M365 Feature deployment order

Alex Mags

M365 landscape by By Aaron Dinnage “M365 landscape by By Aaron Dinnage”)

From the excellent feature licensing chart by Aaron Dinnage, you can see the Microsoft 365 suite has so many productivity and security components. It’s difficult to know where to start. I’d like to suggest a roadmap for implementing M365 features and getting value out of M365 licensing. The roadmap would be based on dependencies (you need X before you can deploy Y) and it should be prioritised on business value. I also wanted to experiment with the MermaidJS library for creating dependency diagrams.

Exchange Online Migration gotchas

Alex Mags

e-mail to the cloud!

Exchange Online migration is a complicated project in a large organisation. So complicated that some organisations haven’t completed this yet. There’s many technical integrations and operational processes with this service. Here’s a post about technical and operational problems that can occur when migrating email to Exchange Online. What has tripped you up in an Exchange migration? Let me know what I’ve missed!

Career break

Alex Mags

Travel I fancied a break and change of workplace. So my wife and I both resigned from our jobs and we’re taking the summer off. 😎

Local admin report with Defender for EndPoint

Alex Mags

Securing Windows PCs starts with managing local administator access. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint logs every login and records if it was a local admin. Use this KQL query in the Advanced Hunting portal to create a report.