PowerShell Parallel Processing is a mechanism to speed the processing of large quantities of data. In this example, we discuss how to use parallel batches to fetch Entra ID account information using mailbox data to drive information retrieval. Although this is only a demonstration of a technique, it might help those who must process thousands of mailboxes or accounts and would like to do so more quickly.
This article explains how to use PowerShell to create a report listing the files from a OneDrive for Business account. Because so many Microsoft 365 apps store their files in OneDrive (and other apps too), OneDrive can become a form of dumping ground for data. Seeing file information in the report allows account owners to clean up their digital debris.
This article describes how to use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to interact with Teams messaging to create new one-to-one and group chats and post messages to chats and channel conversations.
In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we continue the conversation around another essential part of flow control: Branching.
A reader asked if it is possible to generate room mailbox weekly schedules that can be sent to distribution lists. This article explains how to accomplish the task using PowerShell and Graph API requests. Once you can get at the data, you can do anything!
In this blog, Sean Mcavinue reviews an update to his original Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Assessment, which is designed to gather key data to consider during the migration planning process.
This article describes creating a SharePoint Online files report using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. While keeping digital debris online might have been unimportant in the past, it's something that can wreak havoc in the era of generative AI when tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 are happy to consume obsolete and inaccurate material.
In this edition of Practical PowerShell, Michel De Rooij discusses the code flow constructs available in PowerShell regarding looping and how to use them.
The unified audit log is the source of a lot of information about a Microsoft 365 tenant. The Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet is available to search the audit log and now we have the AuditLog Graph API. This article explains how to use the new API to query and retrieve audit records from the log.
Anyone who learned PowerShell to manage Exchange has probably written a script to report Exchange mailbox statistics, which means that many scripts have been written since 2006. This article describes a new take on the topic that produces a nice HTML report and two lists that can be used for other reporting.
In our second edition of Practical PowerShell, Michel De Rooij dives into Functions and Parameters, what they are, and how to use them properly.
In the past, we've described how to use PowerShell to report tasks in Planner plans. This article completes the circle by discussing how to create Planner tasks. The scenario used is synchronizing Microsoft 365 message center notifications to create tasks in a target plan. There are some interesting issues to discuss, like how to assign a label to a task.
