Microsoft Teams distribute company background via GPO (company branding)

Some time ago you were able to define backgrounds or bluring in Microsoft Teams. If you choose a background there are some predefined from microsoft. The download URL for backgrounds: https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/evergreen-assets/backgroundimages/ Custombackgrounds are stored inside the user Teams V1 %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads Teams V2 %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams\Backgrounds\Uploads. If you have a company and want to give your users the …

Office 365 Business name changes the Second (to Microsoft 365)

Microsoft product group decided to change the names of smaller business products in the office 365 universe. This change takes affect on April 21, 2020 (automatically). First of all here are the new names (offical blogpost): Office 365 Business Essentials -> Microsoft 365 Business BasicOffice 365 Business Premium -> Microsoft 365 Business StandardOffice 365 Business …

Windows Server DomainController find LDAP binds

Some time ago Microsoft announced the changing of default domain controller behavior for ldap and ldap signing. See LINK.This affects every supported version of Windows Server (from 2008R2 till 2019). There is another LINK ADV190023 with detailed explanation. I think there should be no discussion to change your domaincontroller to ldap signing only. But what …

Connect local explorer to Microsoft Teams files

UPDATE 04/04/2020: the newest teams version gives you a small button to sync, this uses the same link in sharepoint. But you can use Sharepoint version also. Teams is a really cool collaboration software from Microsoft, but some things are kind of inconvenient. Lot of customers ask me how to sync the files from teams …

Office 365 E-Mail forward attack via inboxrules in user mailboxes

NOTE: you can also use the code on exchange onpremises 2010 and aboveA customer called me two weeks ago, that he got the feedback from his customer that he is sending some strange mails. So I had a look at the O365 security and clompliance center. After searching some reports I found out, that every …