Here’s to another year of practical advice on all things Microsoft! Practical 365 is wrapping up the year with a whopping 200+ articles, focusing on topics such as PowerShell, Exchange, Azure AD, Teams, and much more. This article shares 9 must-read posts, recommended by Steve Goodman, Tony Redmond, and Paul Robichaux.
Adaptive retention policies are great, but they require high-end Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licenses. The solution is to build your own version using PowerShell and Azure Automation. The code is reasonably straightforward and is a practical example of how to replicate a Microsoft 365 feature in your own way.
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.
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.
In this article, Damian Scoles reviews 10 PowerShell tips to help Microsoft 365 administrators automate daily management tasks. Be on the lookout for the second part to this mini series!
This article discusses the addition of a Group Membership report and a Mailbox Permission report to a PowerShell script aimed at helping to prepare a Tenant-to-Tenant Migration.
The complexities of Office 365 tenants only increases the complexities of creating an Office 365 migration plan. To generate an initial assessment for a tenant, I created a PowerShell script to report the most important information that influences migration planning.
Microsoft has announced a six month extension for support of the Azure AD Graph API. The new deadline is the end of 2022, which gives Microsoft 365 tenants some extra time to convert PowerShell scripts which use the Azure AD and MSOL modules. The original deadline for retirement of the Azure AD license management cmdlets remains at June 30, 2022.
The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK is a good way to execute Microsoft Graph API queries from PowerShell scripts. In this article, we explain how to use cmdlets from the SDK with a Azure Automation runbook. The example we use is a script to send a welcome email to new employees.
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Azure Automation runbooks can run Exchange Online PowerShell code on sandbox machines. Is this a good way of getting work done? In this article, we examine how to create an Azure automation account, a RunAs account, and some runbooks for PowerShell code to run against Exchange Online and other Microsoft 365 data.
Over time, Microsoft 365 tenants tend to accumulate large numbers of guest accounts in Entra ID. And over time, some of those accounts become obsolete and inactive. In this article, we explore how to use PowerShell to analyze the activity of guest accounts to figure out what accounts are inactive and which are candidates for removal. It's something you should do annually.
The Microsoft 365 ecosystem is a big place and it's hard to keep on top of everything. But to start 2022 off with a bang, here are five areas for tenant administrators to consider when they plan how they'll spend their time in the new year. As always, feel free to disagree and add comments describing what you plan to do in 2022.
