M365 Copilot licensing

A recent question was asked about Microsoft M365 Copilot licening. Does a tenant need to license all users or is a subset of users available? M365 Copilot is like any other workload, you see the licenses in the admin center and can assign them to individuals or groups using the GUI or PowerShell. From the

M365 Copilot supported Office versions

For Microsoft M365 Copilot, you need to be on the Current Channel release of Click to Run applications. Monthly and Semi-annual are not yet currently supported for M365 Copilot. Therefore, if you are planning on rolling out Microsoft M365 Copilot for your tenant, you need to ensure you are on the Current Channel deployment. Will

M365 Copilot, Outlook for Mobile reset

I was recently working with a customer enabling Copilot for their end users. After the Copilot license was assigned, it took several minutes to have Outlook for Windows, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams to have the Copilot option appear. However, the Outlook for Mobile app was taking longer. As a first step (as always it seems

Self-service PowerShell throttling change

You can now relax the PowerShell throttling in your tenant, following these steps. Just like the EWS throttling change, you can do the same task for PowerShell. To request a relaxation of the PowerShell throttling, follow these steps. When logged into the O365 admin portal, simply select the ‘Need help?’ icon at the bottom right

What will administrators look like in the future

Another day to reflect on the labor of system administrators. What will a system administrator job look like in the future. One guess is, more of a developer than a server administrator. A system administrator role in Information Technology (IT) has certainly changed over the years and will continue evolve. Back in the day, there

Self-service EWS throttling change

Up until recently, the process to get a relaxed throttling limit during an O365 onboarding migration, was to open a Microsoft Support case. This process is now available as a self-service option. During an O365/M365 data migration, there are several performance best practices to follow. But even after following the guidelines, sometimes the cloud service

Windows Server 2019 FFL/DFL

Q: Where is Windows Server 2019 FFL/DFL? A: There isn't one. Since there was no updates or changes to the Forest or Domain functional levels of AD, there is not a 2019 level, but only a 2016 level. This is the information about Windows FFL/DFL's: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/active-directory-functional-levels This image also shows the various paths and options

FieldNote: Scanned firewall, found TCP ports open: 25, 80, 443

One time, I had a phone call from the ISP for the company I was working at and they said they did a firewall scan without notifying us. Ok, thanks for that, but next time, be honest and let us know when you are going to perform a penetration test and we’ll be happy to

Pin virtual guests to specific physical hosts

This is a common discussion, who should be in charge of High Availability (HA), the host virtualization operating system or the application? If you ask an electrician how to fix something, they’ll tell you to rewire it. If you ask a carpenter what is wrong, they will say rebuild it. If you ask a virtualization

Where is OMA?

Some of you may ask, what is OMA? Back in the day, Exchange 2003, mobile devices were starting to make their way into the corporate world. Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) was introduced to help provide a small, thin foot print to mobile devices. You have to also remember that back in 2003, cellular networks were not what they are