Overview Microsoft is retiring the legacy MFA and SSPR policies by 30th September 2025 as part of its modernisation path. Migrating to the new Authentication Methods policy offers more precision, central control, and futureproof cloud environment. The new Microsoft Entra ID authentication method policy offers a unified, modern way to manage your organisation’s authentication methods, […]
Introduction Break glass accounts are your emergency lifeline, providing privileged access when the identity system fails and no one can sign in to access organisation resources due to outages, breaches, lockouts, or misconfiguration. These accounts are critical for maintaining control and continuity but must be tightly secured, rarely used, and continuously monitored. ⚠️ Why They […]
Security Best Practices Using Only the Org Settings Portal Microsoft 365 provides robust tools for businesses of all sizes, but with this power comes responsibility. Securing your tenant doesn’t always require premium licenses or access to multiple admin portals. You can significantly improve your organisation’s security posture using only the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre’s “Org […]
Co-authored by Ben Stott and Kelly Mathurin of the Jisc Cloud team. A major benefit of being a customer of the Microsoft 365 Education suite has for a long time been having access to unlimited storage across OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange. This has meant that IT administrators haven’t needed to worry about capacity planning, […]
‘… the reality is that existing education establishments have been using their Microsoft 365 Tenants without any restrictions. This change, from their perspective, is a new restriction and will no doubt, be perceived as a price rise, since many education tenants are larger than 100TB.’ For further information see our advice paper: Advice and Guidance […]
Openreach are in the progress of moving all customers from the old analogue public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a fully digital network: Openreach puts the stopper on copper | Openreach – this means no more ISDN or analog copper lines, fiber is the way forward. As of September 2023, Openreach are only provide digital […]
After a successful pilot, we now offer the new Jisc Cloud professional service – Microsoft 365 Health Check A high-level security review of the Microsoft 365 tenant- Review of Microsoft Security Centre Review the Tenant against Jisc and Microsoft best practices. Entra conditional access policies Review of Teams admin portal Use and recommendations – various […]
I’m excited to introduce two new services that Jisc cloud is seeking institutions to pilot with us: Microsoft Intune deployment accelerator pilot A project to demonstrate how to use Microsoft Intune so that you can confidently set the configuration and policies that will enable endpoint management. This will include mobile devices as well as laptop/desktop […]
Automate automate automate, that should be part of my job title. In this post I’m going to talk about a lesser known feature of Azure AD, which is now available to anyone with A3/E3 or above, group based licensing. With Microsoft’s retirement of the AzureAD and MSOL modules (replaced with MSGraph) you will need to […]
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