Friday, April 14, 2017

Advanced Threat Protection expands to Office 365 ProPlus

I have been watching the Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service evolve over the past year.  Every time they add some new, I am just impressed.

In the most recent announcement, it was stated that ATP Safe Links is now being extended to the Office 365 ProPlus desktop clients.  That is super exciting.  So now embedded links that are in Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are protected by ATP Safe Links.

ATP initially started as an Exchange Online solution.  It has subsequently expanded to Office Online (browser).  The goal is to have ATP Safe Links uniformly applied to all Office 365 services.

Announcement - https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/04/announcing-the-release-of-threat-intelligence-and-advanced-data-governance-plus-significant-updates-to-advanced-threat-protection/
Other Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) feature releases - http://www.astaticstate.com/search/label/Advanced%20Threat%20Protection

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Skype for Business Online Ranges and Port Changes are Coming

For a long time, customers that have transitioned to Skype for Business Online have provided feedback on the number of IP ranges and ports that are required to be configured with an enterprise’s firewalls.  Microsoft Office 365 will be making some changes alleviate these challenges.

Recommend reading this and monitoring this as the changes are being rolled out -  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-Operations-Framework-Skype/Updated-IP-ranges-and-ports-for-Skype-for-Business-Online/ba-p/47470