Kurt Shintaku's Blog

In response to COVID-19, organizations around the world rapidly adopted the remote work option as a necessary requirement for most of their employees.

Now that businesses are repivoting their operations, identifying and managing potential internal risks will continue to be critical to safeguarding each company’s data and reputation, while supporting a positive company culture.

In this interactive discussion, we will talk about the ways to minimize the risks and how to help employees stay healthy and productive, without compromising compliance.

Join our virtual conversation to talk with security and compliance experts from Microsoft and other companies about:

• How the pandemic altered risk strategies for a two to three-year time horizon
• Risks companies are encountering in this unchartered operating environment
• Cost implications for adapting to new business processes and the consequent risks
• How technology can help detect and prevent new risks and streamline work scenarios

Date/Time:
June 9, 2020 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

Registration:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=2130332&clcid=0x409&culture=en-us&country=US

Here are 6 of my favorite keyboard shortcuts for Windows 10 & Office 365 ProPlus.

• Win+. :  Select emoji/display emoji picker dialog box (Winkey + Period)
• Win+V : Paste from Clipboard Stack.  Paste up to 20 of the last things copied with Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X.
• Ctrl+K : Insert hyperlink to currently selected text.  Bring up the hyperlink dialog box and add a hyperlink to any text currently highlighted.
• Ctrl+. : Bulletize current line.  Add a bullet to the beginning of the current line and indent in Outlook, Word, OneNote. (Ctrl + Period)
• Ctrl+Alt+H: Highlight currently selected text.
• Win+Ctrl+Shift+B : Reset/restart the graphics driver on Win10 when you have a black screen, screen frozen, keyboard and mouse inputs don’t respond at all.

There’s a misconception that the only difference between the Office 365 E1/G1 and E3/G3 suites  just the availability of the Office 365 ProPlus/Microsoft 365 Apps.

The following capabilities are not included in Office 365 E1/G1, compared to Office 365 E3/G3.

• Office Suite
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-applications-service-description/office-applications-service-description)
  • Office ProPlus – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Infopath, MacOffice (Win32 clients)
    (Office Mobile for Android/iOS is available to E1 however Outlook for Android is NOT)
  • Excel Features – PowerMap, PowerPivot, PowerQuery, PowerView
  • Multilanguage User Interface
• Enterprise Messaging/Email
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-service-description)
  • eDiscovery
  • In-place Hold & Litigation Hold
  • Message Encryption
  • Inactive Mailboxes
  • Unified Messaging Reports
• Enterprise Security
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  • Data Loss Prevention for all email & files
  • Cloud App Security P1 (Cloud App Discovery)
  • Rights Management Services
  • Azure Information Protection
• Enterprise Reporting for Microsoft 365
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-platform-service-description)
  • Top DLP policy matches for mail
  • DLP policy matches by severity for mail
  • DLP policy matches, overrides, and false positives for mail
  • Top DLP rule matches for mail
• Enterprise Management
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-applications-service-description/office-applications-service-description)
  • Group Policy Support
  • Office Cloud Policy Support
  • Office telemetry
  • Administrative blocking cloud-based file storage
  • Roaming settings
• Differences in service capacity
  • Exchange Mailbox size gets smaller (100GB—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Archive size gets smaller (Unlimited—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Public Folder Mailboxes size gets smaller (100GB—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Storage quota for Recoverable Items folder in Archive Mailbox – not on hold (Unlimited—>30GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Storage quota for Recoverable Items folder in Archive Mailbox – on hold (Unlimited—>100GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • OneDrive for Business storage (Unlimited—>1GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/onedrive-for-business-service-description)

Today our Microsoft Information Protection story becomes even more complete with the GA release of service based auto labeling of sensitive labels for SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Exchange.

In addition this feature also contains Policy Simulator which helps you visualize the impact of a new automatic classification policy.

Read the announcement here:

• RELEASE: Service based Auto-labeling for SharePoint Online, OneDrive & Exchange Online now Generally Available
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-privacy-and-compliance/general-availability-of-automatic-classification-with/ba-p/1422249

Announced yesterday:

Microsoft & Workday, today announced a strategic partnership prioritizing enterprise planning in the cloud and expanding the business solutions customers can use to better optimize their everyday work. Through this partnership, Workday customers will also be able to run Workday Adaptive Planning on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Further, Microsoft will adopt Workday Adaptive Planning for its global finance teams for planning, budgeting and forecasting to help accelerate decision-making.

The companies also unveiled new integrations between Workday’s suite of applications and Microsoft Teams and Azure Active Directory that will enable customers to simplify day-to-day tasks, foster collaboration, increase productivity and enhance security.

