Office 365 for IT Pros

The ultimate eBook that’s consistently updated on the Microsoft 365 cloud Office suite. It includes detailed information on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Planner, Azure Active Directory, and much more.

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How to Enhance Copilot Usage Data

1 week ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleDiscussing the usage data that’s available for Microsoft 365 Copilot (in the Microsoft 365 admin center and via a Graph API), a colleague remarked that it would be much easier to leverage the usage data if it contained the department and job title for each user. The usage data available for any workload is sparse and needs to be enhanced to be more useful.
Find Exchange Mailbox Audit Data in the Unified Audit Log

1 week ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleFrom an engineering perspective, Microsoft’s decision to decommission the Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch cmdlets makes a ton of sense. Microsoft 365 apps consume shared services, and the unified audit service ingests the data used by these Exchange Online cmdlets. Why incur the engineering and support expense to keep the old on-premises cmdlets going?
SharePoint Advanced Management and Copilot for Microsoft 365

1 week ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleAt the Ignite 2024 conference, Microsoft announced that “Microsoft 365 Copilot will now include built-in content governance controls and insights provided by SharePoint Advanced Management.” At the time, and still broadly believed, the assumption was that Microsoft would provide customers with Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses with SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) licenses. Maybe even a single SAM license would be sufficient to license SAM technology alongside Copilot.
Microsoft Extends DLP Policy for Copilot to Office Apps

1 week ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleOn May 1, Microsoft announced that the public preview of the DLP policy for Microsoft 365 Copilot is effective for the Office apps (MC1059677, 21 April 2025, Microsoft 365 roadmap item 423483). The new functionality is an extension of the DLP policy introduced in March 2025. At that time, the policy only covered Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (BizChat). Its extension to cover the Office apps (desktop and web) is logical, even if the implementation is different.
General Channel Makes a Return to Teams

2 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleIn July 2024, Microsoft announced that team owners would be able to rename the General channel (or local language value) of teams. The idea was that “General” is just too general in nature and that it would be better if team owners could assign a more meaningful name to the first channel created in a team. OnceNow Microsoft has reversed course a tad.
Office 365 for IT Pros May 2025 Update Available

2 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleThe Office 365 for IT Pros writing team is proud to announce the availability of monthly update #119. Subscribers can download the updated files using the link in the receipt emailed to them when they bought Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition). The link always fetches the latest files. For more details about downloading updates, see our FAQ. Details about the changes in update #119 are in our change log.
Microsoft Introduces Reject Send Block for Exchange Online

2 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleIf your tenant still has devices that send email to Exchange Online, you should pay attention to the April 28 announcement about more control over the Direct Send feature. This step is part of the overall campaign to improve the security of Exchange Online that’s included initiatives like removing support for Exchange Web Services (EWS) and only accepting inbound mail from supported versions of Exchange Server in hybrid configurations.
Find Active Exchange Web Services Apps in Microsoft 365

2 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleOn April 22, I wrote about the steps Microsoft is taking to prepare for the removal of Exchange Web Services (EWS) from Exchange Online through the introduction of a dedicated app for hybrid interoperability. Essentially, the new app will take over as the fulcrum for fetching data such as free/busy information from on-premises mailboxes, first using EWS before moving to Graph API requests later this year.
Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell Update #11

2 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleThe Office 365 for IT Pros writing team are pleased to announce the availability of update 11 for the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook. The eBook is part of the Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) bundle and is also available separately (PDF and EPUB formats) or from Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats.
Copilot to Fix Grammar and Spelling Errors with 1 Click

3 weeks ago | office365itpros.com | Tony Redmond

Table of ContentsToggleI am indebted to Paul Robichaux for pointing out a notable example of where Copilot for Word could help authors rewrite text to be clearer and more concise. The offending article is in the Microsoft Graph documentation for a topic called “enhanced personalization control overview.” It’s part of a set of controls for Microsoft 365 features such as name pronunciation and user pronouns in an area that’s been under development for several years.