Here’s to another year of practical advice on all things Microsoft! Practical 365 is wrapping up the year with a whopping 200+ articles, focusing on topics such as PowerShell, Exchange, Azure AD, Teams, and much more. This article shares 9 must-read posts, recommended by Steve Goodman, Tony Redmond, and Paul Robichaux.
This article explains how to use the Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell to extract meeting data from the calendars of room mailboxes to generate statistics about the usage of the rooms. Only confirmed meetings are included in the data.
Azure AD and Exchange Online store information about user principal names and email addresses, but they don't store the domain name of an account. In this article, we explain how to use a custom attribute to store the domain name and then use that with an adaptive scope in a Microsoft 365 retention policy.
For those wanting to eliminate the SMTP AUTH protocol, Microsoft has three ways to send email using Graph APIs. This article looks at how to use the Send-MgUserMail cmdlet and compares it to the Send-MgUserMessage cmdlet (covered in depth in a previous article). Our conclusion is that you'll probably end up using Send0-MgUserMail because it's easier to use.
In this article, Damian Scoles reviews 10 PowerShell tips to help Microsoft 365 administrators automate daily management tasks. Be on the lookout for the second part to this mini series!
A Unified Approach to Microsoft 365 management The Microsoft Graph API has been around for some time now and Microsoft is moving more management functions (such as License Management for Azure AD Accounts) to the platform. When Microsoft transitions a function to the Graph, organizations might have to update PowerShell scripts. Getting started with the […]
Microsoft 365 tenants usually include many Entra iD apps. These apps hold permissions, including permissions that hackers like to exploit. This article explains how to use PowerShell to detect apps with high-priority permissions and report them to administrators for review.
This article covers how to use an Azure managed identity with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and Microsoft Teams modules in an automation runbook.