The new Purview eDiscovery implementation supports a Graph API. Where there's a Graph API, there are PowerShell cmdlets based on the API. This article explains how to use PowerShell to automate different aspects of eDiscovery cases. PowerShell can't review the items found by searches, but it can handle most of the other processing.
In the first installment of Securing Microsoft 365 with Graph Activity Logs, Mezba Uddin dives into the essentials of the Microsoft Graph Activity Log, what it does, its importance for visibility, and how to get it running to start seeing it's data.
PowerShell scripting becomes far more powerful when you master collections like arrays and hash tables. In this article, we review the basics of standard collection types. Then, walk through additional useful options that leverage other object types available through the .NET Framework.
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.
Any time you allow a third-party application to run in a system you own or control, you’re assuming risk. In this episode of Practical Protection, we discuss how to reduce that risk by managing app consent in Microsoft Entra ID, as well as a few other alternatives.
In this article, Mezba Uddin reviews using Audit Logs and the Graph API to perform six specific investigation actions in Exchange Online to help keep your email environment safe.
In this article, James Yip discusses different ways to leverage Intune to run PowerShell scripts as part of endpoint management, specifically for Windows workstations, to perform custom administrative tasks.
In the first installment of this new series on Entra ID Access Control, we explore the fundamentals of granting permissions to Entra ID user accounts and applications for task automation.
Inactive accounts aren’t glamorous, but they’re a real risk! In this episode of Practical Protection, we dive into the basics of inactive account blocking and share some PowerShell scripts to help automate this process.
In previous Practical PowerShell articles, Michel discussed using parameters in advanced functions and utilizing dynamic parameters. In this article, we will dive in a bit deeper on a topic we touched on lightly in those articles, which is ways to validate parameter input.
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.
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.
