Things to Turn on in Office 365 Out the Box

Disable Clutter Mode in Outlook

Notification

Billing

  • Office 365 subscriptions billing administrators goes to licensing@ email
  • Azure configured in subscriptions
  • Management
  • Azure using ea configured per department

Organisation Profile

  • Company Information
  • Technical contact
  • Azure AD Connect
  • Get-MsolCompanyInformation
  • Set-MsolCompanyContactInformation -TechnicalNotificationEmails “<email address>”
  • Technical contact should be set to generic IT email address for the client. If in doubt, use [email protected]
  • Message center preference – disable weekly digest

Azure AD Connect

Notification to generic email address

 

Security & Compliance

Region and industry settings – configure appropriately

Enable Auditing of admin user activities

  1. Visit https://protection.office.comas an Office 365 admin
  2. Click Search & investigation
  3. Click Audit log search
  4. If it’s not enabled you’ll see a link to Start recording user and admin activities. Click it to enable the Unified Audit Log.

User Accounts

Enforce MFA

Update wallpaper on domain controllers for clients we managed to notify administrator that MFA has been turned on for Office 365.

MFA activation issue

portal.office default to use SMS, update account to use mobile app

 

Enable Remember password for 14 days as a company wide settings

Disable user ability to change their password via Office 365 portal, if Azure AD Premium is not purchased.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ilvancri/2012/06/22/take-away-the-possibility-for-users-in-exchange-online-to-change-their-own-password/

Otherwise, password write back should be implemented for Azure Premium clients.

 

Exchange Online

Limit permission for outlook Groups – https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2016/06/07/controlling-the-creation-of-office-365-groups-using-an-azure-active-directory-policy/

Auditing of mailbox – audit owner activities

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