Enabling litigation hold on an Exchange Online mailbox fails because of invalid license

A query came up about not being able to activate Litigation hold on a (shared) mailbox in Exchange Online. While the there have not been any changes in the process of enabling a hold on a mailbox, we did get a change in the provisioning behavior for shared mailboxes few …

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News roundup: new host, renewed as MVP, and the new edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros book

You might have noticed that I haven’t been very active on the blog lately, and to some extent on the various communities. It’s not because AI took our jobs, not yet 🙂 I’ve been of course very busy with reviewing the latest (12th) edition of the Office 365 for IT …

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Using the Get-MessageTraceV2 cmdlet to generate mail traffic statistics by user

In this article we explore the recently introduced Get-MessageTraceV2 cmdlet and use it to bring new life to the good old Get-DetailedMessageStats.ps1 script. The script has now been updated to work with modern authentication methods and the new “no pagination” approach to fetching message trace data, as well as to handle scenarios that have become available since its initial introduction (i.e. plus addresses). …

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How to manage Entra ID’s banned password list via the Graph SDK for PowerShell

Entra ID’s password protection feature was introduced back in 2018, adding support for a banned password list, the smart lockout controls and integration with on-premises AD. Programmatic access to the feature was enabled via directory settings templates, which at the time were exposed via the Azure AD Preview PowerShell module, …

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