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A Complete Guide on How to Replace the Root Site in SharePoint Online

A Complete Guide on How to Replace the Root Site in SharePoint Online

SharePoint sites are the gem of the Office 365 suite since they store and organize content for the users. Amidst all, the root site is a basic site that serves as the starting point to access resources within the SharePoint environment. Despite this, admins may decide to delete the SharePoint site as its hierarchy doesn’t meet the organization’s needs.   Unfortunately, deleting the root site will block the users from accessing the sites and site contents. So, what is your…

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Simplify Transport Rule and DLP Policy Evaluation with Test-Message Cmdlet

Simplify Transport Rule and DLP Policy Evaluation with Test-Message Cmdlet

Great news for Exchange administrators out there. The test-message cmdlet is back & better than ever!   Exchange Online Test-Message cmdlet, which was temporarily disabled for further enhancements last year, is now generally available. This powerful cmdlet can now be used by tenant admins to independently investigate any issues related to the execution of Exchange Transport Rules (ETR) and Unified Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. With this newly improvised cmdlet, admins can also troubleshoot problems related to DLP policies and mail…

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Block Download Policy for SharePoint Online and OneDrive

Block Download Policy for SharePoint Online and OneDrive

SharePoint Online is one of the greatest collaboration platforms that lets users work on files, folders, and pages. To sweeten the deal, SharePoint Online also allows users to download the documents in times of need. In certain cases, however, it is not a good idea for users to be able to download documents as it may lead to confidential data loss. Configuring conditional access policies is one method to prevent users downloading documents from specific sites. This process has been…

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Encrypt Email in Microsoft Outlook to Safeguard your Sensitive Information

Encrypt Email in Microsoft Outlook to Safeguard your Sensitive Information

In today’s world, email communication is a part of everyday life. Every one of us sends and receives emails in our work environment. Are they utterly secure? Are we the only ones seeing? The questions that bothered me might bother you too. Emails are considered to be the common channel for cyber security threats such as spoofing, spam, phishing attacks, etc. And also, approximately 7 million records are exposed to compromise every day since they are not encrypted. So, here is where email…

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Get Ready! The Retirement of Few Microsoft 365 Connectors is on the Way

Get Ready! The Retirement of Few Microsoft 365 Connectors is on the Way

Are you receiving regular updates through Microsoft 365 connectors in your organization?  If so, here is the recent update on Office 365 connectors that you should know about!   Sad but true! A few popular Microsoft 365 connectors will be retired soon! Yes, Microsoft announced that this retirement (MC512209) will begin in mid-March and will come to an end by mid-April. As a result, you will no longer be notified of updates through these connectors after they have been retired.   Let’s…

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Improve External Collaboration with Microsoft Teams Connect Shared Channels

Improve External Collaboration with Microsoft Teams Connect Shared Channels

Are you finding it hard to switch tenants to collaborate with external organizations? Switching tenants makes it tedious for the user to handle conversations, files, tasks, and workflows with multiple guest tenants. Here comes the Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels that allows you to access the external data easily without switching the Office 365 tenants. Let us dig deeper into this blog to gain more knowledge about the shared channel, ways to create them, share them, and many more down…

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How to Map a Network Drive to SharePoint Library

How to Map a Network Drive to SharePoint Library

By introducing and improving features like ‘OneDrive Files On-Demand’ and SharePoint ‘Sync’, Microsoft reduced the dependency to map SharePoint document library as a network drive. To some extent, we can see how good these features are, in helping cloud adoption, quick file access, and easy uploads. However, some are still interested to map OneDrive to network drive letter. They could not be wrong as it allows users to easily access and manage OneDrive and SharePoint files directly from File Explorer,…

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Complete Guide on Migrating the Safe Links Block List to Tenant Allow/Block List

Complete Guide on Migrating the Safe Links Block List to Tenant Allow/Block List

Security Update Coming Your Way! According to Microsoft, Beginning February 13th 2023, the Safe Links Block List will no longer be enforced. Entries on this list will no longer be considered unsafe and blocked at the time of the click, as all Safe Links Block List should be migrated to the Tenant Block List. This is a major shift in security strategy, which gives more granular control over what links are allowed, rather than just blocking known bad links in…

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Configure Org-wide Email Signatures using Disclaimers in Microsoft 365

Configure Org-wide Email Signatures using Disclaimers in Microsoft 365

Email is a crucial form of communication in today’s business world. One key aspect of professional email correspondence is the use of an org-wide email signature. Not only does it promote the brand, but also serves as a digital business card. However, there are limitations to using the disclaimer method to configure organization-wide email signatures in Microsoft 365. In this blog post, we will give a step-by-step guide on the concept of creating email signatures in Microsoft 365 using disclaimers and discuss…

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2022 Recap: Essential Office 365 Scripts for Administrators 

2022 Recap: Essential Office 365 Scripts for Administrators 

Hurray! 😎It’s one year blogging anniversary 🎉for ‘M365scripts’. A hark back at the best blogs of the year is the only way to celebrate this! The purpose of this recap is to summarize the most wanted Office 365 blogs under a single roof that helped most of the admins. These blogs include helpful Office 365 scripts for user management, major feature updates, and other key configurations. Let’s break into the topic straightaway!  PowerShell Scripts for Easy Management   1. Effectively Manage Microsoft Teams using PowerShell…

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