Author: Tony Redmond

Latest Articles

Translating SharePoint Online Documents

SharePoint Translation is a SharePoint Premium service that can translate the content of Office documents and PDF files to the languages supported by the Microsoft Translator service. Be careful about the costs, which can be heavy if you process large documents.

April 9, 2024

Practical Graph: Creating and Updating Planner Tasks

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.

March 19, 2024

Practical Graph: Clean Out Messages from a Team Channel

A question asked about the best way to remove channel messages from Teams. Microsoft 365 retention policies are an option, but you'll have to wait for retention processing to complete. PowerShell helps because you can create a script to remove all messages and replies from a channel. Everything works, but processing is slow, as we discover when we plunge into the details of writing code.

March 6, 2024

Managing the Discoverability of Private Teams

Microsoft has a new approach to control private team discoverability. You can have all-in access by enabling discoverability through Teams policies or granular access by using sensitivity labels to control if private teams are discoverable or not. This article explains how both methods work.

March 4, 2024

Stopping Spam Sent from Bad Microsoft 365 Domains

Anecdotal evidence is that some spam originates from onmicrosoft.com domains. These are the domains used by Microsoft 365 tenants and the spam indicates that attackers sign up for 'disposable' tenants to send their malware. This article describes what onmicrosoft.com domains are and how to use a mail flow rule to control their traffic.

February 26, 2024