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As most of you know I love to create training courses. I create them for Pluralsight, Skill Me Up and LinkedIn Learning, as well as custom ones for anyone really. I want to highlight...
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Azure / Azure Active Directory / Courses / Microsoft 365 / Office 365 / PowerShell / Scripting / SharePoint / SharePoint 2003 / SharePoint 2007 / SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint 2016 / SharePoint 2019 / Speaking
by Liam Cleary · Published December 17, 2020
As most of you know I love to create training courses. I create them for Pluralsight, Skill Me Up and LinkedIn Learning, as well as custom ones for anyone really. I want to highlight...
General / Microsoft 365 / Note / Office 365 / PowerShell / Scripting / SharePoint Online
by Liam Cleary · Published November 17, 2020
If like me, you use PowerShell or Scripts of any kind, sometimes you find things don’t work, and then you find those commands that resolve it. Isn’t it true that down the line, when...
Compliance / Data Loss Protection (DLP) / General / Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Teams / Office 365 / Policies / Policy / Security / SharePoint / SharePoint Online
by Liam Cleary · Published November 5, 2020
If you work within any type of Government Microsoft 365 Tenant, known as GCC, you should understand by now that the features are not the same as provided within a regular commercial Microsoft 365...
Error / General / Installation / SharePoint / SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint 2013 / SharePoint 2016 / SharePoint 2019 / Upgrade / Weirdness
by Liam Cleary · Published October 29, 2020
Hopefully you are not in the same boat as some organizations, who have applied the SharePoint 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 September 2020 Cumulative Update. As has happened in the past (just a few...
ADFS / Authentication / Authorization / How To Configuration / Operating Systems / Password / Security / SharePoint / SharePoint 2019 / Windows
by Liam Cleary · Published August 21, 2020
In Part 1, we reviewed my configuration, updated the certificates, and added the “Claims Provider Trusts” within each ADFS Server. In this post, we’ll configure the “Claims” for each trust, ready for testing authentication.
Cloud / JSON / Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Teams / Office 365 / Policies / PowerShell / Scripting / Uncategorized
by Liam Cleary · Published October 31, 2020 · Last modified October 30, 2020
Over the past few months I have worked on multiple projects and training courses for Microsoft Teams. A common task is creating policies and applying them to either users or groups. Creating them, can...
donate / donations / General / gofundme / Ramblings
by Liam Cleary · Published September 29, 2020 · Last modified November 5, 2020
Over the years, like most of you, I have donated and helped where I can. Sometimes it has been money, sometimes donation of time and sometimes donations of seemingly random things. The goal of...
Exchange Online / General / Mail / Microsoft 365 / Multi-Factor / Note / Office 365 / PowerShell / Scripting
by Liam Cleary · Published December 11, 2020
If like me, you use PowerShell or Scripts of any kind, sometimes you find things don’t work, and then you find those commands that resolve it. Isn’t it true that down the line, when...
It has been a while since I created a playlist, so felt like I needed to create one, that includes some heavy bass!!! Dusk – Jordan Comolli Until Dawn – Jaeger Apache – BVRNOUT,...
Architecture / Authorization / Azure / Azure Active Directory / Cybersecurity / Hardening / Microsoft 365 / Office 365 / Permissions / Policy / Security
by Liam Cleary · Published November 30, 2020
Recently I was asked about using a single Microsoft 365 Tenant in a multi-tenancy way. Many schools in the UK are part of what is called a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). Conceptually, a school acts...
Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Teams / Office 365 / PowerShell / Scripting
by Liam Cleary · Published November 10, 2020
The purpose of Teams Policies is to restrict or control specific features or functions. Though they are available, many organizations don’t use them. To assist with this, Microsoft does provide “Global” policies that contain...
Coding / General / Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Teams / Policies / Policy / PowerShell / Uncategorized
by Liam Cleary · Published October 26, 2020
When working with Microsoft Teams, a fairly new feature is the ability to assign Teams Policies to groups of accounts. Teams itself, has not really supported this, even though you could assign policies to...
General / Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Teams / Office 365 / Policies / Policy
by Liam Cleary · Published October 15, 2020
I am sure like most of you, working with Teams is now a daily task. You attend and probably create multiple meetings each day. For the past few months I have spent a lot...
ADFS / Architecture / Authentication / Authorization / How To Configuration / Identity / Installation / Operating Systems / Security / SharePoint / SharePoint 2019 / Toplogy / Windows
by Liam Cleary · Published August 20, 2020
As part of the work I often get involved with, it tends
to involve Federated Authentication either with On-Premises or Cloud Services.
In the past, I have used Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) as the middleman
between all kinds of applications and configurations. Most recently, I have
been working with multiple third-party federated platforms, that pass-through
ADFS onto some applications such as SharePoint of Office 365. A common question I often get asked either through
twitter, blog comments, or even email is about multiple Active Directory Forest,
Multiple Active Directory Federated Services configuration, and other
applications. As such, I thought a blog post was to explain this and
walk-through a sample setup.
Courses / General / MCT / MVP / MVPAward / Ramblings / Speaking / Weirdness
by Liam Cleary · Published July 10, 2020
Like most of you, we have been in lock-down here in Virginia since March. Now we are opening back up with some restrictions. It has meant though, that my three boys have been here...
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