Working with Administrative units in the Office 365 Admin Center

As of two weeks ago, an update that incorporates the Administrative units feature into the Office 365 Admin center has started rolling out across the service. The rollout was announced with an update to the corresponding Office 365 Roadmap item and the following Message Center post: As neither the Roadmap items, the Message center post, […]

Like all the recent scripts we have published, the script aims to illustrate some common concepts that should help you minimize the time it takes to obtain the report, rather than a foolproof solution that will address all possible scenarios. Let’s dig in. What to include in a mobile device report There are several approaches […]

In this blog, I will be moving on from Office 365 permissions to something broader: Azure AD. Azure AD is the directory service behind Office 365 and takes care of identity provisioning and authentication. Actually, this definition is not entirely correct. In fact, Office 365 is just one of the thousands of services/applications that use […]

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 […]

A fairly recent improvement is the option to connect to a PowerShell session via multi-factor authentication (MFA). In other words, the relevant PowerShell modules now support modern authentication (sometimes referenced also as ADAL, based on the name of the libraries used). In this post, we will explore how this process works. Connecting PowerShell to Office […]

Do you manage an Office 365 tenant? Would you like to script automatic email alerts so that you can be informed on any incident that is affecting your tenant in real-time? If the answer is yes to both of these questions, then it is likely that you’ll be interested in a new module published to […]

When you first sync a device to your environment it creates a partnership between Office 365 and your device. You can see these partnerships for your entire organization by looking at the Users with Mobile Device report built into our advanced Office 365 delegated administration tool. The mobile device market is one that is very fast-paced […]

If you do any kind of heavy work with Exchange Online in PowerShell you’ve probably come across throttling. This is applied at the Exchange Server level and restricts the amount of resources you can consume in the Office 365 environment. Whilst they’re annoying and make our life miserable, we can understand why they are in […]

One very quick way of obtaining a list of users in your Office 365 Organisation that have a forward set on their mailbox, is by using the get-mailbox cmdlet within Powershell. Alternatively, you can learn more about our Office 365 reporting software which will give you the added benefit of having this report automatically sent out on a […]

I recently came across a question in the Office 365 Forums asking how one can set the Language and Time Zone for all users in Office 365. For this, we need to use the Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration cmdlet in PowerShell. Once we’ve connected to Office 365 using Powershell, we only need to run one cmdlet. get-mailbox | […]