Category: Office 365

Cat Links Entra ID, Graph API, Microsoft 365, Office 365

Reporting on group membership for Entra ID devices (including assigned licenses)

Posted on Vasil Michev

In this article we explore the methods available to report on group membership for device objects within Entra ID. One of the scenarios where this is important is for device-based licensing for Microsoft 365 Enterprise apps. As neither the Entra ID portal nor Microsoft 365 Admin Center do a good job at that, we instead leverage the Graph API and Graph SDK for PowerShell, and provide sample scripts for both. …

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Cat Links SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365, Office 365

Reporting on unlicensed OneDrive (for Business) accounts in Microsoft 365

Posted on Vasil Michev

Last year, Microsoft announced plans to start charging tenants for data stored in unlicensed OneDrives, that is drives that belong to unlicensed Microsoft 365 users. Unlike Exchange Online, where inactive mailboxes provide you with essentially free retention for the duration of any hold/policies assigned to the user, the functionality to …

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Cat Links Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, Office 365

Microsoft (unintentionally?) exposes inactive mailboxes content via the EWS API

Posted on Vasil Michev

In what seems like an “accidental feature release”, we can now leverage the EWS API methods to directly access content stored within inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online. I’d wager this to be a bug, but until we get some sort of official confirmation from Microsoft, all bets are off. Either way, I believe it is important for Microsoft 365 customers to known about this change in behavior, hence this short article. …

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Cat Links Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, Office 365, PowerShell

Create report schedules for Microsoft 365 reports via PowerShell

Posted on Vasil Michev

While the functionality to create report schedules for (handful of the) Microsoft 365 hasn’t received any love for years now, I want to remind you that it still exists. In this article, we will take a deeper look at the PowerShell cmdlets used to manage report schedules, as well as refresh your memory on some of the basics. And who knows, Microsoft might eventually remember this functionality exists and add support for more reports 🙂 …

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