Crowmunication and Crowlaboration - here you find articles about the many services and features that Microsoft 365 offers for collaboration!
Scrooged - effective protection against Ghost Sender in Exchange Online
Lesedauer 8 MinutenExchange Online is quite flexible when it comes to message flow. For example, emails can be delivered directly to Exchange Online from external sources or routed through an upstream email gateway. The latter is not uncommon in companies. In the past, a third-party filtering solution may have been purchased and deployed for Exchange Server, since […]
Should my Microsoft Cloud Administrator account be licensed? If so, when?
Lesedauer 5 MinutenOver the years, several best practices for managing administrator accounts have become established, particularly in connection with the Microsoft Cloud: “Security-related licenses” typically refer to licenses for Entra ID features, such as conditional access, Privileged Identity Management, etc. However, if your own productive user account already has such a license, the administrator account does not […]
Microsoft 365 Migrations | Part 3: Project Organization
Lesedauer 12 MinutenThe decision has been made—the acquired company is to be integrated, or part of the company is to be transferred to its own environment. This decision is typically made not by the IT department, but by senior management. Consequently, at the time the decision is made, the scope of work required for the migration is […]
Multi-Tenant management with Entra Tenant Governance - everything alright now?
Lesedauer 6 MinutenManaging a Microsoft cloud environment can be quite time-consuming. And when you have multiple environments—for example, due to acquisitions or spin-offs—the complexity increases accordingly. Microsoft does not have an integrated solution for this that enables comprehensive or centralized administration of multiple cloud environments—until now? Since March 2026, the new “Entra tenant governance” feature has been […]
Microsoft 365 Migrations | Part 2: Management of the environments
Lesedauer 6 MinutenOptimizing and operating a Microsoft cloud environment is not something that can be done on the side. There’s no denying it: the cloud offers many opportunities for automation and natively provides the necessary security services. However, these do not configure themselves. The enterprise IT department still plays a crucial role in professionally implementing security and […]
Microsoft 365 Migration | Part 1: Options for Collaboration
Lesedauer 5 MinutenIn my first post, I discussed how companies can eventually face the challenge of merging multiple IT infrastructures. This post explores how companies can collaborate within Microsoft 365 without performing an integration. Option 1: Loose collaboration This form of collaboration corresponds to the standard model, which is also used by unrelated companies. No special configuration […]
Hierarchies for Exchange Address Lists - why and how does it work?
Lesedauer 5 MinutenIt is common practice to map the organizational structure of your own company in IT services. While this is not recommended in Active Directory (companies tend to restructure every few years, and this is usually not easy to implement in AD), services for Exchange Online and Teams are more suitable for this purpose. This is […]
Save licensing cost for Defender for Office 365 - with exclusions!
Lesedauer 4 MinutenProper licensing is difficult to achieve with many manufacturers. There are many pitfalls and peculiarities involved in this topic—it's not for nothing that people often refer to it as a “licensing jungle.” This typically leads to companies preferring to license “too much” in order to be on the safe side. However, with the right partner […]
DO NOT do this! in Exchange Online
Lesedauer 7 MinutenIn IT, there's often no single "one" solution for everything. Configurations, malfunctions, and problems can be handled in various ways, for example, via graphical interfaces, command-line solutions, or third-party tools. Personal approaches can also vary greatly. This has a lot to do with individual experience, but also with when you entered the IT field. Therefore, […]
Electronic signatures in Microsoft 365 - without external solutions!
Lesedauer 5 MinutenSome documents must be legally signed to prove the identity of the creator/sender. In the past, this meant printing out the document, signing it by hand, and sending it to the recipient by mail.In the age of digitalization, however, this is no longer appropriate. As a result, numerous providers have now established themselves on the […]
