Using PowerShell to Get a Report of Installed Apps
In this blog, James Yip reviews how to use PowerShell to examine details of managed devices and installed apps on endpoints.
March 19, 2024
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Welcome to Practical PowerShell
This blog is the first installment in our new monthly "Practical PowerShell" series, designed to help part-time PowerShell developers freshen up their scripting skills.
February 12, 2024
Practical Graph: Including Costs in a Microsoft 365 Licensing Report
This article describes how to include user license costs in a Microsoft 365 tenant licensing report created with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. The report includes annual costs for all licenses assigned to each user plus an overall licensing summary for the tenant. It even reports how effective the tenant is at assigning licenses!
February 7, 2024
Visual Branding Considerations for Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations
Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations are more than just a data transfer! In this blog, Karin Skapski explores practical steps and scripts to establish cohesive visual branding in a Microsoft 365 tenant, ensuring a seamless transition for both your team and data.
February 5, 2024
How to Report the MFA Status for Entra ID User Accounts
Microsoft doesn't provide a PowerShell cmdlet to return an accurate MFA status for Entra ID user accounts, but by combining data from multiple sources we can write a script to generate a report showing details of user password settings and MFA status.
January 31, 2024
Use Azure Automation and PowerShell to Create a Daily Microsoft Entra Risk Report
In this article, Sean McAvinue explains how to use PowerShell and Azure Automation runbook to create a Daily Microsoft Entra Risk Report.
January 22, 2024
Practical Graph: Report Microsoft 365 Subscriptions and Service Plans
Microsoft 365 subscriptions are what tenants buy to access functionality. The service plans in the subscriptions (product licenses) control what features are available. This article explains how to use PowerShell to generate a report about subscriptions and the service plans in each license.
January 10, 2024
Creating Dynamic Distribution Lists Based on Email Addresses
Exchange Online recipient filters calculate the membership of dynamic distribution groups. The filters support email addresses, but they don't work. Another method is needed to create dynamic distribution lists based on user mailbox email addresses, as we describe in this article and script.
January 8, 2024
Practical Graph: Switch Licenses for Entra ID User Accounts
Sometimes tenants need to switch Microsoft 365 licenses for Entra ID user accounts, usually to upgrade functionality. This is easy to do manually for one or two accounts, but it's a boring exercise when you need to process more, especially when each account might have a different set of disabled service plans in the original license. This article explains how to process account licenses with PowerShell.
January 2, 2024
Using GitHub Copilot to Upgrade PowerShell Scripts to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
In this blog, Andy Scheider deep dives into GitHub Copilot and how it can be used to upgrade PowerShell Scripts to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
December 12, 2023
Mastering Microsoft 365 PowerShell Scripting
A common question at conferences is how to start with Microsoft 365 PowerShell scripting. We all have our own approach. This article lays out a simple three-step method to write scripts to interact with Microsoft 365 objects.
December 11, 2023
Creating an Exchange Online Inbound Email Traffic Report for the Last 90 Days
Exchange Online keeps message trace data online for 10 days. If you want an email traffic report covering longer periods, you need to retrieve historical message data (for up to 90 days) and report that data. That's the easy description. This article explains some of the complexities involved in generating a 90-day email traffic report for a Microsoft 365 tenant.
November 28, 2023