Tony Redmond

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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Copilot for Microsoft 365: Datacenter Investments, Customer Spend, and Black Hat Exploits

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Market analysts question if companies like Microsoft will ever generate a return on their AI investment. That hasn't stopped Microsoft spending $19 billion in FY24 Q4, so they must be hopeful. Meanwhile, at Black Hat USA 2024, a presentation exploring some vulnerabilities in Copilot should make all Microsoft 365 tenants with Copilot consider how to secure their organization better.

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Using Azure Email Communication Service to Send Messages

Tony Redmond — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

If you're looking for an email service capable of handling large volumes of email to external recipients, Microsoft will propose Email Communication Services (ECS). Built on top of Exchange Online, ECS shares some characteristics with the High Volume Email (HVE) solution. After testing both, HVE is probably a better solution if you have a Microsoft 365 tenant.

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The New Outlook for Windows Reaches General Availability

Tony Redmond — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The new Outlook for Windows client is generally available, which means that Microsoft supports it for product usage. That's all fine for those who want to use the new client once they understand that a considerable functionality gap still exists between the new Outlook and Outlook classic. Fortunately, Microsoft will support Outlook classic until "at least 2029."

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Exchange Online’s New High Volume Email (HVE) Solution

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Exchange Online High-Volume Email (HVE) solution handles up to 100,000 internal messages and 2,000 external messages daily. It's intended to replace on-premises Exchange servers that organizations keep just to service email submission from devices and applications. In this review of the preview version, we discovered that almost everything works just fine, if you keep within the throttling limits.

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Using Entra ID Classifications with Microsoft 365 Groups

Tony Redmond — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Entra ID classifications don't seem very exciting because they're text-only visual markers for Microsoft 365 groups and teams that don't come with any of the intelligence built into sensitivity labels. However, classifications can do a useful job for Microsoft 365 tenants that don't have the necessary licenses for sensitivity labels or who don't want to implement sensitivity labels.

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Practical Graph: Using GitHub Copilot for Microsoft 365 PowerShell Development

Tony Redmond — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

GitHub Copilot costs $10/month. At that price level, anyone working with PowerShell should try out the AI assistance to see if it helps. But will GitHub Copilot work well with Microsoft 365 PowerShell modules like Exchange Online and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. That's what we tested and report on here.

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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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TEC 2024 PowerShell Script-Off

Tony Redmond — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

TEC 2024 in Dallas (October 1-2) will once again feature the TEC PowerShell Script-Off where coders attempt to come up with the best solutions for challenges set by the judges. The challenges are all Microsoft 365 scenarios (Exchange Online, Entra ID, Teams, and SharePoint Online), so there's nothing unknown about what we'll ask people to code. Come along to TEC 2024 and compete to be the best coder in town!

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