Sean McAvinue, Author at Practical 365

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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Five Ways to Enhance Collaboration Between Tenants

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

While most organizations operate a single Microsoft 365 tenant, there are cases where multiple tenants need to work very closely together. In this article, Sean McAvinue explains five ways to make the cross-tenant collaboration experience easier for end users and when to use each.

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Reporting External Domain Capabilities with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:42:16 +0000

Whether your organization sees external collaboration as a risk or a benefit, it’s important to understand exactly what you have configured. Therefore, Sean McAvinue has created a PowerShell Script to control and report External Domains.

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Automating Microsoft Planner Plan Creation with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Creating a Planner plan from a template allows a team working on a project to start working with the plan without creating a new plan from scratch. This is particularly useful when the same basic plan is used on multiple occasions. In this article, Sean Mcavinue shows you how to do this with some PowerShell Automation!

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Keeping Teams Tidy Through Automation

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

With a relatively small amount of effort, the provisioning of Teams in an organization can be automated to cater to the requirements of the business, as well as IT. In this article, Sean McAvinue goes over keep your Teams tidy through some useful tips and PowerShell code.

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Building your Microsoft 365 PowerShell toolbox

Sean McAvinue — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

PowerShell is an important tool for any Microsoft 365 Admin – particularly in larger environments. In this article, Sean McAvinue outlines some key tools and concepts to help tenant admins build a ‘toolbox’ for PowerShell to make almost any scripting task easier and more robust.

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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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Introduction to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Part II: Performing Common User and Group Operations

Sean McAvinue — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

This article dives deep into using the SDK to perform common day-to-day tasks to manage users and groups through the Graph. Be on the look out for the next part of this series!

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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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You’ve Migrated… But What Did You Leave Behind?

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Preparation, Preparation, and More Preparation Migrations in Microsoft 365 are a complex beast. It seems every time you feel like you have captured everything, more apps or functionalities appear. Every shiny new tool Microsoft releases is another consideration for migration teams and IT departments. Planning for migrations – tenant-to-tenant or otherwise – is a mammoth […]

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