Need to Know podcast–Episode 278

In this episode I round up the major updates from Microsoft Ignite November 2021 as well as having a chat with Phil Meyer, Partner Technology Strategist – Hosting and Cloud from Microsoft about things like the new Microsoft commerce platform. Plenty of great information in this episode, so listen in and share around.

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

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

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Resources

Phil Meyer – Linkedin, philme@microsoft.com

Ignite November 2021 book of news

Introducing Microsoft Defender for Business

Windows 365 Business will offer Windows 11 and admin capabilities

Change your SharePoint domain name (preview)

Rich, secure content and collaboration for hybrid work – Ignite 2021 announcements

New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite

Introducing Microsoft Loop

Q&A in Teams is in Public Preview

Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021: Innovations coming to Microsoft Teams

Power Platform Community November webinar–Sessions

As mentioned here:

Power Platform Community November webinar

We had some issues with the screen recordings. The presenters graciously agree to re-record each of their sessions and they are now available for viewing here:

Patron Power Platform Community November 2021 Webinar – Session 1 – YouTube

Patron Power Platform Community November 2021 Webinar – Session 2 – YouTube

Patron Power Platform Community November 2021 Webinar – Session 3 – YouTube

Power Platform Community November webinar

You can now view the recording of the Power Platform Community November webinar here:

Unfortunately, something went wrong with the screen sharing between the presenters! We’ll look at get individual recordings of their presentations up soon. Stay tuned

The slides are also available:

https://www.slideshare.net/directorcia/patron-power-platform-community-november-2021-webinar

Watch out for the opportunity to register for the December webinar!

Checking Microsoft 365 Email Forwarding using PowerShell

A typical tactic after a business email compromise event is the creation of email forwarding rules using any one, or more, of these methods by an attacker:

– Use rules in Outlook Web App to automatically forward messages to another account

– Client rules

– Sweep

It is therefore good practice to regularly check and verify the email forwarding rules inside your Microsoft 365 environment.

I have created a free PowerShell script exactly for this purpose, which you can find here:

Office365/o365-exo-fwd-chk.ps1 at master · directorcia/Office365 · GitHub

and the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqk_yd6U3bk&t=16s

will provide a walk through of its execution.

CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – November

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Join me for the free monthly CIAOPS Need to Know webinar. Along with all the Microsoft Cloud news we’ll be taking a look at working with Microsoft Lists in your environment.

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

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

November Webinar Registrations

(If you are having issues with the above link copy and paste – https://bit.ly/n2k2111 – into your browser)

The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – November 2021
Friday 19th of November 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.

Connect to Microsoft 365 using PowerShell

Once you have set up your PowerShell environment the next thing is to use it to connect to Microsoft 365 services like Exchange Online and Teams.

I have created several free automation scripts at:

https://github.com/directorcia

to make that process easy.

In this video, I’ll walk you through the steps of using what I have created to make it simple to connect to any Microsoft 365 service using PowerShell quickly and easily.

Here is a direct link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PwAbzM8RI

Updating PowerShell for use with Microsoft 365

Keeping all your PowerShell modules up to date for Microsoft 365 is easy using the process in this video along with the free script I provide here:

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

Simply use the script, with elevated privileges, and you can automatically update all the modules. If you then save the script locally, you can use an option to prompt you for each update if you wish.

Here is a direct link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rKHDM3-zI