Updated Audit log search UI in the Compliance Center (yikes!)

Over the last week or so, I was working on an article about some issues with the Azure AD Audit log for Practical 365. I was actually worried that I am being too harsh and toned down my criticism a bit before sending the article for publishing. In an ironic …

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Some more disconnects with managing users and groups in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

For a while now, I have been stumbling into some puzzling experiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center, and I decided it’s about time to get this off my chest. In this article, we will go over few such examples that have caused me to scratch (or bang) my head. …

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Reporting on Manager and/or DirectReports in Office 365

Getting a list of all the direct reports for a given user, or similarly building the manager’s chain seems to be a common question lately, so I figured I’d write a short article on this. There are few different ways for us to query this information, so let’s go over …

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Exploring Azure AD users and Security groups via the SCC PowerShell cmdlets

I’ve blogged previously about the fact that “plain” Azure AD Security groups are synced to EXODS and can in fact be used to assign permissions or added as members of Exchange groups. Similar observations were then made about “non-recipient” Azure AD user objects, although these were easily discoverable in the …

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