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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Quick look at the sponsorOf property in the Graph API

In this article, we take a quick look at the recently introduced sponsorOf property/relationship for Graph API user objects. We examine how to leverage the property, provide few Graph query examples, and even correct some of the inconsistencies from the official documentation. As the sponsorOf property is only available in beta (preview) currently, things can change in the future, so exercise some caution when working with it. …

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Working with the group insights (analytics) Graph API

Microsoft introduced (Entra ID) Group insights in the beginning of the year. Still in public preview, the feature provides “at a glance” dashboard to highlight some common scenarios, as well as more detailed views in each supported category. While there is nothing revolutionary in it, and it does not address …

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