Priority cleanup for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Microsoft released the Priority cleanup feature in preview earlier this year. The initial version covered only Exchange Online mailboxes, but now support has been added for items stored within SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites. In this article we go over how Priority cleanup works with these two new workloads and highlight some of the differences compared to the Exchange Online scenario. We dive into the use case of cleaning files stored in the Preservation Hold Library due to a retention policy, cover the new Simulation mode, as well as some methods to monitor the progress of the cleanup operation. …

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New Graph API methods available for Entra ID audit logs operations

In this article we cover some recent additions to the Graph API that bring support for some Entra audit-related operations. We can now get summarized data for user non-interactive, service principal and managed identity sign-in events, via the getSummarizedNonInteractiveSignIns, getSummarizedServicePrincipalSignIns and getSummarizedMSISignIns methods, respectively. We can also get the count of sign-in events per app (signInEventsAppSummary) or overall (signInEventsSummary). Lastly, a metadata-like endpoint that list all currently supported Entra audit log activities has been added under the auditActivityTypes endpoint. …

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How to configure forwarding for a Microsoft 365 Group

In this article we explore the various ways to configure forwarding for email messages addressed to a Microsoft 365 Group. These include the self-service Inbox rule based method, mailbox-level forwarding, mail flow rules and simply adding the recipient to the Group’s “subscriber” list. Some basic troubleshooting steps are also outlined for the external forwarding scenario. …

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