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Exporting All Entra Cloud Groups

-Start of Shift- Ticket#000001 “Please Remove Matt Jacobs from the group: Super-Awesome-Admins” What Just Happened? Well…. someone got a little click happy and deleted the entire group instead of deleting a single member from the group. Now what do we do? It’s not an M365 group so we can’t recover it from Deleted Items. It’s…

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Automating AzureAD / EntraID SAML Certificate Expiration Email Addresses

Whoah…. what a long title! I know, I know and I’m sorry. What I’m about to cover is something that I think most administrators might miss. I know it’s bit me before (I’m not ashamed to admit it). Okay, let’s say you’ve just finished integrating a new SSO application to your EntraID list Enterprise Applications…

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Exchange Online SMTP Auth on Depreciation Path

There is an interesting change that will be happening over the next year for Exchange Online consumers. Microsoft has announced that Basic authentication with Client Submission (SMTP AUTH) will be deprecated in September 2025. I’ll be following this thread as it evolves but the one thing that stands out to me is what to do…

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Microsoft Azure Active Directory is now Microsoft Entra ID

I’ve had many people ask me this question lately: “Hey I noticed this icon changed from AzureAD to EntraID, What up with that MJ?” Well that’s a good question! To me this boils down in to two talking points. My first talking point, I swear I picked up from Microsoft either in a blog post,…

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Welcome all who have stumbled upon this website. My name is Matt and I wanted to create a website / blog about all things cloud, security, and technology. I think one of the biggest challenges I have faced in my career has been finding answers. While it’s no secret that you some times need a…