Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Archives - Practical 365

Practical Graph: Working with Exchange Online Mailbox Data

Tony Redmond — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Exchange Online mail folders and messages are a very important resource for Microsoft 365 tenants. This article discusses how to use cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to retrieve information about mailbox folders and mail messages together with some performance tips for dealing with folders that store thousands of messages.

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Practical Graph: Using GitHub Copilot for Microsoft 365 PowerShell Development

Tony Redmond — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

GitHub Copilot costs $10/month. At that price level, anyone working with PowerShell should try out the AI assistance to see if it helps. But will GitHub Copilot work well with Microsoft 365 PowerShell modules like Exchange Online and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. That's what we tested and report on here.

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Practical Graph: Microsoft Launches Entra PowerShell Module

Tony Redmond — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

On June 27, 2024, Microsoft launched the preview of the Entra PowerShell module. Built on top of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, the new module helps organizations that still have PowerShell scripts based on the now-deprecated AzureAD and AzureADPreview modules. If you're in that situation, the Entra module might help. But I recommend using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK instead.

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Practical Graph: Create a Files Report for a OneDrive for Business Account

Tony Redmond — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This article explains how to use PowerShell to create a report listing the files from a OneDrive for Business account. Because so many Microsoft 365 apps store their files in OneDrive (and other apps too), OneDrive can become a form of dumping ground for data. Seeing file information in the report allows account owners to clean up their digital debris.

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Practical Graph: Working with Teams Messaging

Tony Redmond — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This article describes how to use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to interact with Teams messaging to create new one-to-one and group chats and post messages to chats and channel conversations.

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Practical Graph: Report SharePoint Online Files in a Document Library

Tony Redmond — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

This article describes creating a SharePoint Online files report using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. While keeping digital debris online might have been unimportant in the past, it's something that can wreak havoc in the era of generative AI when tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365 are happy to consume obsolete and inaccurate material.

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Practical Graph: All About Pagination and Fetching Data

Tony Redmond — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:46:41 +0000

When you're new to Graph API requests, you might not know pagination and end up retrieving less data from queries than is available. In this article, we explain how to use pagination to retrieve data using Graph queries and SDK cmdlets.

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Using GitHub Copilot to Upgrade PowerShell Scripts to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Andy Schneider — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In this blog, Andy Scheider deep dives into GitHub Copilot and how it can be used to upgrade PowerShell Scripts to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

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Building a Teams External Access Allow List from External Chats

Tony Redmond — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000

A Teams external access whitelist controls the domains that users can connect to for federated chats. Organizations often limit federation using a whitelist to reduce the possibility of attacks through chat communications. This article explains how administrators can discover the set of domains users chat with by analyzing chat information using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.

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Practical Graph: Secure Interactive Access to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

Tony Redmond — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK uses a default enterprise app to hold its permissions. Over time, the SDK can accrue many permissions, so it's important to control interactive access to it. In this article, we review how to lock down the SDK app and how to create new registered apps for use with the Graph SDK.

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