Tag: Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

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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

Microsoft Sets March 2024 Date for Retirement of Old Azure AD PowerShell Modules

After much humming and hawing, Microsoft reset the retirement date for several old Azure AD modules to March 30, 2024. The nine-month extension is there to help customers convert scripts to use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK or Graph API requests. On the upside, the extra time is good as it creates space to migrate scripts. On the downside, there's still some challenges in converting from the old Azure AD modules.

June 16, 2023

The Many Ways to Send Email via the Microsoft Graph

For those wanting to eliminate the SMTP AUTH protocol, Microsoft has three ways to send email using Graph APIs. This article looks at how to use the Send-MgUserMail cmdlet and compares it to the Send-MgUserMessage cmdlet (covered in depth in a previous article). Our conclusion is that you'll probably end up using Send0-MgUserMail because it's easier to use.

November 1, 2022

Introduction to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

A Unified Approach to Microsoft 365 management The Microsoft Graph API has been around for some time now and Microsoft is moving more management functions (such as License Management for Azure AD Accounts) to the platform. When Microsoft transitions a function to the Graph, organizations might have to update PowerShell scripts. Getting started with the […]

September 28, 2022

Microsoft Extends Retirement Date for Azure AD and MSOL License Assignment Cmdlets

Microsoft has extended the deprecation date for the Azure AD license management cmdlets to March 31, 2023. After that time, the cmdlets won't work. The strong recommendation is to replace all the old Azure AD and MSOL license management cmdlets in scripts with Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets or Graph API requests. You have an extra 7 months to do the job, do there's no excuse!

August 1, 2022