9 Jul 2019 by Vasil Michev
Over the past few years, the number of Azure AD administrative roles has nearly doubled as new roles have been added to support workloads such as Microsoft Teams, Flow and PowerApps, Kaizala, etc. Another group of roles has been made available to address scenarios where certain functionality required the highly privileged Global Administrator role. Removing […]
6 Jul 2018 by Paul Robichaux
Since Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams in fall 2017, they have rightly bragged about its quick adoption—more than 140,000 customers have deployed Teams in some form or another, and the Teams product group has done quite a good job of executing on their planned roadmap and delivering features as promised. We use it extensively at Quadrotech […]
24 Apr 2018 by Vasil Michev
After publishing our article and script on getting the mailbox folder permissions inventory, a few folks have asked whether it’s possible to have a script that sets the permissions instead of just reporting on them. This is also commonly requested by organizations that use folder-level permissions instead of full access for sharing mailbox data, for […]
30 Jan 2018 by Vasil Michev
As a preparation for the upcoming “Optimizing PowerShell for large Office 365 tenants” webinar, we have created a sample script to generate an inventory of all mobile devices in a company. In addition, the report will also include some device statistics as well as information about the mailbox. Like all the recent scripts we have […]
5 Dec 2017 by Vasil Michev
A recent post on the Microsoft Tech Community reminded me about a topic I wanted to discuss for a while now – Outlook mobile app licensing requirements, and how to make sure you are not violating them. Contrary to what the Microsoft marketing folks will have you believe, the app is not free for commercial […]
16 Nov 2017 by Vasil Michev
One of the most common reporting questions we see is: “How can I get a report of all Group owners?”, so in this post we’ll discuss the methods available to gather this data, and provide a custom PowerShell script that you can use to generate a sample report. To begin with, we should identify what […]
17 Aug 2017 by Vasil Michev
An inventory of Office 365 aliases is one of the most commonly requested Office 365/Exchange Online reports. The script in this post generates a list of all addresses (aliases) in the company. A quick search will return plenty of similar scripts for this report, but the one we’ve demonstrated here is a fully up to […]
3 Aug 2017 by Vasil Michev
For the final article in our ‘Permissions Inventory’ series, we will cover mailbox folder permissions. The PowerShell script included in this article will help you generate a detailed report on all (or some) folders across all (or some) mailboxes in the company, along with their permissions. While this script is similar to the previous scenario […]
25 Jul 2017 by Vasil Michev
It’s time for the next article in our “Permissions Inventory” series. This time, we will take a look at Calendar permissions, more specifically the permissions on the default Calendar folder in users’ mailboxes. This kind of report is useful for keeping an eye on collaboration between your users (including external sharing), as well as troubleshooting […]
19 May 2017 by Vasil Michev
Continuing our “Permissions inventory” series, this article will demonstrate how to get a report on all the mailboxes in the company that have some form of forwarding configured. As usual, we will cover the basic cmdlets you can use to gather this information, discuss some tips and provide you with a script that generates a […]