GAL segmentation and Ethical walls in Microsoft Teams

It’s not uncommon for various types of organizations to want to restrict one or more of the form of communication between their users. For example, in the EDU sector students are often limited to seeing and communicating with just their peers. Another example are financial institutions which can get into a …

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Reporting on Azure AD User objects via Exchange Online cmdlets and using them to grant mailbox permissions

Exchange Online now supports “plain” Azure AD User objects, as in users that are NOT Exchange recipients. Learn how to list them and even use them to grant access to various functionalities! …

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Using filters against objects containing special characters with Invoke-Command

Continuing the series “blog this so you don’t forget about it later”, here’s another interesting example on how PowerShell handles special characters. In a previous blog post, we discussed how to use server-side filters against objects containing a special character in the DistinguishedName attribute, more specifically an apostrophe (‘). The example …

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Connected accounts are being deprecated in Office 365

The Connected accounts feature basically works as an email client, which connects to and fetches messages from Gmail, Yahoo or any other IMAP/POP account. While Connected accounts have certainly never been the most popular feature, they were useful for scenarios where you wanted to keep messages from all your email …

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