Practical PowerShell: Error Handling
When coding in PowerShell, you should anticipate issues. How you deal with these issues is another story. In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into Error Handling.
July 3, 2024
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Practical Graph: Microsoft Launches Entra PowerShell Module
On June 27, 2024, Microsoft launched the preview of the Entra PowerShell module. Built on top of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, the new module helps organizations that still have PowerShell scripts based on the now-deprecated AzureAD and AzureADPreview modules. If you're in that situation, the Entra module might help. But I recommend using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK instead.
July 1, 2024
TEC 2024 PowerShell Script-Off
TEC 2024 in Dallas (October 1-2) will once again feature the TEC PowerShell Script-Off where coders attempt to come up with the best solutions for challenges set by the judges. The challenges are all Microsoft 365 scenarios (Exchange Online, Entra ID, Teams, and SharePoint Online), so there's nothing unknown about what we'll ask people to code. Come along to TEC 2024 and compete to be the best coder in town!
June 28, 2024
Practical Graph: Report Details of Teams Online Meetings
The arrival of new Teams audit events allows tenants to analyze data about Teams online meetings. However, the data available in the audit events is incomplete, and the only way to get a full picture is through the Graph APIs. This article explains how to find Teams Online meetings in user calendars, extract information about the meetings, and generate an HTML report.
June 26, 2024
Practical Graph: Find Ownerless and Memberless Groups with Graph APIs
Over time, it's likely that some of the groups in a Microsoft 365 tenant will fall into either the category of memberless groups or ownerless groups. Microsoft has a solution to manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups, but not the other group types supports by the Graph. This article explains how to find and report memberless groups using the Get-MgGroup cmdlet.
June 19, 2024
Experimenting with PowerShell Batching and Parallel Execution
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.
June 12, 2024
Practical Graph: Create a Files Report for a OneDrive for Business Account
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.
June 3, 2024
Practical Graph: Working with Teams Messaging
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.
May 29, 2024
Practical PowerShell: Branching
In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we continue the conversation around another essential part of flow control: Branching.
May 28, 2024
Practical Graph: Reporting Room Mailbox Weekly Schedules
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!
May 13, 2024
Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Assessment Version 2
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.
May 9, 2024
Practical Graph: Report SharePoint Online Files in a Document Library
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.
May 6, 2024
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