David Sass - KolisLab

Microsoft Teams - The Admin's Check List What do you want to do is to make sure that you've completed the following checklist: You're highly encouraged to create additional Global Admin accounts. You're

PowerShell

PowerShell vs a really huge JSON file

How to process a large json file and get its content out with PowerShell

Cloud

Cloud Security & Responsibility

After seeing that some of us - if not most of us - is still able to mess up the configuration of the cloud hosted resources and therefor open up the possibility of

Azure

Practical guide to manage the PAW machines

Where we are We already have some quality materials - like the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture - about the security best practices of the Azure Cloud including possibly everything related to Cybersecurity but

Azure

Running Azure AD Pro Tip #1

Set up your system in a way which will allow you to receive incoming emails.Use case #1: InvitationsYour users might be invited into a different Tenant to access resources. To accept these

MSDN

MSDN blogs are back (UPDATED)

Microsoft has started to delete the blogs from MSDN. [UPDATE] 4/17/2019: Microsoft has restored the previously deactivated blogs. I suggest to save everything you find useful into OneNote and keep them

Azure

Red Team type of Access to Azure from Anywhere

! Warning ! The content of this post might not be aligned with you company's internal IT security rules, I suggest to talk to your manager and request an approval before you try this out

Compliance

Microsoft Azure Compliance Manager

As you probably know Microsoft has a Service Trust Portal from where you can get the #Compliance related information for all Microsoft cloud cervices. You can even download the Security and Compliance Blueprints

PowerShell

Show ♥ with PowerShell

I'm using a custom prompt within PowerShell to save space inside a console and place the current folder's path into the Title bar. function Prompt { $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = $(Get-Location) Write-Host "PS

DistributedCache

SharePoint 2019 and Distributed Cache failure

In some rare cases, right after the creation of a SharePoint 2019 farm, the Distributed Cache service could crash producing: .NET Runtime Error with Event Id 1026 Application Error with Event Id 1000

Compliance

How do I vet the third party applications

There are lots of third party software vendors focusing on applications and services to extend the functionality of Office 365. There is even a marketplace called AppSource where you can shop from these

SharePoint

SharePoint 2019 Feature IDs

When I work with SharePoint Server sometimes I need to validate if a FeatureID inside an error message is an Out of the Box ID in the current SharePoint version or it's a

PowerShell

Adding Users to Local Groups

I've been playing with the new SharePoint Server 2019 in the last couple of days and after I joined my new VM to the Domain I needed to add my SP_SETUP account

PowerShell

My favorite VSCode Extensions (updated)

I'm using Visual Studio Code as my #1 editor for my #PowerShell scripts and modules and these are my favorite extensions what I use every day. [Note] Keep this list accessible to make

GDPR

Free Microsoft Teams and what's behind

Microsoft Teams is here - for Free The offering was designed to small business and groups of co-workers that don’t have commercial Office 365 subscriptions. You can read the official announcement on

SharePoint

SharePoint Server Core

!IMPORTANT! This is not supported by Microsoft. Never do this in your production system. Now, after we're ready with the disclaimer, let the fun begin. I always liked the idea of the Windows

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 - May 2018 CU

After installing the May 2018 CU on my SharePoint Server 2013 Developer box I was expecting to see the official Build Number 15.0.5031.1001 but I got something else as a

PowerShell

Whiteboard PowerShell

People leave the organization. They might retire or look for bigger challenges. Either way as an Office 365 Administrator you have to deal with the situation. It's easy with SharePoint or with Exchange