Month: March 2023

Discount on a Microsoft Certification Exam?!? Yes Please!

Those of you who know me know I am pretty close to a dollar. With that today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is how you can get a 50% discount off the cost of a Microsoft certification exam!!!

#MicrosoftLearn is the place to go for all the latest training direct from #Microsoft. It is a free online training platform that provides hands-on, interactive learning for products and services within the #Microsoft ecosystem.

The content is curated specifically for the self-starting #LearnItAll an Information Technology Professionals strives to be. The learning is self-paced and available to you anywhere on any device. There you can ‘build the skills that open doors’.

I have spent hours utilizing Microsoft Learn to ‘skill-up’ on #MicrosoftCloud technologies and utilize it as one of my primary resources for Microsoft certification studies.

One of my favorite ways to absorb this content for my learning style is using the Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge. It’s a fun, free, and interactive program that provides you with access to Microsoft resources and will help you skill-up on Microsoft Cloud Technologies via a gamified experience utilizing Microsoft Learn content!

There are several learning paths to choose from and once you complete the challenge you select within the 30-day window you will earn a 50% discount voucher toward the cost of a Microsoft certification exam!!!

Consider the Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge as part of your next Microsoft certification study plan!

#MicrosoftCloudQuickFix #Microsoft #MicrosoftLearn #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftAzure #CloudSkillsChallenge #LearnItAll

Microsoft to begin sending DMARC Reports

Today’s #MicrosoftQuickFix is that #Microsoft will soon begin sending DMARC Aggregate Reports as part of the #DMARC standard and as the owner of a domain you can request reports be sent to wherever your DMARC DNS record RUA setting points to. Is it time to revisit your #Microsoft365 domains DMARC, DKIM and SPF security settings?

Phishing attacks are getting more sophisticated and most organizations have implemented email security measures like SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) to help mitigate these risks.

Unfortunately SPF and DKIM alone do not provide 100% protection against email attacks or nefarious hackers spoofing a companies domain regardless of SPF and DKIM implementation.

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting) works with SPF and DKIM to authenticate your mail senders. With a DMARC record configured you’ll get reports that provide the status of your email authentication so you can improve it if needed. This helps you detect malicious emails that claim to be from your domain.

Note: DMARC reports are in XML format and contain a lot of technical data. There are several DMARC report analyzer tools available as well as third-party vendors offering DMARC reporting capabilities.

Using DMARC with SPF and DKIM gives organizations more protection against spoofing and phishing of email. DMARC also helps receiving mail systems decide what to do with messages from your domain that fail SPF or DKIM checks thru the actionable DMARC policy you specify.

DMARC Aggregate Reports will be available for all Exchange Online Protection customers beginning in late February 2023 with expected rollout to complete in late March 2023.

For more information about DMARC in Microsoft 365 see:

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftDefender #ExchangeOnline #DMARC #DKIM #SPF #MicrosoftCloudSecurity #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix