This article describes how to create a report about group-based licensing assignments and any errors that might have occurred. The code uses the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to fetch information about the groups used for licensing assignments, interpret the assignments, find users with assignment errors, and send email to inform administrators about what's been found.
Convincing people to use MFA is one challenge. Convincing them to use a stronger authentication method than SMS is another. This article explains how to use PowerShell to find people still using SMS for MFA and send email to ask them to upgrade their authentication method.
Inactive accounts aren’t glamorous, but they’re a real risk! In this episode of Practical Protection, we dive into the basics of inactive account blocking and share some PowerShell scripts to help automate this process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
