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Desired state configuration turns M365 baselines from physical checklists into monitored, enforceable standards. We review Microsoft 365 DSC and take an honest look at Simeon Cloud's friendlier take.
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse now bulk-migrates DAP to GDAP with suggested role tiers, reusable templates, and built-in JIT access. How the wizard works and how it compares to CIPP.
Azure AD P2 auto-remediates risky users; P1 only detects them. This Power Automate flow sweeps every customer tenant for risk detections and opens a PSA ticket the moment a new one lands.
Field notes from a real GDAP migration: a seven-step checklist, the security group and PIM structure that worked, and answers on customer emails, competencies, Azure access, and distributors.
App registrations ride on DAP pre-consent. When DAP relationships disappear in early 2023, vendor integrations like IT Glue, CIPP, and HaloPSA stop reading customer tenants until re-consented.
Two ways to bulk-migrate DAP to GDAP before the deadline: Microsoft's CSV-driven CLI gives granular control, CIPP's built-in wizard gives speed. Here is how to pick, with a demo of both.
Huntress's native PSA integrations stop at tickets and agreements. A Power Automate custom connector opens the full API: incident chaining, QuickBooks billing sync, and cross-vendor device reports.
Microsoft released GDAP for M365 workloads in January 2022. This walkthrough covers requesting the relationship, customer approval, and the security group step most MSPs miss.
Partner Center's Security Center now reports on every DAP relationship, including sign-in activity and stale connections. Here is where to find it and what to cut, as of January 2022.
December 2021 for MSPs: DAP monitoring and self-service removal go live, GDAP hits technical preview for January 2022, SMTP DANE comes to Exchange Online, and Teams quiets its activity feed.
GDAP replaces permanent Global Admin access to every customer tenant with granular, time-bound roles. Here is what changes for MSPs, announced November 2021.
As of November 2021, Microsoft Defender for Business adds near-Plan-2 EDR to Microsoft 365 Business Premium at no extra cost. Here is what MSPs get, what it costs standalone, and the catch.
