Describe the Reports Available in the Admin Centers – Describe the Analytics Capabilities of Microsoft 365

Describe the Reports Available in the Admin Centers Part of your role as an administrator may be either to drive utilization of Microsoft 365 services or to provide reports or supporting documentation to organizational change management individuals who are responsible for helping end users adopt Microsoft 365 services. The Microsoft 365 admin center provides reports ...

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Microsoft 365 User Portal – Describe the Analytics Capabilities of Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 User Portal The Microsoft 365 user portal (https://portal.office.com) features access to all of the Microsoft 365 apps that a user is licensed to use. The Microsoft 365 portal highlights the most recently accessed documents on the dashboard, as shown in Figure 6.5: Figure 6.5 – Microsoft 365 user portal dashboard Other features of ...

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Actions – Describe the Analytics Capabilities of Microsoft 365

Actions New to the Adoption Score tooling, Adoption Score actions can be used to help guide users toward getting better use out of the Microsoft 365 services. For example, your organization might have a recommended action to encourage people to use @ mentions in Outlook messages. You can click on the recommended action to view ...

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Teams Admin Center – Describe the Analytics Capabilities of Microsoft 365

Teams Admin Center The Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) has many Teams- specific usage reports, including information about calling statistics, meetings, user, and device data. Teams usage reports can be accessed by navigating to the Teams admin center (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) and selecting Analytics & reports > Usage reports, as shown in Figure 6.14: Figure 6.14 – ...

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Describe the Zero-Trust Model – Describe Zero Trust Principles for Microsoft 365

Describe the Zero-Trust Model Traditional Information Technology (IT) security measures have relied primarily on treating the corporate infrastructure as a boundary—everything inside the local network is safe, while anything outside the firewall is a threat. However, the proliferation of mobile devices, hybrid work, and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) scenarios has allowed organizational data to be freely transported ...

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Assume Breach – Describe Zero Trust Principles for Microsoft 365

Assume Breach This final piece of the zero-trust model stresses that the design of the network, security, and other access controls should treat every attempt as hostile. As an administrator or architect approaching security with this design philosophy, you may choose to segment your network and application resources, require specific device or network configurations, and ...

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Role Management – Describe Zero Trust Principles for Microsoft 365

Role Management Permissions allow organizations to provide certain individuals with elevated access so that they can perform specific operations in the service. A common strategy that is shared across different Microsoft 365 admin centers is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). RBAC will allow—under the minimum level of permissions needed—users (categorized by roles) to execute their tasks ...

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Audit Logs – Describe Zero Trust Principles for Microsoft 365

Audit Logs Successful operations and governance strategies rely partially on being able to audit actions taken in the service. Adhering to zero trust principles means that all activities performed in the tenant are available for review. Microsoft 365 allows administrators to review activities that are performed either by users or administrators through the audit logs. ...

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Audit Retention Policies – Describe Zero Trust Principles for Microsoft 365

Audit Retention Policies As mentioned in the previous section, audit logs have a default retention period: users with E3 licenses are enabled for 90-day retention, and users with E5 licenses are enabled for up to a year’s retention. With the Microsoft Purview compliance center, you can create retention policies to govern how long the audit ...

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