Sean McAvinue, Author at Practical 365

Practical Admin: Archiving Options for Sites and Teams in Microsoft 365

Sean McAvinue — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Archival and removal of locations within SharePoint Online and Teams is a helpful addition to remove stale data from immediate access by users, but it can be confusing for tenant admins to understand the available options. In this article, we examine what options exist to archive data and why you would use each option.

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Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Assessment Version 2

Sean McAvinue — Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this blog, Sean Mcavinue reviews an update to his original Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Assessment, which is designed to gather key data to consider during the migration planning process.

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Why You Should Conduct Regular Entra ID Assessments

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

In this article, Sean McAvinue explains what an Azure AD Assessment is and how it can assess and report on your Entra ID configuration, as well as plan the remediation of any discovered issues.

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Use Azure Automation and PowerShell to Create a Daily Microsoft Entra Risk Report

Sean McAvinue — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

In this article, Sean McAvinue explains how to use PowerShell and Azure Automation runbook to create a Daily Microsoft Entra Risk Report.

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Using Power Automate and Azure Automation to Manage the Lifecycle of SharePoint Sites

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

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.

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Five Ways to Enhance Collaboration Between Tenants

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

While most organizations operate a single Microsoft 365 tenant, there are cases where multiple tenants need to work very closely together. In this article, Sean McAvinue explains five ways to make the cross-tenant collaboration experience easier for end users and when to use each.

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Reporting External Domain Capabilities with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:42:16 +0000

Whether your organization sees external collaboration as a risk or a benefit, it’s important to understand exactly what you have configured. Therefore, Sean McAvinue has created a PowerShell Script to control and report External Domains.

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Automating Microsoft Planner Plan Creation with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Creating a Planner plan from a template allows a team working on a project to start working with the plan without creating a new plan from scratch. This is particularly useful when the same basic plan is used on multiple occasions. In this article, Sean Mcavinue shows you how to do this with some PowerShell Automation!

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Keeping Teams Tidy Through Automation

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

With a relatively small amount of effort, the provisioning of Teams in an organization can be automated to cater to the requirements of the business, as well as IT. In this article, Sean McAvinue goes over keep your Teams tidy through some useful tips and PowerShell code.

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Building your Microsoft 365 PowerShell Toolbox

Sean McAvinue — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

PowerShell is an important tool for any Microsoft 365 Admin – particularly in larger environments. In this article, Sean McAvinue outlines some key tools and concepts to help tenant admins build a ‘toolbox’ for PowerShell to make almost any scripting task easier and more robust.

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