Practical Protection: Getting Started with Graph Threat Hunting
In this episode of Practical Protection, we dive into the basics of Threat Hunting, tools you can use, and even some DIY hunting advice.
June 17, 2025
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Practical Graph: Working with Calendar Events Using Graph APIs
Calendar events make up user and group calendars. It's possible to create, update, cancel, and remove calendar appointments and meetings, including recurring events, through the Graph API. This article explains how to pass all the properties needed to create and manage events using PowerShell and the Graph APIs.
May 29, 2025
Practical Graph: Use App Management Policies to Control App Credentials
App secrets are used to authenticate registered apps with Entra ID. App secrets (or passwords) are convenient and easy to use, but they're relatively insecure. The default app management policy for the tenant can block app secrets while custom app management policies can allow selective apps to use app secrets for testing or other well-defined purposes. All explained here.
May 5, 2025
Handling Date Values When Moving from EWS to the Graph
Microsoft announced the Retirement of EWS in Exchange Online a while ago. That means any scripts or applications you have written should be reviewed and rewritten to use Microsoft Graph. In this blog, we review an example of moving from EWS to the Graph while handling date values.
November 26, 2024
Practical Purview: Controls to Include in a SharePoint/Teams Provisioning Solution
This episode of Practical Purview showcases some compliance controls that you should consider including in any provisioning solution. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather some key controls to consider.
September 30, 2024
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: Report Meeting Room Statistics with PowerShell
This article explains how to use the Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell to extract meeting data from the calendars of room mailboxes to generate statistics about the usage of the rooms. Only confirmed meetings are included in the data.
December 5, 2022
Manage Exchange Online at Scale
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) Ingo Gegenwarth provides a glimpse into his speaking session at TEC and how to manage ExO at scale with PowerShell.
August 23, 2021
Microsoft Replaces Office Graph Controls with Microsoft Graph Privacy Controls
The Office Graph powers Microsoft 365 applications like Delve. Six years after Delve's introduction, its privacy controls are being replaced by Microsoft Graph tenant settings from May 15, 2021. The changeover is important if your Office 365 tenant includes some people who have excluded themselves from document insights. You should take action to replace the old Office Delve controls with the Microsoft Graph privacy controls.
April 28, 2021
Application access policies in Exchange Online
Vasil Michev explores how you can mitigate threats and scope down permissions using application access policies in Exchange Online
July 4, 2019