Disable Linkedin integrations in Microsoft 365

The first place to disable Linkedin integration in Microsoft 365 is inside the Azure portal.

Navigate to Microsoft Entra ID, then select Users as shown above.

Select User settings on the left and set the Linkedin account connections to No.

Remember to Save your settings before existing this page.

Now navigate to the Exchange Online administration portal. Expand the Roles option on the left and then select Outlook Web Apps policies.

Typically, there will only be one OWA policy as shown above. If there are more, then you will need to repeat this process with each.

Select the policy name, here OwaMailboxPolicy-Default..

From the window that appears on the right select Manage features as shown above.

Ensure Linkedin contact sync is unselected as shown above.

Save your settings before you exit.

Set Exchange Online quarantine notification period

Many people have suspect emails sent to quarantine in Microsoft 365. This is achieved using a quarantine policy which you find at:

https://security.microsoft.com

You expand the options under Email & collaboration as shown above and select Policies and rules. On the right you select Threat policies as shown above.

If you scroll down the page a bit you’ll find Quarantine policies as shown above, which you should select.

The notification period is controlled in the GUI via the Global settings menu option as shown above.

From the dialog that appears from the right, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find an option Send end-user spam notifications as shown above. Presently, the minimum you can configure this to is Within 4 hours.

After you make any changes here select the Save button at the very bottom to update these settings for all the quarantine policies you have.

CIAOPS Brief 20240810

Bridging the On-premises to Cloud Security Gap: Cloud Credentials Detection –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/bridging-the-on-premises-to-cloud-security-gap-cloud-credentials/ba-p/4211794

Exploring the latest AI features in Clipchamp –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/exploring-the-latest-ai-features-in-clipchamp

Chained for attack: OpenVPN vulnerabilities discovered leading to RCE and LPE –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/08/chained-for-attack-openvpn-vulnerabilities-discovered-leading-to-rce-and-lpe/

Extend allow in Tenant Allow/Block List allow entries in a transparent data driven manner –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/extend-allow-in-tenant-allow-block-list-allow-entries-in-a/ba-p/4213201

Professional project management with Microsoft Planner –

https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/guides/professional-project-management-with-microsoft-planner/

Ways to share files with people at work –

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

How Microsoft and NIST are collaborating to advance the Zero Trust Implementation –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/08/06/how-microsoft-and-nist-are-collaborating-to-advance-the-zero-trust-implementation/

Detect compromised RDP sessions with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/detect-compromised-rdp-sessions-with-microsoft-defender-for/ba-p/4201003

Enhancements to the Outbound Messages in Transit Security Report –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/enhancements-to-the-outbound-messages-in-transit-security-report/ba-p/4210332

After hours

You Should Probably Change Your Password! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaBH4LqGsI

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Validate email address format with PowerShell

Here’s a handy function you can use in your PowerShell scripts when you need to verify that information contains a valid emails address.

function ValidateEmailAddress {
param (
[string]$EmailAddress
)

$emailRegex = ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$’
$isValid = $EmailAddress -match $emailRegex

return $isValid
}

Just call the function and specify the text you want to verify as a parameter like:

ValidateEmailAddress(“director@ciaops.com”)

and you’ll get either True or False.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 324

Along with all the news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud I muse on the fact that the new Microsoft 365 Backup service may have been partially created to solve the storage issues of deleted data in Microsoft 365 environments. Just a theory, but listen along if you like to hear my thoughts.

You can listen directly to this episode at:

https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-325-a-change-in-the-wind/

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

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

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Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available

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Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024

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Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation

Best practices AI and machine learning Microsoft Purview 3 min read New Microsoft whitepaper shares how to prepare your data for secure AI adoption

Use WinGet 1.8 to download Microsoft Store apps

Monitoring Microsoft Sentinel Reports with Dashboard Hub & Power BI

Announcing quarantine release integration in MDO hunting experience!!

Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools

Microsoft Purview Data Governance will be generally available September 1, 2024

Migrate ADAL apps to MSAL with enhanced insights

Public Preview: New Azure Monitor Auxiliary Logs Plan

Onyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea

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Try out the new Copilot in Planner (preview) today in the new Microsoft Planner in Teams

OneDrive in-depth: Learning content

The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is now included with Copilot for Microsoft 365

Prompts to try in Copilot for Microsoft 365

CIAOPS Brief 20240803

Microsoft 365 Insider Round Up –

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-2024-microsoft-365-insider-fugwc/

Microsoft Defender XDR – Monthly news – August 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/monthly-news-august-2024/ba-p/4207232

New onboarding flow to managing Android Enterprise devices with Microsoft Intune –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-onboarding-flow-to-managing-android-enterprise-devices-with/ba-p/4206602

Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity –

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/08/01/windows-365-at-three-years-customer-centric-solutions-for-security-management-and-productivity/

New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/new-windows-365-features-help-provide-a-more-secure-workspace/ba-p/4206802

Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-365-gpu-enabled-cloud-pcs-now-generally-available/ba-p/4206600

New 1Password SIEM integration with Microsoft Sentinel now generally available –

https://blog.1password.com/1password-microsoft-sentinel-siem/

Supercharge Your Business: Simplify communications with AI in Microsoft Teams and Teams Phone –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/small-and-medium-business-blog/supercharge-your-business-simplify-communications-with-ai-in/ba-p/4205360

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-backup-blog/microsoft-announces-general-availability-of-microsoft-365-backup/ba-p/4205300

SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/sharepoint-roadmap-pitstop-july-2024/ba-p/4204521

What’s new in Copilot | July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/copilot-for-microsoft-365/what-s-new-in-copilot-july-2024/ba-p/4200439

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-july-2024/ba-p/4205316

Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/29/looking-back-on-fy24-from-copilots-empowering-human-achievement-to-leading-ai-transformation/

Best practices AI and machine learning Microsoft Purview 3 min read New Microsoft whitepaper shares how to prepare your data for secure AI adoption –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/30/new-microsoft-whitepaper-shares-how-to-prepare-your-data-for-secure-ai-adoption/

Use WinGet 1.8 to download Microsoft Store apps –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/use-winget-1-8-to-download-microsoft-store-apps/ba-p/4204522

Monitoring Microsoft Sentinel Reports with Dashboard Hub & Power BI –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/monitoring-microsoft-sentinel-reports-with-dashboard-hub-amp/ba-p/4203870

Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/29/looking-back-on-fy24-from-copilots-empowering-human-achievement-to-leading-ai-transformation/

Announcing quarantine release integration in MDO hunting experience!! –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/announcing-quarantine-release-integration-in-mdo-hunting/ba-p/4198601

Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

After hours

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU

Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week

CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – August

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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 Power Automate.

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.

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

August Webinar Registrations

(If you are having issues with the above link copy and paste – https://bit.ly/n2k2408

The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – August 2024
Thursday 29th of June 2024
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.

Copilot plugins make all the difference

If you are using the Copilot for Microsoft 365 chat interface as shown above

and you ask it to reference something on the web, such as asking for a summary of a piece of legislation, you’ll probably find that it doesn’t deliver on the results expected as shown above.

This is because, if you want Copilot for Microsoft 365 to use content from the web you’ll need to enable a Plugin. You find these in the lower right of the screen, on the input line as shown above.

When you select the Plugin icon you’ll see the above dialog box appear where you can enable web content.

If you now run the same prompt, you’ll get a much better result as shown above.

Unfortunately, at this stage you have to enable the web content plugin each time you use Copilot for Microsoft 365. I’m still search for a way to have this enabled by default. If you do know how to do that, please let me.