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Licensing Changes Brings Larger Mailboxes to More Microsoft 365 Users

Previously flagged in a licensing announcement in February 2026, on August 19, 2026,

Intermediate Move to Microsoft 365 Archive Step for Retention Policies and Labels

Message center notification MC1325441 (updated 4 August 2026, Microsoft 365 roadmap item 561208) announces a new ability to archive files stored in ...

Retention Policies Can Remove Old Planner Tasks – So Can PowerShell

Microsoft Purview is adding support for retention policies for Planner tasks and the functionality should turn up in tenants during August 2026, so why write about how to remove old Planner tasks with PowerShell? My real reason is that writing such a script has been on my to-do list for the last three yea...

Figuring Out Who Needs Entra P1 Licenses

In the discussion about the licensing gap highlighted in the Entra admin center between the use of conditional access policies and accounts with Entra P1 or P2 licenses, I made the point that the number of licen...

Increase Performance by Batching Graph Requests to Delete Mailbox Items

A previous article describes how to use JSON batching to increase the performance of Graph-based automation for large Microsoft 365 tenants. In that article, I show how to use batchin...