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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Microsoft (unintentionally?) exposes inactive mailboxes content via the EWS API

In what seems like an “accidental feature release”, we can now leverage the EWS API methods to directly access content stored within inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online. I’d wager this to be a bug, but until we get some sort of official confirmation from Microsoft, all bets are off. Either way, I believe it is important for Microsoft 365 customers to known about this change in behavior, hence this short article. …

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Create report schedules for Microsoft 365 reports via PowerShell

While the functionality to create report schedules for (handful of the) Microsoft 365 hasn’t received any love for years now, I want to remind you that it still exists. In this article, we will take a deeper look at the PowerShell cmdlets used to manage report schedules, as well as refresh your memory on some of the basics. And who knows, Microsoft might eventually remember this functionality exists and add support for more reports 🙂 …

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New Copilot reporting datasets and how to fetch them programmatically

While Microsoft are quick to position AI/Copilot as the solution to all your needs, they’re not so quick to provide useful reports to gauge Copilot usage and adoption. And even when they do so, there is insufficient coverage within the Graph API, so you’re stuck with using the Microsoft 365 Admin Center instead. In this article, we will discuss how you can fetch the same Copilot usage and adoption data as the built-in reports, but without having to rely on the portal/UI. …

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