License assignment to Entra ID accounts with PowerShell is easy if licenses are available and the account doesn't already have the license. In this article, we explore how to check license availability and make sure that we don't try to assign a license that's already present.
You might think that maintaining scripts and processes utilizing PowerShell is a lot of work. And truth be told, it can be. In this blog, Michel De Rooij dives into some practical tips to stay on top of your scripts.
It's that time of the year again! Microsoft is releasing their annual Microsoft Digital Defense Report (MDDR), and you may want to give it a read. In this blog, we talk about the highlights from the MDDR and offer some advice to better protect your organization.
Group-based licensing is a simple way to automate the distribution of licenses to members of security groups. In this article, we review how the mechanism works and show how to automate operations with PowerShell. Finally, we update the tenant licensing report to include group-based licensing and to highlight duplicate license assignments.
A previous article explains how to delete Teams chats using an interactive Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK session. This article builds on that information and explains how to use an Azure Automation runbook to find and remove specified chat threads by scanning all user accounts. The results of the scan and any removed chat threads are emailed to a nominated address at the end of processing.
A beta version of a Graph API to delete Teams chat threads allows administrators to remove unwanted chats. This article reviews how the API requests work to delete, list, and undo deleted chat threads using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The first step is to find chats to remove, so we wrote a script to report all the chat threads for the signed-in user.
A reader asked how to use a CSV file for bulk license assignment with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. We didn't have one to hand, so we wrote a new script to illustrate the principles of how to process license assignments for a set of user accounts (which don't necessarily have to come from a CSV file). We even included some error handling!
This week we are joined on the show by Microsoft MVP and Practical 365 Editor, Tony Redmond. On this episode, Steve Picks Tony's brain on Copilot, On-premises, and his upcoming TEC session.