Month: January 2023

ABOUT ICANN – Planning and Implementing a Microsoft 365 Tenant-1

Posted on by Adriana Guarin

ICANN (short for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a non-profit organization tasked with providing guidance and policy around the internet’s unique identifiers (domains). It was chartered in 1998. Prior to 1998, Network Solutions operated the global domain name system registry under a subcontract from the United States Defense Information Systems Agency.

You can search the list of domain registrars here: https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars.

Microsoft

In addition to choosing a third-party registrar, organizations may also wish to use Microsoft as the registrar. Depending on your subscription, you may have direct access to purchasing domain names from within the Microsoft 365 admin center, as shown in Figure 1.4:

Figure 1.4 – Purchasing a domain through the Microsoft 365 admin center

When purchasing a domain through Microsoft, you can select from the following top-level domains:

  • .biz
  • .com
  • .info
  • .me
  • .mobi
  • .net
  • .org
  • .tv
  • .co.uk
  • .org.uk

Domain purchases will be billed separately from your Microsoft 365 subscription services. When purchasing a domain from Microsoft, you’ll have limited ability to manage Domain Name System (DNS) records. If you require custom configuration (such as configuring an MX record to point to a non-Microsoft 365 server), you’ll need to purchase a domain separately.

Configuring a domain name

Configuring a domain for your tenant is a simple procedure and requires access to your organization’s public DNS service provider. Many large organizations may host DNS themselves, while other organizations choose to pay service providers (such as the domain registrar) to host the services.

In order to be compatible with Microsoft 365, a DNS service must support configuring the following types of records:

  • CNAME: Canonical Name records are alias records for a domain, allowing a name to point to another name as a reference. For example, let’s say you have a website named www.contoso.com that resolves to an IP address of 1.2.3.4. Later, you want to start building websites for na.contoso.com and eu.contoso.com on the same web server. You might implement a CNAME record for na.contoso.com to point to www.contoso.com.
  • TXT: A Text Record is a DNS record used to store somewhat unstructured information. Request for Comments (RFC) 1035 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035) specifies that the value must be a text string and gives no specific format for the value data. Over the years, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and other authentication and verification data have been published as TXT records. In addition to SPF and DKIM, the Microsoft 365 domain addition process requires the administrator to place a certain value in a TXT record to confirm ownership of the domain.
  • SRV: A Service Locator record is used to specify a combination of a host in addition to a port for a particular internet protocol or service.
  • MX: The Mail Exchanger record is used to identify which hosts (servers or other devices) are responsible for handling mail for a domain.

In order to use a custom domain (sometimes referred to as a vanity domain) with Microsoft 365, you’ll need to add it to your tenant.

To add a custom domain, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com) and log in.
  2. Expand Settings and select Domains.

Figure 1.5 – Domains page of the Microsoft 365 admin center

3. Click Add domain.

4. On the Add a domain page, enter the custom domain name you wish to add to your Microsoft 365 tenant. Select Use this domain to continue.

Figure 1.6 – Add a domain page

Summary – Implementing Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Lifecycle Management

Posted on by Adriana Guarin

In this chapter, you learned about some of the important compliance tasks that many organizations face, such as content classification and retention. You learned about the foundational technical concepts around sensitive information types. SITs are used to classify content and can be used in the Microsoft Purview solutions including labeling and retention.

In the next chapter, you’ll apply the SIT knowledge learned here to another compliance concept: data loss prevention.

Exam Readiness Drill – Chapter Review Questions
Benchmark Score: 75%
Apart from a solid understanding of key concepts, being able to think quickly under time pressure is a skill that will help you ace your certification exam. That’s why, working on these skills early on in your learning journey is key.

Chapter review questions are designed to improve your test-taking skills progressively with each chapter you learn and review your understanding of key concepts in the chapter at the same time. You’ll find these at the end of each chapter.

Before You Proceed
You need to unlock these resources before you start using them. Unlocking takes less than 10 minutes, can be done from any device, and needs to be done only once. Head over to the start of Chapter 7, Managing Security Reports and Alerts by Using the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal in this book for instructions on how to unlock them.

To open the Chapter Review Questions for this chapter, click the following link:
https://packt.link/MS102E1_CH10. Or, you can scan the following QR code:

Figure 10.57 – QR code that opens Chapter Review Questions for logged-in users

Once you login, you’ll see a page similar to what is shown in Figure 10.58:

Figure 10.58 – Chapter Review Questions for Chapter 10

Once ready, start the following practice drills, re-attempting the quiz multiple times:

Exam Readiness Drill

For the first 3 attempts, don’t worry about the time limit.

ATTEMPT 1
The first time, aim for at least 40%. Look at the answers you got wrong and read the relevant sections in the chapter again to fix your learning gaps.

ATTEMPT 2
The second time, aim for at least 60%. Look at the answers you got wrong and read the relevant sections in the chapter again to fix any remaining learning gaps.

ATTEMPT 3
The third time, aim for at least 75%. Once you score 75% or more, you start working on your timing.

Tip
You may take more than 3 attempts to reach 75%. That’s okay. Just review the relevant sections in the chapter till you get there.

Working On Timing
Target: Your aim is to keep the score the same while trying to answer these questions as quickly as possible. Here’s an example of how your next attempts should look like:

Table 10.2 – Sample timing practice drills on the online platform

Note
The time limits shown in the above table are just examples. Set your own time limits with each attempt based on the time limit of the quiz on the website.

With each new attempt, your score should stay above 75% while your time taken to complete should decrease. Repeat as many attempts as you want till you feel confident dealing with the time pressure.