Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Graph

Practical Graph: Working with Exchange Online Mailbox Data

Tony Redmond — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Exchange Online mail folders and messages are a very important resource for Microsoft 365 tenants. This article discusses how to use cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to retrieve information about mailbox folders and mail messages together with some performance tips for dealing with folders that store thousands of messages.

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Practical Graph: Assign Sensitivity Labels to SharePoint Online Files

Tony Redmond — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released Graph APIs to read and assign sensitivity labels in 2023. At the time, it was difficult to work with the assignSensitivityLabel API. Now it's easier, and this article explains how to use PowerShell with the API to assign labels to files in a SharePoint Online document library.

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Practical Graph: Microsoft Launches Entra PowerShell Module

Tony Redmond — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

On June 27, 2024, Microsoft launched the preview of the Entra PowerShell module. Built on top of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, the new module helps organizations that still have PowerShell scripts based on the now-deprecated AzureAD and AzureADPreview modules. If you're in that situation, the Entra module might help. But I recommend using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK instead.

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Practical Graph: Find Ownerless and Memberless Groups with Graph APIs

Tony Redmond — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Over time, it's likely that some of the groups in a Microsoft 365 tenant will fall into either the category of memberless groups or ownerless groups. Microsoft has a solution to manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups, but not the other group types supports by the Graph. This article explains how to find and report memberless groups using the Get-MgGroup cmdlet.

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Experimenting with PowerShell Batching and Parallel Execution

Tony Redmond — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

PowerShell Parallel Processing is a mechanism to speed the processing of large quantities of data. In this example, we discuss how to use parallel batches to fetch Entra ID account information using mailbox data to drive information retrieval. Although this is only a demonstration of a technique, it might help those who must process thousands of mailboxes or accounts and would like to do so more quickly.

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Practical Graph: Using the Microsoft AuditLog Query Graph API (Preview)

Tony Redmond — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The unified audit log is the source of a lot of information about a Microsoft 365 tenant. The Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet is available to search the audit log and now we have the AuditLog Graph API. This article explains how to use the new API to query and retrieve audit records from the log.

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Practical Graph: All About Pagination and Fetching Data

Tony Redmond — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:46:41 +0000

When you're new to Graph API requests, you might not know pagination and end up retrieving less data from queries than is available. In this article, we explain how to use pagination to retrieve data using Graph queries and SDK cmdlets.

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Practical Graph: Creating and Updating Planner Tasks

Tony Redmond — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In the past, we've described how to use PowerShell to report tasks in Planner plans. This article completes the circle by discussing how to create Planner tasks. The scenario used is synchronizing Microsoft 365 message center notifications to create tasks in a target plan. There are some interesting issues to discuss, like how to assign a label to a task.

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Using PowerShell to Get a Report of Installed Apps

James Yip — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In this blog, James Yip reviews how to use PowerShell to examine details of managed devices and installed apps on endpoints.

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Microsoft Takes Steps to Offset Midnight Blizzard Damage

Tony Redmond — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:16:03 +0000

The fallout from the Midnight Blizzard attack against Microsoft continues as Microsoft takes action to harden the security of its own and customer tenants. One step is to retire the EWS Application Impersonation role. This will happen in February 2025 ahead of the retirement of Exchange Web Services in October 2026.

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