SonicWALL Security Services and Microsoft Teams Audio/Video
Trouble with VoIP calls on your network. If using a SonicWALL firewall, be sure to check if these SonicWALL security services may be causing an issue. And, how to overcome them.
Microsoft Teams: PowerShell Connection Steps
Are you looking to connect using PowerShell to your Microsoft Teams environment? Then this is the blog for you where I will provide step by step instructions along with screen pictures to show you how it is done. Steps: Open PowerShell on your Windows desktop. Do this by simple typing …
Microsoft Teams Extension Dialing Steps
Several years ago I wrote a blog about how to setup Extension Dialing for Skype for Business Online. It turned out to be one of my most popular blogs (of the almost 100 blogs I have written over the years) to date, indicating to me just how many people were …
Online Collaboration Products Offer Extended Trial Periods to Help Prevent Coronavirus Spread
It is early March 2020 and the Coronavirus spread continues to be the top news story and concern for many people and organizations. There are reports of masks and hand sanitizer being cleared from store shelves. Large companies such as IBM, AT&T and Verizon who were scheduled to attend the …
Easy User Experience Demos using Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication
Both Microsoft and Google recently said that enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will eliminate 99.9% of account breaches and highly recommend this security feature be enabled. With MFA being available on most Office 365 tenants and so many options available for MFA, there really is no excuse why MFA is not …
Setup a More Secure Office 365 SPAM Bypass Policy
Office 365 has many amazing levels of protection including Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and add-ons like Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Knowing how to properly define these rules is one thing, but knowing how to setup secured bypass rules is another. In this blog we will review common SPAM bypass policies …
Windows 7 to Windows 10 Migration Webinar – Example
This blog post has an example webinar that Microsoft Partners may review and consider using as a model to follow. Each of the concepts explained in the How to Make a Webinar – For Microsoft Partners blog have been used in this webinar and other examples. This example webinar example …
How to Make a Webinar for Beginners
Introduction: This blog is full of tips and tricks about how Microsoft Partners can design a successful webinar for their existing customers as well as for gaining new ones. Several Microsoft Partners have expressed interest in doing more with digital marketing in areas such as webinars, so I thought it …
Email SPF Records: Why and Proper Setup in Office 365
Every organization is fighting a battle each day against the onslaught of email phishing, spamming, and other types of malicious emails. There is always a fine line to draw regarding the defenses you put into place and the intensity of these filters so that they do not start blocking legitimate …
Email DKIM Records: Importance and Proper Setup in Office 365
In my role at Microsoft I am talking daily to Microsoft Partners and customers throughout the United States. One of the more popular conversation topics is email spam and spoofing of their domain. There are several email related DNS records available that the majority of organizations are either unaware of …