Dave Stork
Servicedesk to IT consultant and even some Project Management.
📋 Biography
I've seen all facets of IT: Servicedesk to IT consultant and even some Project Management. As a technical expertise I've focused on Microsoft products and mainly the Exchange Server family and Microsoft 365. Currently I am an Cloud Architect, responsible for designing and implementing new environments, quality control during system integration projects, technical strategies, troubleshooting and research and development. I am also responsible for Exchange training programs within our company and sometimes I give custom made Exchange and/or Active Directory trainings on-site to costumers. I am also a speaker at several user groups and (local) conference and a contributor on several Practical PowerShell books More info: www.practicalpowershell.com Sessionize: https://sessionize.com/d-stork
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The Workplace Ninja User Group Netherlands is proud to announce that on Wednesday the 1st of April 2026 we will organize our 2nd in-person event in the year 2026. Managing a Microsoft 365 tenant can be deceptively simple (it is a commodity, right! Right?), but small misconfigurations can lead to security gaps and vulnerabilities. In this session, Microsoft MVP Dave Stork highlights common mistakes he encounters in real-world M365 environments and explains why they introduce unnecessary risk. More importantly, he demonstrates practical, secure alternatives based on Microsoft's latest guidance, CIS benchmarks, and field experience. Attendees will learn how to strengthen administrative identity, access, and posture with approaches such as least‑privilege administration, secure account design, Conditional Access, privileged access management, and automation-first operations. Expect pragmatic insights, recognizable examples, and actionable recommendations to immediately improve your tena
Personal blog focused on Microsoft technology specifically the security side of Exchange, SMTP and Microsoft 365. More longform and cornerstone blogposts.
Acted as co-author, contributor and (technical) reviewer/editor for the following books and updates within the March 2025/2026 time period: Exchange Online Exchange Server 2019 Exchange Server 2016 M365 Security and Compliance Center Not released: Exchange Server Subscription Edition
This is a system auto-created Activity associated with the Exchange Summit 2026.
In this session, Dave Stork will cover key techniques and strategies that protect your organization's incoming and outgoing mail flow. Topics that will pass by: -implementing SPF, DKIM and DMARC to prevent spoofing. -dealing with mail subdomains, forwarding (SRS & ARC) and mail from other SaaS services. -ensure that the mail transport is as secure as possible with TLS, DANE, and MTA-STS. -filtering incoming mail with Defender and the best tips. -Using High Volume Email (HVE) and Azure Communication Services (ACS) This session will also discuss the disadvantages and challenges that one is guaranteed to encounter, and the experiences of the speaker will be shared. The goal is to quickly get your mailflow infrastructure to a higher and more secure level, will touch on some compliance requirements and is ideal to get a clear overview of the most important things to protect your IT environment and your brand.