Intro Link to full Microsoft article:https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp/ba-p/4114750 Microsoft are closed one of the older legacy protocols; SMTP with basic authentication.Due late september 2025, now is the time to prepare your systems for the decommission of SMTP relay using the old basic authentication. This article talks about a few ways to modernize sending mails. High volume email …
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Create custom Privileged Identity Management (PIM) group with approver
Description This guide will walk through the proces of creating custom PIM group that will give members eligility to elevate and become global admin. This guide will also outline how to setup approver as required step in the proces of elevation. Create groups Enable groups for PIM Setup PIM for the group that holds the …
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Manage emergency access accounts in Microsoft Entra ID (Break glass)
Microsoft Learn source article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/role-based-access-control/security-emergency-access This guide was originally written as an internal guide for infrastructure consultants to configure for customers. However I felt the need to share this approach, since break-glass is a concept widely debated, but very important to configure. I do also recommend the use of a direct partner of Microsoft, that can …
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Require Multifactor Authentication to register or join devices with Microsoft Entra
In Entra ID under Devices, All Devices and then Device Settings, you can enable: Require Multifactor Authentication to register or join devices with Microsoft Entra. However Microsoft recommends disabling this feature (enabled by default) and enforcing via a conditional access policy instead. This guide provides 2 ways of achieving that goal. Method 1: This method …
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Migration to Converged Authentication Methods
Intro This guide will assist in the proces of migrating from legacy MFA and legacy SSPR, to the new converged authentication methods. On September 30th, 2025, the legacy multifactor authentication and self-service password reset policies will be deprecated and you’ll manage all authentication methods in the authentication methods policy. NoteAfter all authentication methods are fully …
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