Tag: PowerShell

Practical Entra ID: Find Unused Guest Accounts with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Given the widespread use of guest accounts within Microsoft 365 to allow external sharing of resources, it’s almost inevitable that some unused guest accounts exist in any Microsoft 365 tenant. Identifying unused guest accounts is a good management practice. If the accounts serve no purpose, why keep them? This article explores how to find unused guest accounts. What you do with them later is up to you.

• Entra ID

December 16, 2024

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Handling Date Values When Moving from EWS to the Graph

• Post author:By Ingo Gegenwarth

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.

• Microsoft Graph

November 26, 2024

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Practical PowerShell: The Dark Power of Dynamic Parameters

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we dive into the dark power of dynamic parameters, and how to use them within in functions and scripts.

• Blog

October 22, 2024

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Practical Purview: Controls to Include in a SharePoint/Teams Provisioning Solution

• Post author:By Joanne Klein

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.

• Microsoft Purview

September 30, 2024

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Checklist for Terminating Employees with Microsoft 365 Accounts

• Post author:By James Yip

Terminating employees is never fun, but it does happen. And when it happens, you need to know the necessary steps for removing their access. This blog serves as a checklist for removing employees with Microsoft 365 Accounts,

• Active Directory

September 9, 2024

TEC Special: Microsoft 365’s Darkest Corners & PowerShell Scripting with Tony Redmond & Michel de Rooij – The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E26

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

This week on the Podcast we are joined by Paul Robichaux - as a guest alongside MVPs Tony Redmond and Michel de Rooij to discuss The Experts Conference (TEC) 2024 in Dallas, Texas!

• Podcasts

September 4, 2024

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Practical PowerShell: Output and Logging

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

In this installment of the Practical PowerShell series, we discuss some of the most common options for output and adding custom logging to your script.

• PowerShell

September 3, 2024

TEC 2024 PowerShell & Conditional Access Workshops

• Post author:By Jacob Stokes

Don't miss your chance to meet and learn from your favorite Practical 365 Authors at TEC 2024. As a proud sponsor of TEC, we are offering BOGO discounts on exclusive pre-con workshops with authors Michel De Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, and more!

• Microsoft 365

July 26, 2024

Practical Teams: Secure Meetings with Teams Premium

• Post author:By Adam Deltinger

Securing Teams meetings with Teams Premium offers organizations multiple options to protect sensitive information. In this blog, we review those options and share some tips along the way.

• Blog

July 24, 2024

Practical PowerShell: Error Handling

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

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.

• PowerShell

July 3, 2024

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Practical PowerShell: Branching

• Post author:By Michel De Rooij

In this episode of Practical PowerShell, we continue the conversation around another essential part of flow control: Branching.

• PowerShell

May 28, 2024

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Practical Graph: Reporting Room Mailbox Weekly Schedules

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

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!

• Exchange Online

May 13, 2024