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Practical PowerShell: Restore an Entra ID Deleted User Account and Update Its User Principal Name

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

The need to restore deleted user accounts sometimes arises. The process is well understood and options are available to do the job in the Entra and Microsoft 365 admin centers. But if you need to restore a deleted user account and change its user principal name, that operation can only be done with PowerShell. This article explores why updating a user principal name during a restore might be necessary and the code to restore accounts.

• Entra ID

March 4, 2025

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Practical Graph: Creating SharePoint News Items from an RSS Feed

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

This article explains how to use the SharePoint Pages API to create new site pages with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK after reading information from an RSS feed. Parsing the RSS feed to find article details is just one of the challenges encountered and solved to accomplish the goal.

• SharePoint Online

February 26, 2025

Practical PnP: Automating Teams Creation using Templates

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

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.

• Blog

February 25, 2025

Practical PowerShell: Parameter Input Validation

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

In previous Practical PowerShell articles, Michel discussed using parameters in advanced functions and utilizing dynamic parameters. In this article, we will dive in a bit deeper on a topic we touched on lightly in those articles, which is ways to validate parameter input.

• PowerShell

February 18, 2025

Practical Protection: Logging – What the Feds Say You’re Doing Wrong

• Post author:By Paul Robichaux

In this episode of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux dives into CISA's Microsoft Expanded Cloud Logs Implementation Playbook, its prerequisites, and applying this advice into your organization.

• Exchange Online

February 5, 2025

Identifying Privileged Applications and Their Secret Passwords

• Post author:By Brandon Colley

Securing applications in an Entra tenant is crucial, especially after recent attacks like Midnight Blizzard. This article reviews how to use PowerShell to help identify privileged applications, their permissions, as well as client Secrets.

• Entra ID

January 30, 2025

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