Category Archives: PowerShell

Reporting on Manager and/or DirectReports in Office 365

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Vasil Michev

Getting a list of all the direct reports for a given user, or similarly building the manager’s chain seems to be a common question lately, so I figured I’d write a short article on this. There are few different ways … Continue reading →

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Exploring Azure AD users and Security groups via the SCC PowerShell cmdlets

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Vasil Michev

I’ve blogged previously about the fact that “plain” Azure AD Security groups are synced to EXODS and can in fact be used to assign permissions or added as members of Exchange groups. Similar observations were then made about “non-recipient” Azure … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online module now supports PowerShell 7/Core

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Vasil Michev

Yesterday, Microsoft officially released the 2.0.4 version of the Exchange Online V2 PowerShell module. The biggest improvement this version brings is support for running the module on PowerShell 7+ instances, as announced back at Ignite. In other words, we now … Continue reading →

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Common issues when sending mail via PowerShell in Office 365

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Vasil Michev

Lately I seem to run into such questions quite often, so I figured I’d put a short article outlining the most common issues one might run into when using PowerShell to send email messages via SMTP AUTH in Office 365. … Continue reading →

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Even quicker way to list Mailbox permissions in Office 365

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Vasil Michev

While I was looking into some details for preparing my next Practical 365 article, I spotted a change in the way Exchange Online PowerShell returned mailbox permissions. Whereas previously we got a long list of “system” permissions, now only the … Continue reading →

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