This week I had a customer that moved from Skype for Business on-premises to Skype Online. He was used to be able to choose default federation policy for his users, and if a user needed federation he added them to an AD group.  The problem in Skype Online is that you cant choose what ExternalAccessPolicy … Continue reading Skype Online: Automatically assign federation policy

You learn something new every day. For months I have been doing Graph API calls trough PowerShell with JSON requests. If you copy/paste a JSON request body right into your favorite PowerShell editor you will get a lot of errors. To have a request that your editor can understand you need to do it like … Continue reading Why I did a major facepalm when I learned how easy JSON in PowerShell really is!

I was so lucky I got hold of a C450HD phone from AudioCodes. This is their first native Teams phone and even one of the first to market, so I was very eager to test it. You can even by a couple of clicks switch it over to the Skype for Business UI. The phone … Continue reading AudioCodes C450HD review: The native Teams phone!

I have written a script that counts every root messages and replies in every team/channel. It uses Microsoft Graph API to get the information needed. It has two functions. First one creates an HTML report with chat statistics for every channel in each Team. It also gives you a number of total messages in Teams! … Continue reading Teams chat activity stats.

I have created a script that goes through every tab in every channel in each team and counts how many there are of each type of tab. Of course, I have excluded the conversation and files tab as it's in every channel. I created this so there's an easy and fast way to get statistics … Continue reading Count tabs of each type in Teams.

Administrating Microsoft Teams have become relatively easier after the PowerShell model was updated to 0.9.6. But have in mind, its still in beta. There were  many basic settings that you only months ago had to do trough GUI or Graph API. I have compared all the cmdlets in the Teams PowerShell module with how you … Continue reading Teams module or Graph API?

I have written a script that uses Graph API and PowerShell to extract the messages and replies in every channel in a Microsoft Teams team. In these GDPR days, I would do some research on what's allowed in your country regarding data storage, before thinking about using this with real-world data. You can see an … Continue reading Archive Teams channel conversations automatically!