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Azure Active Directory Sign-On Gets a New Look
No More Views Over Rio Office 365 notification MC204985 published on February 27 brings the news that Microsoft is updating the default background image displayed when users sign into Azure Active...
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Why Default Mailbox Auditing for Exchange Online Isn’t Quite as Good as It Seems
Exchange Online Mailbox Auditing for All When Microsoft announced in March 2019 that mailbox auditing had been enabled by default for Exchange Online, it seemed to be a good news story. Busy Office...
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Reporting Exchange Online Mailbox Permissions
Make Sure The Right People Access Your Exchange Online Mailboxes One of the recommendations made in the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook is that tenant administrators should conduct periodic reviews of...
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Quick and Easy Office 365 License Assignment Report
Leveraging Get-AzureADSubscribedSku to Find Office 365 E3 Accounts I love receiving suggestions from readers. After posting my note about Microsoft’s epic failure to communicate the real facts about...
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Reporting SharePoint Online Site Storage
Know What Sites Are Active and Using Storage Some time ago, I wrote about a script to report OneDrive for Business storage for users in an Office 365 tenant. As it turns out, the code is...
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Reporting Exchange Online Mailbox and SendAs/On Behalf Of Permissions
One Script to Report all Mailbox-Level Permissions Shortly after publishing Reporting Exchange Online Mailbox Permissions, I received two notes. One was from Vasil Michev to say that I should have...
View ArticleFaster PowerShell ForEach Loops to Process Office 365 Data
In Search of Speed I’m always interested in speeding up scripts. The new Exchange REST cmdlets speed things up by being more efficient at fetching large sets of mailboxes and other objects. The effect...
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Stopping Users Updating OWA Autosignatures
Don’t Mess with Your Corporate Autosignature On February 20, I wrote about the topic of generating corporate auto-signatures for OWA. It is easy to create good-looking autosignatures and store them in...
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Teams Updates Default Meeting Policy to Enforce External Lobby
The Lobby’s the First Stop for External Meeting Participants In Office 365 notification MC209349 published on April 14, Microsoft announced a change to the default meeting policy to enforce lobby...
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Managing Teams Apps
Teams Admin Center Gains Manage Apps Page Without much fanfare, the Teams Admin Center now boasts a new Manage apps page under Teams apps (Figure 1). The new page gives Teams administrators visibility...
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Updated Usage Reports in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Good Basic Reporting Improved Message Center notification MC210158 (April 22) announced the availability of several improvements in the usage reports available in the Microsoft 365 admin center....
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Use the Office 365 Audit Log to Find Who Updated a Document
Interrogating SharePoint and OneDrive Document Version History A recent question asked how to use the SharePoint Online PnP PowerShell module to extract the version history of a document. The PnP...
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Teams Improves Analytics in Desktop and Browser Clients
Note to Self: Read the Release Notes Sometimes it pays to read the release notes for a product. The Teams release notes often hold nuggets of information that don’t show up in an Office 365 Message...
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OneDrive for Business and its Unlimited Storage
OneDrive Storage for All The OneDrive for Business service description (13 May 2020) lays out how much OneDrive storage Microsoft makes available to users based on their license type. In a nutshell:...
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Use Office 365 Audit Data to Highlight Unused Permissions
Understanding Events in Office 365 Audit Log the First Step Generating a report about some aspect of Office 365 is all very well, but it doesn’t lead to much unless there’s some action that can be...
View ArticleOutlook Makes Online Meetings the Norm
Create Teams or Skype for Business Online Meetings by Default Office 365 Notification MC213856 published on May 20 tells us that users will soon be able to configure OWA and Outlook mobile clients so...
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Microsoft Automates Easing of EWS Throttling for Migrations
Automated Lifting of Throttling Restrictions Microsoft recently made an interesting change to the automated support handling capabilities of the Microsoft 365 admin center to handle requests for...
View ArticleTeams is the Most Difficult Office 365 Application to Backup
Contemplating Teams Backup I’m bemused by the solutions people proposed when asked about Teams backup. It’s reasonable to consider backing up any IT service and given the recent growth in Teams usage...
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Reporting Deleted Stream Videos
Stream Doesn’t Support Office 365 Retention Policies Usage of Microsoft Stream is very high at present, largely driven by storage of Teams meeting recordings and Teams Live Events. This is goodness,...
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Updates for Groups Management in Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Changes Slip Through When You’re Not Watching Microsoft recently updated the Microsoft 365 admin center with several useful changes to improve the Groups section of the portal. Most of the changes...
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