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Where is Microsoft Forms data stored?
Microsoft Forms data is stored in servers in the United States. “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” How might this affect you? You might assume, for example, that if your Office 365 tenancy is in Canada that all your data resides in Canada as well. This, however, is not the case. …
Read onSet up MFA with Conditional Access
Setting up Multi Factor Authentication for your users in Azure AD has honestly never been easier. Bit of a shocker but it’s true! The process guides your users through a series of steps that require them to register their security info and choose an authentication method. The process can take less than 5mins. And they …
Read onRemove Personal OneDrive from Quick Launch
There’s only 1 OneDrive but if you have a Microsoft Business account it will appear twice in your Windows Quick Launch. Once as your “business” OneDrive which is appended with your company name and a second time as your “personal” OneDrive. This can often provide confusion to end users and I find that it is …
Read onConditional Access and Location Restrictions in Azure AD
Steps to Set Up Conditional Access to Named Locations What? You need/want to tighten security and protect your company data. So What? Perhaps you see suspicious sign-ins reported in Azure and/or your users work remotely and sign in from External (unknown) IP’s. You need to add some security to isolate data access locations without causing …
Read onMicrosoft Teams: My Typical Morning
In the Modern Workplace there can be a lot of new gadgets, widgets, apps and tools. I’ve tried many, I’ve liked many but not as much as I “Love” Microsoft Teams! My Typical Work Day Morning Remember the days of logging into your workstation and opening Outlook, Excel, Skype (or Messenger if you can recall …
Read onMS Teams & “External Apps”
What? Recently we came across an issue within our Tenancy where we could not see the new “Teams Apps” features in the Teams Admin portal. Many of our clients tenancies had this feature available to them when it rolled out to General Availability. Given that our tenancy is set to Targeted Release we were puzzled …
Read onMy OneNote Desktop Client is Missing!
If you are like me and prefer the OneNote desktop client over the “built in” Windows 10 App then keep reading. Simply put MicroSoft will no longer be developing new features for OneNote 2016 and it will NOT be available as a desktop client in Office 2019 or newer versions of Office Pro Plus (office …
Read onWhat the MFA?
Thinking about moving to a more secure model of User Verification is a great idea especially these days. Office 365 and Azure AD provide the means to increase security for users using either 2-step verification or AzureAD MFA. Multi Factor Authentication. What is it anyway? Typically it is Why is MFA important? The security of …
Read onWhere is MS Forms Data Stored?
Where is MS Forms Data stored? Microsoft Forms data is stored on servers in the United States, with the exception of data for European-based tenants. The data for European-based tenants is stored on servers in Europe. Will MS Forms Data be stored in Canada? So far storing Forms Data is not on the Road Map …
Read onOffice 365: Some Helpful Tips
Ever Changing, Ever Growing and Always Offering More Some days in the Office 365 portal I see buttons or features that were not there the previous day. One day I swear I saw a new link appear right before my eyes. Don’t miss out on what Office 365 has to offer. With a myriad of …
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