What happened at TEC & MEC? Paul gives us the low-down First up this week, Paul and I chat about TEC – and how valuable it was to attend for him; and we contrast that to Microsoft conferences like Ignite. Paul talks about how TEC provides deep, real-world expertise and having expanded from technologies like […]
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 […]
Control Your Configuration as Migrations Unfold It can be quite a challenge to maintain workload configurations in a Microsoft 365 tenant. Small to medium size organizations might have administrators responsible for the management of the entire tenant. Large enterprise organizations might assign different people to manage different workloads. All share a common responsibility of keeping […]
The Teams external access configuration includes an allow list that defines which Microsoft 365 tenants are allowed to collaborate with your users through chats and meetings. To make sure that your allow list is complete, we can check the guest accounts present in the tenant and update the configuration with the domains used by guests. All in a matter of some straightforward PowerShell code.
On August 26, Microsoft announced that they will retire Kaizala in August 2023. The Kaizala retirement is not big news because it's been coming for a while. If you want to get ahead of the game, you can remove the Kaizala service plans from the Office 365 licenses assigned to user accounts. We explain how to do the job in an example PowerShell script.
Until the arrival of V3.0 of the Exchange Online management module, Microsoft didn't support using an Azure Automation managed identity with Exchange Online PowerShell. In this article we explore how to use Exchange Online PowerShell with Azure Automation to get work done.
This article covers how to use an Azure managed identity with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and Microsoft Teams modules in an automation runbook.
This article discusses the addition of a Group Membership report and a Mailbox Permission report to a PowerShell script aimed at helping to prepare a Tenant-to-Tenant Migration.
This article explains how to write a PowerShell script using Graph APIs to find and remove messages from Exchange Online mailboxes.
In this article, we consider the best way to use PowerShell to find the set of Microsoft 365 Groups with guest members. And once we find those groups, we can check if they have a suitable sensitivity label.
On the surface, it seems easy to run the Remove-Mailbox cmdlet to permanently remove an Exchange Online mailbox. But when you need to remove inactive mailboxes, things are more complex.
Microsoft 365 PowerShell is not a single entity. Rather, it spans a mixture of workload-specific modules and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. When the time comes to write a new script, what should a developer choose to use?
