Blog posts, news and opinions about Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services and applications.
This article explains how to scope groups administration using apps and restricted administration units to make sure that only certain administrators can manage certain groups programmatically. Although this is probably not something that is needed for some tenants, it's a technique that could be used in many situations.
Microsoft recently announced a breaking change for all Android-based Teams devices. Teams Administrators must prepare some required policies in Microsoft Intune and also check and validate Conditional Access policies. If the changes aren’t made, Teams Android devices cannot log in after the automatic update installation.
In this article, James Yip discusses different ways to leverage Intune to run PowerShell scripts as part of endpoint management, specifically for Windows workstations, to perform custom administrative tasks.
AI is supposed to make our lives easier, so how about writing some PowerShell to block out timeslots in a travek calendar when the calendar's owner is on the move? Eventually AI gets the task done, but it needed some coaching and firm instruction along the way.
Some people say that the Teams usage report (available in the Microsoft 365 admin center) is a great way of finding inactive teams. I consider that viewpoint to be rubbish because the Teams usage report doesn't include all the kinds of activities that a team might host. This article explains how to use audit data to supplement the usage report and create a better view of inactive teams.
In this Installment of Practical Teams Phone, Thorsten Pickhan dives into Shared Line Appearance, how to set it up, controlling delegate calling with PowerShell, and more!
In this Practical Graph article, we describe how to create SharePoint files using an Azure Automation runbook. The code uses the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK whenever possible, but we had to resort to Graph API requests at times. We also look at how to update document metadata for the newly uploaded files.
Inactive accounts aren’t glamorous, but they’re a real risk! In this episode of Practical Protection, we dive into the basics of inactive account blocking and share some PowerShell scripts to help automate this process.
In this installment of Practical PnP, Sean McAvinue dives into how PnP PowerShell can help to improve automated Teams provisioning using templates and preset structures.
Most Microsoft 365 tenants have a collection of Entra ID apps to manage. One task might be to control access to Entra ID apps, so the question is how best to do this. Assignments for users and groups control the ability to use apps while custom app roles are there for developers to determine what a user can done when they run an app.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to setup secure connections between clients and servers. In this blog, we review TLS 1.3, its changes and advantages, and compare it to its predecessor, TLS 1.2.
Join Steve Goodman and Rich Dean for Rich's final episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, where they reflect on memorable guests and insights from past episodes. Plus, meet new co-host Bastiaan Verdonk, a cybersecurity expert with over 28 years of industry experience, as they discuss AI developments and the future of technology.
