Office 365 for IT Pros

Combine Information Sources to Identify Obsolete SharePoint Online Sites

A Reddit post described the challenge of identifying and removing obsolete SharePoint Online sites from a Microsoft 365 tenant. The poster id...

Mix Up Test Data with M365Mutator to Make Scenarios More Believable

If you’ve ever tried to demo a Microsoft 365 backup solution, test a compliance workflow, or develop an application against Graph, you’ve hit the same wall: stale data. A backup demo isn’t impressive when nothing has changed since the last run. A search app looks broken when no new files have landed in Sh...

Looking for Inactive Distribution Lists

In November 2018, I discussed how to use message trace data to find inactive distribution lists. The code used the old Get-MessageTrace cmdlet from the Exchange Online management module. The old...

Use the Microsoft Graph To Retrieve Information from Entra ID

In 2021, I wrote about how to create a report about managers and direct reports. The article explained how to use cmdlets from the Azure AD PowerShell module to retrieve details about manage...

Calendar Agent Struggles to Cope with Scheduling Meetings

I really want to use Copilot to help manage my calendar. For me, that’s one of the best use cases for an agentic assistant that can take useful actions on my behalf. As someone who works with teams spread from California to Ukraine, and who travels frequently for work, I am eternally hopeful that agentic t...