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1 month ago | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle Microsoft’s announcement that they will introduce a tenant-wide external recipient rate limit (TERRL) is a follow-up for the plan to implement an external recipient rate (ERR) limit for individual mailboxes in October 2025. Both TERRL and ERR are there for a simple reason: to stop people abusing Exchange Online by sending excessive amounts of external email. Stopping abuse by users is the same reason that forced Teams to block external chat for trial tenants.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux |Steve Goodman
Table of ContentsToggle A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to use the Entra ID audit sign-in logs to understand how users and applications interact with Entra ID. It’s the kind of knowledge that helps Microsoft 365 administrators understand how their tenants tick. Today, I’m going to take a slightly different approach by combining sign-in data with the last sign-in date for user accounts to generate a report about when users last signed in successfully and the apps they use.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Sean McAvinue |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle Some time ago, I wrote about a new sensitivity label setting to block access to content services. The feature uses an advanced label setting that must be configured using PowerShell. The makeover of the Purview portal doesn’t support allowing administrators to enable the setting through the current interface.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux |Michel de Rooij
Table of ContentsToggle Recently, I was challenged to create a version of the script to monitor the assignment of sensitivity labels to Microsoft 365 groups (teams, groups, or sites, otherwise called “containers”) to use the Microsoft Graph instead of the Exchange Online management module. Groups that are assigned labels inherit a range of settings that control how the groups work, which is why this form of sensitivity labels are called container management labels.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle Microsoft announced modernized eDiscovery in message center notification MC808165 (last updated 20 September 2024, Microsoft 365 roadmap item 383744). Normally Practical365.com doesn’t cover individual updates, but this is a major overhaul of a Purview solution that will affect how administrators work. In a nutshell, Microsoft is combining three separate solutions into a unified eDiscovery framework.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle Over the last few years, OneDrive for Business has evolved from personal storage for files created by Microsoft 365 users to become the default location for apps from Stream to Teams to Whiteboard to store files. More documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and other types of files are being stored in OneDrive for Business accounts.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle On September 16, Microsoft launched Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 (note the name change from Copilot for Microsoft 365). Wave 2 is a broad refresh of Copilot capabilities to achieve several goals, including:Make Copilot much more of a reality for applications like Excel and PowerPoint where the previous implementation was not good. Excel, an application where 90% of its available features are often ignored by users, gets turbocharged analysis through Python.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle On August 1, 2024, the new Outlook for Windows (aka “the Monarch client” reaches generally available status (see Microsoft 365 message center notification MC810420). According to Techopedia, general availability is the point in the life cycle for software when the software is made available for sale. All the necessary actions to prepare for worldwide distribution localization and support are complete and the software is free of critical bugs.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |James Yip |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle The question arose about how to find groups without members using the Graph APIs. This is a common issue, especially in large Microsoft 365 tenants where group membership gradually declines over time due to people leaving the company or moving roles. Microsoft’s ownerless group policy is a way to address the issue of locating groups that end up without owners for the same reasons, but it only handles Microsoft 365 groups and doesn’t check for zero memberships.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
practical365.com | Tony Redmond |Paul Robichaux
Table of ContentsToggle With a large dollop of hyperbole, Microsoft announced the commencement of rolling out the New Planner to general availability on April 3, 2024. Suffice to say that the news fell flat with many customers. A glance through the comments for the announcement identified common complaints like:Failure to respond to common customer requests in the Planner feedback forum, like the ability to add @mentions to task comments. No ability to backup plans.
