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How to Create Org-Wide Teams in Microsoft Teams
Creating Org-wide Team to Communicate with Everyone in Small Organizations In the latest update distributed to Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft includes the ability to create org-wide teams, but only...
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Block Guest Members for Individual Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams
Block Guest Access to Teams with Group Settings Updated 10-Oct-2023 By default, Microsoft 365 tenants can add guest users (people with accounts outside your tenant) to the membership of Microsoft 365...
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The 1-2-3 of Exchange Online Certificate Based Authentication for PowerShell
Exchange Online CBA One Way to Replace Basic Authentication Updated 1-Nov-2023 The writing team for the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook very much appreciate the work done by our redoubtable technical...
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How to Review and Clean Up Entra ID Enterprise Apps
Remove Old, Obsolete, or Unwanted Enterprise Apps Vasil Michev’s article about creating a Graph-based PowerShell script to generate an inventory of Entra ID integrated apps and their permissions...
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How to Create an Entra ID B2B Collaboration Policy
Deny Guests from Some Domains or Use an Allow List Updated: 5 September 2023 The ability for applications to use Entra ID B2B collaboration to add guest users is governed by external collaboration...
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Understanding What’s in an Entra ID Access Token
Critical Piece When Connecting to the Microsoft Graph By now, most people who write PowerShell code to interact with Microsoft 365 workloads understand that sometimes it’s necessary to use Microsoft...
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Basic Group Management with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
Create Entra ID Groups with SDK Cmdlets Updated 28 December 2023 Last week, I discussed how to perform basic Entra ID user account management operations using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph...
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Outlook Org Explorer Gives More Reasons to Pay Attention to User Data
Org Explorer Brings Data from Multiple Microsoft 365 Sources Updated 28 February 2023 About 18 months ago, I wrote about the importance of maintaining user account attributes in Entra ID. At the time,...
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Updating Extension Attributes for Entra ID Registered Devices with the...
Registered Devices and Entra ID (Azure AD) Updated 8 September 2023 According to Microsoft, the goal for Entra ID registered devices (workplace joined devices) is “to provide your users with support...
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How to Purge Guest Accounts with Unredeemed Invitations from Entra ID
Use PowerShell to Find and Remove Entra ID Guest Accounts Who Don’t Want to Join Your Party Updated 5 September 2023 A January 30 post by Microsoft’s Jef Kazimer about using Azure Automation with...
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Managing Assigned Licenses for Deleted User Accounts
Why Some Deleted User Accounts Store License Assignment Information And Some Do Not A reader asks why the Microsoft 365 admin center displays a license for a deleted user account (Figure 1). The...
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Entra ID Audit Captures Some But Not All Updates of User Account Properties
Audit User Account Changes – But Not For All Properties In a Twitter (X) discussion about Microsoft Entra ID logging, one of the participants commented that “On the small end, just being able to see...
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Updating Entra ID Risky Users with PowerShell
Entra ID Identity Protection Monitors Sign-Ins to Find Problem Accounts Entra ID Identity Protection is a solution that uses machine learning to monitor and detect problematic sign-in activity for a...
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Entra ID Guest Accounts Can Now Have Sponsors
Defining Guest Account Sponsors with GUI and PowerShell In July 2023, Microsoft added a new preview feature to allow organizations to assign ‘sponsors’ for Entra ID guest accounts. The idea is that an...
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Monitor and Report Additions to Teams Membership
Use PowerShell and the Audit Log to Find Targeted Accounts in Teams Memberships A request came into the Office 365 Technical Discussions Facebook group for a way to monitor member additions to teams....
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EntraExporter Tool Exports Details of an Entra ID Tenant
I’m always on the lookout for tools that might help tenant administrators understand more about the technology they manage. The EntraExporter tool is an example of the kind of utility that I consider...
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Microsoft Updates Entra ID Cross-Tenant Access Management
Improvements to Cross-Tenant Access Settings Based on Customer Feedback Microsoft launched Azure AD (Entra ID) cross-tenant access settings in February 2022 to support the introduction of Teams shared...
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Managing the Entra ID Registration Campaign for Stronger Authentication
Registration Campaigns Push for Stronger Authentication Methods A year ago, Microsoft VP for Identity Security Alex Weinert spoke at the TEC 2022 conference and was critical about the slow adoption of...
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How to Create Dynamic Administrative Units with PowerShell
Creating a Dynamic Administrative Unit Per Department I wrote about using dynamic Entra ID administrative units earlier this year. Not much has changed since then as the feature remains in preview,...
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How to Create Dynamic Microsoft 365 Groups (and Teams) for Departments
Create Dynamic Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams with PowerShell No sooner had I published the article about creating dynamic administrative units with PowerShell, the first email arrived asking if the...
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