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
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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
Using Power Automate and Azure Automation to Manage the Lifecycle of SharePoint Sites
A key aspect of a well-managed Microsoft 365 environment is to ensure that SharePoint sites are removed when they are no longer needed. In this blog, Sean McAvinue explores how to combine relatively basic PowerShell and Azure Automation skills with Power Automate to create a clean, robust way to manage the lifecycle of SharePoint sites in your Microsoft 365 tenant.
November 14, 2023
Practical Graph: Working with Entra ID Directory Extensions
Directory extensions allow organizations to customize the data stored for Entra ID objects such as users, groups, and devices, You need to create and manage directory extensions with PowerShell. This article explains how to do the job with cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
November 13, 2023
Understanding Exchange Shared Mailbox Permissions
Shared mailboxes are widely used in Exchange and their permissions are relatively simple to set and manage. In this blog, Jaap Wesselius deep dives into understanding Exchange shared mailbox permissions and walks you through how to grant permissions in different Exchange environments.
November 8, 2023
Building a Teams External Access Allow List from External Chats
A Teams external access whitelist controls the domains that users can connect to for federated chats. Organizations often limit federation using a whitelist to reduce the possibility of attacks through chat communications. This article explains how administrators can discover the set of domains users chat with by analyzing chat information using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
November 7, 2023
Practical Graph: Check Licenses Before Assignment to Entra ID Accounts
License assignment to Entra ID accounts with PowerShell is easy if licenses are available and the account doesn't already have the license. In this article, we explore how to check license availability and make sure that we don't try to assign a license that's already present.
October 23, 2023
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