Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Exchange Security Update – April 2021

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Microsoft has released another Exchange Security Update (April 2021). This new update is for Exchange 2013, 2016 and 2019 and fixes some remote execution vulnerabilities. Microsoft recommends updating all your Exchange Server, that is affected by these vulnerabilities, which is: Exchange 2013 Exchange 2016 Exchange 2019 The Security Update is only available for the latest Cumulative Update level (CU), so if you have not updated the these, then you will need to update CU first. …

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New Critical Security Update for Exchange Server

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Microsoft has just released a critical out-of-band Security Update for all Exchange Server versions, referred to as the March 2021 Security Update for Exchange Server. It is highly recommended to apply this Security Update to all your Exchange Servers as soon as possible. Installing the Security Update To apply the new Security Update (KB5000871), the Exchange Servers need to be on the latest Cumulative Update (CU) or for Exchange 2010 Rollup Update (RU). The Security …

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New Microsoft Security Exams

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Microsoft has released 4 new Security Exams. They are quite interesting for anyone working with Microsoft Security products. One new Fundamental Exam and 3 new Associate Exam: Exam SC-900 | Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam SC-200 | Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate Exam SC-300 | Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate Exam SC-400 | Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate The exams are currently in beta – until march 8th …

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Speaking at Nordic Virtual Summit

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I have the pleasure of speaking at this great new upcoming community-driven event, which is only 2 weeks out. The Nordic Virtual Summit, which is set to run from Feb. 10th to Feb. 11th (Wednesday and Thursday). The event is the result of several communities (A joint venture by #SGUCSE #SCUGDK #SCUGFI #MMUGNO and #MSEndpointMgr) in the Nordics that are organizing the Nordic Virtual Summit. The organizing team behind the event is well-known community leads; Jan …

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The Winter Webinar Series from Microsoft Security

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The Microsoft Security teams are doing a great job with a continuous series of webinars for everyone, their series of webinars is now available. The scheduled series is named “2020-21 Winter Series”, which currently consists of 10 scheduled security-related webinars. It is a great way to get updated on the latest and greatest within the specific topics. The first webinar is scheduled for Jan. 27th 2021 and then they will run through out March 24th …

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