=2

The podcast is also available on Stitcher at:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ciaops/need-to-know-podcast?refid=stpr

Don’t forget to give the show a rating as well as send us any feedback or suggestions you may have for the show.

Resources

Aaron Dinnage – Linkedin, Twitter