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Practical Graph: Apply Retention Labels to Unlabeled SharePoint Files

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

A previous article described a script to find SharePoint Online files that didn't have retention labels. This article picks up the thread and shows how to use the data generated by the previous script to apply retention labels to the unlabeled files using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. Some issues are met along the way, but the script works and does the job, which is all that counts at the end of the day.

• PowerShell

January 27, 2025

Practical Graph: Understanding What Happens When the Connect-MgGraph Cmdlet Runs

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

This article describes what happens when the Connect-MgGraph cmdlet runs in interactive and app-only sessions with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. A session is created and a context is established, and it's possible to use the session context to do real work.

• Microsoft Graph

December 18, 2024

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Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Given the widespread use of guest accounts within Microsoft 365 to allow external sharing of resources, it’s almost inevitable that some unused guest accounts exist in any Microsoft 365 tenant. Identifying unused guest accounts is a good management practice. If the accounts serve no purpose, why keep them? This article explores how to find unused guest accounts. What you do with them later is up to you.

• Entra ID

December 16, 2024

Practical PnP: Managing Site Permissions

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

Permissions are central to SharePoint Online and it’s important to be able to manage site permissions effectively. In this episode of Practical PnP, we deep dive into site permissions, providing practical examples and use cases that you can apply to your environment.

• Blog

December 2, 2024

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Handling Date Values When Moving from EWS to the Graph

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

Microsoft announced the Retirement of EWS in Exchange Online a while ago. That means any scripts or applications you have written should be reviewed and rewritten to use Microsoft Graph. In this blog, we review an example of moving from EWS to the Graph while handling date values.

• Microsoft Graph

November 26, 2024

New SharePoint Setting to Make It Easier to Use the Site Property Bag

• Post author:By Joanne Klein

A relatively low-key but important change for a new tenant-wide setting was recently introduced to allow updating of a site’s property bag without having to enable/disable site scripts. In this blog, we dive into this change and explore two ways the new tenant setting can be updated.

• PowerShell

November 21, 2024

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Practical Graph: Extracting Value from Entra Sign In Logs

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Entra ID sign-in data is a valuable source of information for Microsoft 365 tenant administrators. Although you can browse sign-in data through the Entra admin center, working with the data through PowerShell reveals all sorts of possibilities for analysis to answer questions about who is connecting to your tenant.

• Entra ID

November 13, 2024

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How to Swap Licenses Using Group-Based Licensing

• Post author:By Tim McMichael

Moving Group-Based Licensing to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center can create some challenges. Luckily there is a way to avoid this. In this blog, we explain how to execute Group-Based License swaps with the help of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

• Blog

November 12, 2024

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Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how to use them within in functions and scripts.

• Blog

October 22, 2024

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Practical Compliance: Using Purge Actions to Remove Mailbox Items

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Compliance search purge actions are Microsoft's search and purge tool. Today, a purge action is limited to removing 10 items per mailbox. Microsoft is increasing the limit to 100 as part of its eDiscovery modernization project. This article reviews the state of the art for using PowerShell to purge mailbox items and contemplates how purges might work after modernization finishes.

• PowerShell

October 21, 2024

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Manage Your SharePoint Online Environment with PnP PowerShell

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

In this article, we explain how to get started using PnP PowerShell, and review some practical examples of where the module can immediately add value for tenant administrators.

• PowerShell

October 14, 2024

A New Version of the Room Mailbox Statistics Script

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

The room mailbox statistics script has proven to be a popular script downloaded and used by many to analyze the usage patterns of room mailboxes. Recently, a reader pointed out that the Graph API request to fetch workspaces didn't work. Microsoft has changed the Places resource and the request now needed to run against the beta endpoint. All of which brought me to rewrite the script using the Graph SDK.

• PowerShell

October 1, 2024