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Act now: Turn on or customize Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies
This blog was originally published on the Entra ID blog on 3/19.
As part of our Secure Future Initiative, we announced Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies in November 2023. These policies are designed to help you secure …
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse: A new look and a bright future
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We’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft 365 Lighthouse has a brand-new icon. As we welcome more and more MSPs to Lighthouse, our new icon helps communicate our product identity a…
Introducing the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Power Platform Integration Guide
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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse and Microsoft Power Platform Integration Guide. This guide provides a clear, step-by-step approach to integrat…
Deep Dive of Microsoft-managed Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID
This blog was originally published on the Entra ID blog on 2/6.
In November 2023 at Microsoft Ignite, we announced Microsoft-managed policies and the auto-rollout of multifactor authentication (MFA)-related Conditional Access policies&…
Auto Rollout of Conditional Access Policies in Microsoft Entra ID
The linked blog post was originally published on the Microsoft Security Blog on November 6th, 2023. We are sharing it again on the SMB Tech Community blog channel to ensure that all of our partners, who manage customer tenants and their conditional acc…
Unlock the Copilot opportunity and grow your CSP business with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
Today we announced that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available through all sales channels, including the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. We also removed the minimum purchase requirement and expanded prerequisite licensing to be more inclusiv…
Enabling security and management across all your SMB customers with Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
One of the common adoption blockers we have heard of from our partners is that they cannot standardize their security and management practices on Microsoft 365 Lighthouse because they cannot manage all their customers using it. This has made it challen…
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse: 2023 Year in Review
As we wrap up 2023, we want to acknowledge our partners’ continued support and feedback for Microsoft 365 Lighthouse. Over 11k partners are now using Lighthouse to keep their customers healthy and secure, with nearly half of those partners coming on bo…
Microsoft 365 innovations for small and medium business in 2023
Brenna Robinson,
General Manager, Modern Work, Small and Medium Business
We’ve been busy building new products and features for Microsoft 365—all so you can be more productive, creative and grow your customer base. From enabling payments right i…