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Why you should upgrade your free legacy Google Apps accounts to Google Workspace Business Licenses ?

If you own a business and you have been in the Google world for a long time, and you have been talking for over five years, you may have access to a Google free account. Now, what this means is a business account, now called Google Workspace, but you are not paying for it. Now, these are very old accounts.    They were called Google for Enterprise, Google for your domain, Google for Business, Google Apps for Work, and then it eventually became Google Workspace.   But if you are on a very old account, you can be given five users for free, or maybe 50 users on super old accounts for free.   And these can look like free rides. For those business owners who have access to these, but there are also some very real threats with operating on one of these accounts. Now,  for me personally, I had a few of these accounts, and I chose to upgrade these paid commercial accounts for a very obvious reason.   Reason number one is that getting access to support just doesn't ...

Implementation of Microsoft 365 DMARC records on the DNS panel

Conformance with Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identity Mail DKIM   DKIM authenticates mail senders and ensures that the destination email system sends messages from your domain.   Executing DMARC with SPF and DKIM provides additional protection against spoofing and phishing emails. The DMARC helps the mail system determine what to do with However, there is other syntax options that are not mentioned here, these are the most commonly used options for Microsoft 365. The DMARC TXT records for your domain in the format: Note: while creating the records you have to add your actual domain name instead of techcloudsuraj.com  _dmarc.techcloudsuraj.com  TTL IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=policy; pct=100”   The domain here is the one you want to protect. By default, the record saves mail on the domain and all sub-domains. for example, If you specify _dmarc.techcloudsuraj.com , DMARC protects mail from domains an...

Termination Policy for Microsoft 365 Groups

With the prolong use of Microsoft 365 groups, administrators and users need a way to cleaning unused groups. Termination policies can help remove inactive groups from the system and remove clutter created over time. When the group ends, all it's associated services (mailbox, planner, SharePoint site, team, etc.) are also deleted.   When the group expires it is "soft-delete" which means that it can still be recovered for up to 30 days.   Administrators can specify an expiration period and any idle group that reaches the end of that period, and it has not been renewed, will be deleted. The term of termination begins when the group is formed, or the date it was last renewed. The owners of the group will be automatically sent an email before the closing which allows them to win the group for another closing interval. Users of teams will see continuous notifications across teams.   Actively used groups are automatically renewed. One of the below tasks will automatically renew ...

Automatic reply from Microsoft 365 shared mailbox account

Automatic reply is one of the most widely used in any corporate sector for an acknowledgement mail to the sender.   In this blog, I will discuss how to set up an automated reply to a shared mailbox in Microsoft 365 using Exchange Admin.  If you want to create an auto-reply to a shared mailbox or a regular mailbox then follow the below instructions.   Exchange administrators can also enable automatic replies for user, without logging in to the mailbox by using the Exchange Admin Center (Through mail flow rule).   For configuration of automatic reply you need to create a shared mailbox features, like Hr@techcloudsuraj.com or carrier@techcloudsuraj.com     Once the shared mailbox creation done then you have to assigned the policies to the Hr people those are work in Hr. department, Once the policy assignment done then you to open the shared mailbox from open with the another mail account, and create the Out of office message like (or you can create the rule...

Force Exchange Online Archive to start email collection on Microsoft 365

when you enable Exchange online archiving for a user on Microsoft 365, it can take 24 hours or more to manage, starting and starting email to run it before the primary mailbox. If you want this process to start immediately, connect Microsoft 365 to PowerShell and ask the Managed Folder Assistant to turn on. Open the PowerShell or Windows PowerShell ISE by using Administrator mode   Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection   Import-PSSession $Session   Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity user@example.com Then start waiting for 5 minutes or so and check progress by logging into OWA (Outlook Web App) and viewing the contents of the in-place archive mailbox in the left-hand sidebar or through the Exchange Admin Center. > Mailbox> Recipients> In-Pla...

Microsoft 365 security advantages over traditional infrastructure

Microsoft 365 security advantages over traditional infrastructure   Microsoft 365 Provides some additional security advantages over traditional infrastructure. Eliminating costly infrastructure that previously required, eliminating advanced IT knowledge that used to be required, as well as services such as 100 GB mailboxes (based on packages), online meetings, document collaboration, 99.9% uptime, and enhanced flexibility. With a bundle of. The cloud platform allows businesses to access email, documents, contacts, and calendars on a cross-platform architecture to provide users with services they need only at any time. For a lot of companies, Microsoft 365 solves the problem of costly infrastructure, or complex exchange deployments and not investing in HA / DR because currently IT departments are in the cloud free of all the hassles. From a flexibility point of view, M365 provides the following functions in terms of access anytime and anywhere. Microsoft 365 can be accessed through ...