Group and Site Support for Labelling Has Improved in Recent Years A few years ago, I wrote about sensitivity labels being extended to protect Microsoft 365 Groups. At the time, there were some basic controls available to protet Microsoft 365 Groups. This feature has quietly gotten better over the years so now is a good …

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Entra is Loosing the License Management Feature Recently Microsoft have announced that as of September 1st 2024 the license management features through the Microsoft Entra ID Admin Center and Azure portals will be removed. Instead, administrators planning to assigned licenses will be forced to use the Microsoft 365 admin center. The documentation has been updated …

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Reusable Code for Logging in Your Scripts Anyone who's been on my site or seen other articles I've written would know that I use PowerShell heavily. PowerShell is one of the most important tools in any administrators arsenal. When it comes to scripting to help automate tasks in your environment, it's unbeliveable powerfull. PowerShell can …

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Remove Notifications From Teams I had an interesting challenge with a customer deployment recently. A retention policy was configured for Teams chat and channel messages - this is all normal and worked fine. The issue occurred with the automatic notifications that are sent by Teams to users mailboxes notifying them about things like missed messages. …

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Teams Voice and Face Recognition A common question I get asked when talking to customers about Copilots Intelligent Recap feature is "How does it work for in-person meetings?". The answer is "it depends". Copilot depends on the meeting transcript and by default, multiple participants in a room get given the names "Spearker 1, Speaker 2 …

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Measuring Value is Important Unless you've been living under a rock, it's no doubt you've heard the term "Copilot" in the last year more times than you can count. True to form, Microsofts branding has ensured that the word Copilot has become synonomous with Microsoft and AI. At the center of all this buzz is …

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During a recently migration project, I had an issue passed to me which required me to create a script to find all Teams channel meetings with specific users calendars. During the migration, Teams meetings were recreated to reflect the destination tenant but due to a limitation of the migration tool, this didn't include Teams channel …

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Removing organizations seems to be missing Quick update on this one, testing in another tenant I found that the delete option is indeed there! The issue I had seems to be as simple as a scroll bar not rendering on my page! Anyway, I'll leave the post here in case it helps anyone! An interesting …

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I recently came across an issue where SharePoint online sub became inaccessible during a tenant-to-tenant migration. There was a site synchronization happening at the time. Whenever I opened one of the sites being migrated, I received an error saying sorry something went wrong. This wasn't a page not found error so I knew it had …

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