Configure Microsoft Teams Common Area Phones

As more organizations move even deeper into Microsoft Teams by adopting Teams Phone System as a replacement for their traditional PBX systems, there are use cases that need to be accounted for outside of users making and receiving calls within Teams. I’ve detailed the setup of Auto Attendants in a previous post and we can …

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Search and Delete and Emails from Exchange Online with Graph API and PowerShell

As Exchange Online admins, there are various reasons we may want to remove a mail from one of our users mailboxes. We may want to remove a specific Phishing mail, or a sensitive mail that was sent to the wrong person. To do this, we can create a new content search and delete the results, …

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Enable the Conditional Access Insights and Reporting Workbook

Conditional Access is a vital component of any Azure AD / Microsoft 365 tenancy. It is an extremely flexible and effective tool to help shape and enforce authentication criteria such as MFA and device compliance. While creating Conditional Access Policies can be very straightforward, as they grow, they can become quite complex and it can …

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Coming Soon – Retention Policies for PST files in OneDrive and SharePoint Online

My advice to customers who want to use PST files in their environment is pretty simple - don't. Aside from the fact that PST files have no built in governance or information protection features (except setting a password), any organization using Exchange Online should have more than enough storage available between primary and archive mailboxes …

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Quick and Easy Mailbox Size and License Report

When reporting on mailboxes in Exchange Online, we don't get a view of the license assignment. This can be valuable information where organizations are running a mixture of Exchange Online SKUs with different mailbox allowances and Archive support. I've put together a very quick and easy script to report on mailbox sizes and assigned licenses …

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Right to Disconnect: How to Block Teams Messages After Business Hours

I recently wrote an article about how we can add a disclaimer to email messages outside of business hours to promote a healthy work / life balance. I then received a question asking if we can achieve something similar for Teams messages. While we can't add a disclaimer, we can leverage Microsoft Cloud App Security …

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Updated: Conditional Access Documentation Script Now Supports Translation to Friendly Names

A while ago I uploaded a quick script to document Conditional Access Policies out to JSON files. This has been really useful for me to export out policies but one issue I had with it was that the users and applications were represented as Object IDs and this wasn't very user friendly when passing on …

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Azure AD Conditional Access Continuous Access Evaluation Becoming Default

Conditional Access is one of the most powerful tools you can use to protect your Office 365 / Azure AD tenant. From enforcing device compliance to requiring MFA from untrusted locations, the flexibility it offers provides administrators with an extremely flexible and effective identity and access management solution. While Conditional Access has been around a …

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7 Tips for Working with the Graph API in PowerShell

The Graph API is an amazingly powerful tool for both developers and admins to achieve some really cool things in Microsoft 365. There are multiple ways to leverage it using multiple languages but for somebody coming from an infrastructure background, that wants to manage, report or automate tasks in Microsoft 365, PowerShell makes the most …

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