Microsoft is giving Purview eDiscovery a make-over to introduce a modernized UI and to simplify the solution into standard and premium variants. Content searches are going away, but the same functionality is available as a standard case. It's time to prepare the folks who work on compliance and run eDiscovery investigations for the changes coming at the end of 2024/2025.
Oversharing of information is a major concern in the AI era. This article describes how to write a script to report file sharing for OneDrive for Business accounts. The report details the files shared, the type of sharing link and access, and who can access the files. It's an example of using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to understand what's happening in a tenant.
The room mailbox statistics script has proven to be a popular script downloaded and used by many to analyze the usage patterns of room mailboxes. Recently, a reader pointed out that the Graph API request to fetch workspaces didn't work. Microsoft has changed the Places resource and the request now needed to run against the beta endpoint. All of which brought me to rewrite the script using the Graph SDK.
Users receive all manner of notification messages from different sources. These messages are of no great value after a few days, so here's a script to find and remove messages to clean up mailboxes. All written using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
Microsoft's big launch of Copilot Wave 2 featured many new capabilities, like a super-duper focused Inbox for Outlook (one that works this time), Python in Excel, and a profusion of agents for SharePoint Online. The idea behind agents is pretty good and should be valuable, even if IT might have some dark thoughts about how agents might allow people to access information that they shouldn't (this won't happen).
Three years ago, we described how to create organizational contacts in user mailboxes with Graph API requests. In this iteration, we read the contacts from a Microsoft list and use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to update user mailboxes. The techniques explained in the article can be used in many scenarios.
Microsoft plans a transition of the current Exchange Server licensing and support model to Exchange Server subscription edition (SE) starting in 2025. Organizations must prepare for the transition by upgrading servers to the latest cumulative updates of Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019. The transition is unlikely to be seamless, but glitches can be avoided by good planning and careful monitoring of community discussions.
Microsoft Lists are a powerful tool for end users to store and manage data stored in SharePoint Online sites. The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK includes cmdlets to work with Microsoft Lists and this article explains how to use the cmdlets to add new lists, add items to lists, retrieve data from lists, and remove items from lists.
Dynamic watermarking is a new feature for sensitivity labels that's intended to provide a visual deterrent to screen captures of confidential documents. The feature works by using the email address of the signed-in user as a watermark. Everything works and the feature seems effective, but this isn't something to use with every sensitivity label.
Microsoft released the initial implementation of a cloud-based message recall feature last year. Now they're back with a set of enhancements to take the rough edges off, like explaining to users why messages disappear from the inbox and enabling support for external services like email hygiene and mail autosignature providers.
Sometimes sensitivity labels defined for use within a Microsoft 365 tenant turn out to be unnecessary. The question then is what to do with these unwanted sensitivity labels. The answer is to pause for thought, gather information, and then make an informed decision, all of which we discuss here.
Exchange Online mail folders and messages are a very important resource for Microsoft 365 tenants. This article discusses how to use cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to retrieve information about mailbox folders and mail messages together with some performance tips for dealing with folders that store thousands of messages.
