Revamped Setup page in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

In case you missed it, the Microsoft 365 Admin Center now features an updated Setup experience, organized in the following set of (sub)pages: Guided setup (the new landing page/dashboard) Onboarding health Training resources Migration resources Deployment assistance The new experience is intended to “bring together Setup and Advanced Deployment Guides …

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PSA: Exchange Online stops honoring Sharing policies

As I was preparing some guidance around the upcoming deprecation (replacement) of the EWS-dependent org relationships and sharing policies in Exchange Online, an oddity surfaced. The goal was to illustrate the greater flexibility Sharing policies offer in terms of control, both on the per-user and per-domain basis, as well as …

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PSA: New endpoints for the Microsoft 365 reporting datamart (and new reports)

Microsoft announced an upcoming change to the domains used to access the Microsoft 365 reporting datamart. In this article we go over what’s changing and how to update your scripts/code. In addition, we review some of the newly introduced datasets, since we last looked at this back in 2024. …

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App instance property lock gets a scoping mechanism (and some other updates)

Back in 2023 Microsoft launched the app instance property lock feature. While the name likely means nothing to the average admin, the feature does address one serious gap in securing application access, as we explained in our initial article on this. An year later Microsoft toggled this feature on by …

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Convert mailbox folder identifiers non-interactively

In a previous article, we discussed how to convert Exchange folderIds (as returned by the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet) to the RestId identifiers employed by the Graph API. Here, we present a version of the script that can run non-interactively and has no PowerShell module dependencies. In addition, we present a purely Graph-based version to generate mailbox folder identifiers without any Exchange methods/cmdlets.

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