The last year i have been using demos.microsoft.com to create Office 365 demo tenants for workshops and speaker sessions. The page have recently gotten a huge facelift/upgrade, so i thought i woudl give you a short overview. If you go to My Environments you now have two choices. Create a Tenant or Virtual Machine. We … Continue reading Microsoft Demo Environment
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Guest post: Share and learn with TechSnips.
My name is Adam Bertram and Alexander Holmeset has so graciously allowed me to guest post on his blog about a new service I've started that offers free, how-to content for tech professionals. OK, here's the pitch: We're geeks, right? We love tinkering with tech and figuring out better ways to solve problems. How cool … Continue reading Guest post: Share and learn with TechSnips.
Is Office 365 Groups pre-prepared for Teams?
Just recently what i used to confirm if a Office 365 Group was Teams enabled or not was this one-liner: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity TestGroup -IncludeOldestAndNewestItems -FolderScope ConversationHistory | Select-Object FolderType If there was a conversation history foldertype of TeamChat, the group was Teams enabled. I got a question from one of my blog readers if there … Continue reading Is Office 365 Groups pre-prepared for Teams?
Do i have MSI or C2R Skype for Business?
After a discussion on Twitter, someone asked if there was a way to determine if the Skype for Business installation on your computer was MSI or C2R. The tricky part was that he needed to find this out without having a Microsoft Office installed on the computer. Had Office been installed, you could check if … Continue reading Do i have MSI or C2R Skype for Business?
Automatic creation of PointSharp ID users.
Created a short script that creates new Point Sharp ID users automaticaly. You can set that to create a user in PointSharp ID the user need to be a member of a specific group. When user is added to that AD group, the user is automaticaly created in PointSharp ID and password information is sent … Continue reading Automatic creation of PointSharp ID users.
One Liner: Find your computers DHCP IP address
Trying to teach myself what PowerShell replacements there are for well known CMD commands. I have always used IPConfig, even in PowerShell out of old habit. What commandlet you can use in PowerShell is Get-NetIPAddress. Heres Microsofts description: Example of output: Here is a one liner for finding your computers DHCP address:
Set forwarding address for everyone.
Short but useful script to set forwarding email address for every user in your Office 365 tenant. Can be useful for example if a company have been acquired, and the new owners want them to use theire email domain. Forwarding can then be a good temporary/quick fix to catching all emails to the old domain.
Email notification with external members in Teams team.
Been over a month since my last blogpost. I have been completely out of ides on what to blog about or what to script. Twitter to the rescue. Did not take long time after asking that i got some ideas on what i could script. So this is what i decided on doing: What about … Continue reading Email notification with external members in Teams team.
Office 365 Groups reporting and Power BI visualisation
This is a improvement of my reporting script from my Power BI blog series. Read these two blog posts to better understand this script and article: Integrating PowerShell with PowerBI (Part 1) Integrating PowerShell with PowerBI: Module, script and reporting (Part 2) The script reports on a large variety of different data. It can for … Continue reading Office 365 Groups reporting and Power BI visualisation
Office 365 Groups activity one-liners.
Here are some one-liners to get various Office 365 Groups reporting/statistics. You can for example see last activity date on SharePoint, Inbox and Teams. Remember to log in to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online in the PowerShell session before running these one-liners.