Recently I loaded up a client website to do some standard WordPress. The public site was fine, but when I tried to login to the admin, I got the dreaded White Screen of Death. For those unfamiliar,...
Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Enrolling Devices
Suppose you’ve started to move toward managing your devices in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune). There are a lot of methods available to do that. I’ll highlight just a few of the most interestin...
Azure AD: Conditional Access Policies
Passwords are inadequate. Even for standard consumer tools, you should have at least two more tools in your toolbox: a password manager and multi-factor authentication. Those help make passwords su...
Azure AD: Guest Users from Google
Most users of Microsoft 365 have encountered the idea of guest users at some point. If you want to share company resources to somebody outside the company, you can do that. By default this works wi...
My (Freelance) Web Development Workflow
When I work on a freelance website (I have more advanced tools in my day job), especially once I need to deploy some custom code, I have several tools at my disposal I want to set up. Here’s what t...
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policies
Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft 365 is a feature that helps prevent loss of sensitive data (that makes sense) coming out of your system. This can be within emails or within files, although the la...
Microsoft Teams: Change Your Profile Picture as a Guest
If you’ve operated as a guest in a different company’s Microsoft Teams tenant, you may have noticed that you don’t get the same user photo that you do in your own tenant. Instead, you only get your...
SMTP Through a Google Account
Many applications like business scanners or hosted CRM systems come with features that send email. To do so, it has to be able to connect to an email account that it sends on behalf of. The main ch...
SharePoint: Accessing Files
Suppose you’ve now set up all of your files for your organization in the ideal way, with some in individual user OneDrives and others in group SharePoint sites. The natural follow-up question is: n...
OneDrive vs SharePoint
The first question that typically comes up when moving files to Microsoft 365 is this: what’s the difference between OneDrive and SharePoint? Which files should I put where? Permissions The most ...