Exchange Online Protection & Defender for Office 365 – Common Microsoft 365 Security Mistakes Series
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Exchange Online Protection & Defender for Office 365 – Common Microsoft 365 Security Mistakes Series

Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) are the email and collaboration security services native to Microsoft 365. EOP is included at all levels of licensing for Exchange Online, with MDO bringing additional security capabilities to license levels such as Business Premium, Microsoft 365 E3, and Microsoft 365 E5. In this blog, I'll review five of the most common security mistakes I see in tenants regarding EOP and MDO. Realistically,…
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PowerShell: Run Cmdlet If Another Was Successful (And Keep Trying Until It Is)

Today I'm sharing a useful bit of PowerShell I gracelessly punt from script to script whenever I need to make sure a prerequisite it met before running something and to keep checking until it's met, then run what I need: "do X when Y is ready and keep checking Y until it's ready". The original use for this was my script to create a new Microsoft 365 user, but hold off on some parts…