Read the announcement here:

• Microsoft, Workday announce strategic partnership to accelerate planning for today’s world
  https://news.microsoft.com/2020/05/27/microsoft-workday-announce-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-planning-for-todays-world/

Register now and join us for the Azure Active Directory Webinar Series. Our engineering team is hosting a free webinar series on deploying and configuring Azure Active Directory!

In this 12-part series, we will cover methods and best practices to help you better secure your identities. Please see table below for a registration link for each of the remaining June sessions.

• June 11, 2020
  Identity Governance for Modern Organizations (We will introduce tools to govern the lifecycle of user and guest identities in your Azure AD and Office 365 deployment.)
• June 18, 2020
  Getting started with Azure AD Reporting and Insights (You will learn how to Interpret Azure AD Logs, Integrate with your SIEM tools and Gather Insights about your Azure AD Service.)
• June 25, 2020
  Azure AD as the New Security Control Plane (You will learn how to assess and implement a modern approach to secure your organization identities with Azure AD.)

REGISTRATION:

• EVENT: Azure Active Directory Webinar Series
  https://aka.ms/AADWebinarCommunity

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PAST RECORDINGS
Want to watch and listen to these webinars? Check back a few weeks after each webinar session at https://aka.ms/AADWebinarRecordings.

Did you miss the announcements from Microsoft Build 2020 from May 19-20, 2020?

It’s not too late!  Check out the big “Book of News” from the Microsoft Build 2020 event.

Pro Tip:  It’s HUGE.  Go to the Table of Contents and jump to the section & one of the 20 subsection that makes the most sense for you to review.  Main sections cover:

1. Azure
2. Microsoft 365
3. Security
4. Windows
5. Edge & Bing

(For those of you asking, “Where’s Dynamics or Power Platform"?” you should have attended the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2020 from last month.  Not to worry – all of the MBAS 2020 sessions are online too.)

• INFO: Microsoft Build 2020 “Book of News”
  https://news.microsoft.com/build-2020-book-of-news/

To answer questions and help you more easily set up and configure Windows 10 devices so end users can work productively (and securely) from anywhere, the Microsoft Endpoint Manager team will be hosting a one-hour Windows Autopilot AMA event on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

• The Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMA space will open at 10:00 a.m. PT June 2nd and remain open until 10:00 a.m. PT June 3rd.
• You can post questions anytime during the 24-hour window. To submit a question, simply click Start a new conversation—and do this for each new question.
• Our subject matter experts will be answering questions throughout the 24-hour window—and they will all be standing by live for the final hour, from 9:00-10:00 a.m. PT on June 3rd.
• At the end of the AMA, the Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMA space will close and become a read-only resource. We will post a final recap within 72 hours.

MONTHLY EVENT!
This will be the first in a series of monthly Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMAs. Stay tuned to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager blog for details on future events.

• Date/Time:
  June 2nd 10:00 a.m. PT 
  June 3rd 10:00 a.m. PT
• Add to Calendar:
  https://www.myeventurl.com/Events/Details/89
• Location:
  Microsoft Endpoint Manager AMA space:
  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-endpoint-manager-ama/bd-p/MEM-AMA

Learn how infrastructure as code enables you to describe and automatically provision the infrastructure that you need for your application.

In this module, you will:

• Learn what we mean by infrastructure as code and why it’s a best practice in DevOps.
• Apply a Terraform plan that provisions everything you need to run your web application.
• Add a job to your Azure Pipelines configuration that provisions your infrastructure when the pipeline runs.

Prerequisites

• An Azure subscription
• An Azure DevOps organization
• Visual Studio Code
• .NET Core 3.1
• Git
• A GitHub account

This module is part of these learning paths

• Automate your deployments with Azure DevOps

Go through the training here:

• TRAINING: Provision infrastructure in Azure Pipelines with HashiCorp Terraform
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/provision-infrastructure-azure-pipelines/

The 10th annual Ability Summit is moving to an all digital event! The Ability Summit brings together people with disabilities, allies, and accessibility professionals to Imagine, Build, Include, and Empower the future of disability inclusion and accessibility. And for the first time we will share content virtually!

This virtual event will be held over two days. All are encouraged to attend both days for this free virtual event.

• Wednesday, May 27th from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM, PT
• Thursday, May 28th from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, PT

2020 Ability Summit will feature:

• Keynotes from Microsoft executives and notable members of the disability community
• Expert panels featuring exciting projects and innovations
• Demos of the latest accessibility features in Office, Windows, Xbox, and more

(And on a personal basis, the event has Mandy Harvey, performing who is really an emotional and compelling performer with a fantastic story)

For more details, visit:

• Ability Summit 2020 (May 27 & 28):
  http://aka.ms/AbilitySummit
• Ability Summit Registration:
  https://abilitysummit.eventcore.com/
• Musical Performance – Mandy Harvey:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSWXzAnVe0