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Microsoft starts permanently disabling basic auth on October 1, 2022, with surprise 12-to-48-hour shutoffs in early 2022. Three multi-tenant PowerShell scripts show you what will break.
September 2021 for MSPs: NCE brings a 20% monthly premium to seat-based CSP, basic auth gets an October 2022 kill date with surprise shutoffs sooner, and the classic EAC starts winding down.
July 2021 for MSPs: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse enters free public preview, Outlook meetings go online by default, Teams adds Fluid components, and Secure Score gets five Teams checks.
June 2021 for MSPs: E2EE arrives for 1:1 Teams calls, meetings can auto-record, recordings become searchable by transcript, and the first contact safety tip moves into anti-phishing policy.
May 2021 for MSPs: the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse service plan lands in Business Premium, external group chat hits GA with 250 participants, and reply-all storm protection becomes tunable.
April 2021 for MSPs: Teams adds webinars, meeting locks and dial-in IDs, Exchange ships a new admin center and spoof controls, and Conditional Access gains GPS-based named locations.
Five PowerShell scripts that auto-document licensing, MFA status, Exchange, and Intune into Syncro, and create user contacts on the customer record, so the documentation maintains itself.
Forgotten licenses on converted shared mailboxes quietly drain margin. Here is a scheduled Azure Function, plus a local script, that finds and strips them across all your customers.
Move recurring PowerShell jobs off an on-prem server and into serverless Azure Functions, authenticating to every customer tenant with the secure application model.
March 2021's Microsoft 365 changes that matter to MSPs: attendee camera controls in Teams, granular EOP quarantine release, new least-privilege admin roles, and self-service purchase expansion.
A GoDaddy-federated Microsoft 365 tenant can't move to CSP or Direct. Here is how to defederate it in place, keep every user account, and bring it under your management with no downtime.
January 2021's Microsoft 365 changes for MSPs: a stricter Teams lobby setting, more secure connector webhook URLs, the Skype for Business Online Connector retirement, and Intune OS support cutoffs.
