PowerShell is an essential tool for IT admins, and it...

Mar 3, 2022|Michael Reinders

In this guide, we’re going to detail the top ten...

Feb 17, 2022|Michael Reinders

If you do not want to receive the Cortana Daily Briefing email for yourself, your tenant, or a group of users - this is how you turn that off.

Mar 8, 2021|Brad Sams

Working with strings in PowerShell is core to many different operations. With strings come the many different encodings that can be used. Learning to manipulate, understand, and use those encodings can make working with documents of different languages and types much easier to do.

Feb 23, 2021|Adam Bertram

The Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets are exceptionally useful tools to both export data for consumption to other applications and to retrieve and import information from third-party data sources.

Nov 17, 2020|Adam Bertram

Outlook Prepares for the Coming of iOS14 Apple’s much-awaited release...

Sep 10, 2020|Tony Redmond

File Servers – We all have them in one form...

May 26, 2020|Adam Bertram

Microsoft has made a preview PowerShell module for the Graph available for developers to play with. Being able to use PowerShell with the Graph exposes a lot of data to play with, so it's a great addition to the administrator toolkit. To see how things worked in practice,, I convert a script to report Teams channels that are email-enabled to use the Graph module. Things worked out pretty well, but as you'd expect, some rough edges exist that need to be smoothed.

Feb 4, 2020|Tony Redmond

Many Office 365 applications now create Azure Active Directory guest accounts. What's the best way to discover if the accounts are active and in use? This PowerShell script uses the Office 365 audit log and message trace data to figure out what guest accounts are active and outputs a CSV file for your review and analysis. Like any other PowerShell script, it can be adapted to suit your purposes.

Dec 23, 2019|Tony Redmond

Cloudy attachments are an excellent way of sharing documents through email without attaching files. Behind the scenes, an anonymous link to the document is sent to recipients, who can then use the link to open, edit, or download the document (depending on the assigned permission). Office 365 tenant administrators don't have great visibility into what kind of anonymous sharing happens, but they can with a little bit of PowerShell and the contents of the Office 365 audit log.

Nov 26, 2019|Tony Redmond