From mid-August 2023, Exchange Online will enforce the action defined in the sender DMARC policy for inbound messages detected as spoof (by spoof intelligence). Tenants have the chance to amend their anti-phishing policy to decide what to do with these messages. I favor an outright rejection.
The TEC 2023 PowerShell Challenge Champion will be known after three rounds of frenetic script coding at The Experts Conference in Atlanta on September 19, 2023. Competitors will need a working knowledge of Microsoft 365 PowerShell, including Exchange Online, Teams, and Azure AD. Being able to think on your feet and come up with working solutions to problems is possibly a more important attribute than coding genius.
Microsoft 365 Copilot costs $30/user/month. At that price level, you don't want to assign Copilot licenses to all and sundry in your tenant. That's a recipe for dramatic overspending. In this article, we consider how to select people to receive Copilot licenses on the basis of real need rather than want.
Microsoft 365 Groups display either a default or custom photo to highlight the intent of the group (or team). Some organizations like to exert central control over Microsoft 365 group photos. This article explores how to achieve this goal with PowerShell.
On July 18, Microsoft revealed that the monthly Microsoft 365 Copilot cost will be $30/user. That's on top of an 'eligible' license like Microsoft 365 E3 or E5. The costs of adopting a digital assistant based on artificial intelligence might rule the prospect out for many organizations.
Microsoft Entra administrative units are gaining in popularity. Restricted administrative units are now available and many Purview solutions support administrative units. In this article, we explain how to use Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets to create a report about administrative units, role assignments for their management, and their membership.
Targeted collections are a method available to focus Microsoft 365 content searches on specific mailbox folders or folders in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. In this article, we discuss how to retrieve the folder identifiers needed for a content query using the Recoverable Items folders as an example. Targeted collections are a great way to run ultra-precise content searches when you're looking for the proverbial pea in a haystack of mailboxes.
Most articles covering how to bulk delete Azure AD accounts use a CSV file to hold the input set of accounts for removal. That approach works, but there are better ways to do the job if the contents of Azure AD are accurate.
Maintaining accurate Azure AD User Account manager links is important because many Microsoft 365 features like the Organization chart in Teams, the user profile card, and Outlook's Org Explorer depend on the information. This article covers how to use PowerShell to maintain the manager-employee links.
On June 21, Microsoft posted a message center notification and a technical community blog to inform potential customers how to prepare for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Apart from some details about Copilot licensing and the disclosure that Outlook users will need the Monarch client to use Copilot, we didn't learn too much.
With all the fuss about the new EAC, it's good to note features that still aren't available in the online version. Like how to export mailboxes to PST files. I don't normally like doing anything with PSTs, but sometimes you must grit your teeth and use what's available. In this article, we explain how to use a content search to export the contents of a user mailbox to a PST file.
After writing a script to generate statistics for room mailbox usage, some folks pointed out that the Graph APIs returned the names of meeting organizer in event subjects. Why does this happen? It's no fault of the Graph. Instead, it all comes down to calendar processing settings for room mailboxes.
