Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Graph

Using Power Automate and Azure Automation to Manage the Lifecycle of SharePoint Sites

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

A key aspect of a well-managed Microsoft 365 environment is to ensure that SharePoint sites are removed when they are no longer needed. In this blog, Sean McAvinue explores how to combine relatively basic PowerShell and Azure Automation skills with Power Automate to create a clean, robust way to manage the lifecycle of SharePoint sites in your Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Secure Interactive Access to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Tony Redmond — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK uses a default enterprise app to hold its permissions. Over time, the SDK can accrue many permissions, so it's important to control interactive access to it. In this article, we review how to lock down the SDK app and how to create new registered apps for use with the Graph SDK.

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Upgrading the Planner Report Script to Add An Incomplete Task Analysis

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In the first article about using the Planner Graph API to report details of plans in a Microsoft 365 tenant, we explained the basics of how to extract data about plans, tasks, and buckets to create a report using a PowerShell script. Now we take the lessons learned a step forward to illustrate the principle that with access to data, the possibility for creative use of that data is boundless and upgrade the script to include a listing of incomplete tasks and per-user analysis of incomplete tasks for each plan.

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How to Deal with Common Errors when Running Graph Commands with PowerShell

Tony Redmond — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

It's great to be able to run Graph API requests in PowerShell scripts if everything goes right. This article describes why some common Graph API errors occur in scripts and what to do when the errors happen. Most errors are due to permissions assigned to the Azure AD apps used to run scripts and getting the basics will resolve those problems.

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Reporting Meeting Room Statistics with PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph

Tony Redmond — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

This article explains how to use the Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell to extract meeting data from the calendars of room mailboxes to generate statistics about the usage of the rooms. Only confirmed meetings are included in the data.

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Introduction to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Part III: Interacting with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

In this article, Sean McAvinue explains how to Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to Interact with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

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Updating Microsoft Graph PowerShell Modules for Azure Automation

Tony Redmond — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Every month, Microsoft generates a new version of the Graph PowerShell SDK. And if you use the SDK with Azure Automation, you must update automation accounts with the new modules. That's a pain to do manually, but easy to automate with PowerShell as we explain here.

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Introduction to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

A Unified Approach to Microsoft 365 management The Microsoft Graph API has been around for some time now and Microsoft is moving more management functions (such as License Management for Azure AD Accounts) to the platform. When Microsoft transitions a function to the Graph, organizations might have to update PowerShell scripts. Getting started with the […]

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How to Find Microsoft 365 Groups with Guest Members

Tony Redmond — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 04:52:00 +0000

In this article, we consider the best way to use PowerShell to find the set of Microsoft 365 Groups with guest members. And once we find those groups, we can check if they have a suitable sensitivity label.

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Creating a New Microsoft 365 Group with the Microsoft PowerShell Graph SDK

Tony Redmond — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this article we discuss how to create a new Microsoft 365 group using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. After creating the new group, we use the New-MgTeam cmdlet to team-enable the group.

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