Reporting on group membership for Entra ID devices (including assigned licenses)

In this article we explore the methods available to report on group membership for device objects within Entra ID. One of the scenarios where this is important is for device-based licensing for Microsoft 365 Enterprise apps. As neither the Entra ID portal nor Microsoft 365 Admin Center do a good job at that, we instead leverage the Graph API and Graph SDK for PowerShell, and provide sample scripts for both. …

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Some (not so) recent improvements with Lifecycle Workflows in Entra

Back in 2023, Microsoft released the Lifecycle workflow feature, which we covered in this article. Lifecycle workflows are one of the most impactful non-security related features we’ve gotten in the past few years, plus the fact that Microsoft released it with Graph API support from the get go made me …

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Reporting on unlicensed OneDrive (for Business) accounts in Microsoft 365

Last year, Microsoft announced plans to start charging tenants for data stored in unlicensed OneDrives, that is drives that belong to unlicensed Microsoft 365 users. Unlike Exchange Online, where inactive mailboxes provide you with essentially free retention for the duration of any hold/policies assigned to the user, the functionality to …

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