Brian Reid – Microsoft 365 Subject Matter Expert

Category: windows 10

  • Windows Updates – Am I Missing Something?

    Windows Updates – Am I Missing Something?

    In an enterprise, lots of machines to manage, it is a common question (probably not common enough) to ask if my devices are patched, up to date and therefore more secure than if I just leave them to their own devices. The good news is that reports that show the state of all your machines…

  • Free Web Content Filtering With Microsoft Defender ATP

    Well free as in you need an MDATP licence first, but as this used to be an add on feature on top of MDATP with an additional cost, this is now effectively free once you are licensed for MDATP. The feature enables your organisation to track and regulate access to websites based on their content…

  • Office ATP Safe Documents

    This is a new feature in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 2 in addition to Safe Attachments. Safe Documents at the time of writing is only available in US based Office 365 tenants and only used by Office 365 ProPlus 2002 Monthly Channel (Targeted) builds (build 12527.20092) and later. When a user receives an…

  • Outlook Authentication Broken–Username and Password Missing

    I came across an issue recently where the Outlook security dialog box popup was broken. Rather than looking as below, the username and password fields where missing: The dialog box appeared as: Notice that the username and password fields are missing! Also missing, and the key to this issue, is the picture is missing too.…