DMARC is a free email authentication protection control that is used alongside SPF and DKIM. When used correctly it provides an effective security policy to help prevent malicious actors from impersonating your email addresses outside of your email system. Microsoft have recently announced the ability to set DMARC controls within […]
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Microsoft have made various announcements about removing the last Exchange Server from your Exchange Organisation if you have migrated all mailboxes (and mail functions) to Office 365. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/Exchange/manage-hybrid-exchange-recipients-with-management-tools This is in the context that you still have Active Directory and Azure AD Connect, with all user accounts still mastered in […]
We are often asked to migrate customers off GoDaddy hosted email to a new Microsoft Office 365 (O365) Tenant. GoDaddy is widely used by customers for hosted email, as that is where they have their DNS registration for their domain names. It is easy for a GoDaddy customer to sign […]
Microsoft released Exchange 2019 CU13 in May 2023. Anyone using Exchange 2019 is recommended to deploy this latest cumulative update. This is also known as the Exchange 2023 H1 update. The major feature for this release is support for Modern Authentication, with the intention to prevent the use of basic […]
If you are still using a hosted email service that is based on IMAP (or POP3) it is time to consider moving onto Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and benefit from the improved security. I have seen many customers on IMAP experiencing identity theft where user credentials have been gained, and […]
Proper use of the SPF and DKIM email authentication controls allows you to also enforce the DMARC control to significantly increase your email security posture. Adopting the desired DMARC reject mode allows you to help prevent external parties from sending spoof emails from your email domain to anyone else on […]
Introduction | GroupWise is Alive GroupWise to Office 365 migration project requests are still coming into my inbox. This is a surprise, as GroupWise keeps on dying each year. But then these requests keep on coming. GroupWise is dead, long live GroupWise…. maybe not, but you get the idea. See […]
Introduction – Office 365 Security Customers often migrate their email to MS Office 365 without considering the change in security landscape. Migrating to Office 365 offers the convenience of a cloud solution, but we recommend focusing on cloud security at the same time. Security aspects of MS Office 365 are […]
Introduction Recently I was asked to help a customer remove meetings from a staff member who had left. Their Office 365 mailbox had been deleted, but the request was to have that person’s meetings removed from everyone else’s calendars. Office 365 provide this function via the Exchange Online Azure Powershell […]
On a recent Google Gmail to Office 365 migration project I cam across a cool Gmail feature sometimes known as “throwaway addresses”. I enjoy finding out new things related to email – and this was a good one! In Gmail if you had the address test123.person@gmail.com then it […]