Microsoft 365 Scripts

Enhance Exchange Email Monitoring Using PowerShell

For all Microsoft 365 users, Outlook serves as a central hub for connectivity to the exchange of ideas, information, and more. Yet, this platform helps for bustling activity and visible interactions, there is a crucial need for Exchange email monitoring to safeguard from cyber threats. Monitoring emails through mail flow reports needs navigation to multiple admin portals like Microsoft 365 admin center, Exchange admin center, Security and Compliance center, etc. To avoid such navigations, admins can prefer using PowerShell. In addition to this, PowerShell also... Read More Read More

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Restrict External Storage Providers in OWA – Data Confidentiality Matters Most

The primary reason to go for an external storage provider in Outlook is to obtain additional storage capacity beyond the default limit. However, the inclusion of external storage providers also opens the door to potential security risks. Are you fully aware of the implications? It’s time to address the impact of external storage providers in the Outlook Web App (OWA).     Integrating third-party storage with webmail brings seamless file access, sharing, and modification outside Office 365 environment. However, it will... Read More Read More

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Encrypt Email in Microsoft Outlook to Safeguard your Sensitive Information

In today’s world, email communication is a part of everyday life. Every one of us sends and receives emails in our work environment. Are they utterly secure? Are we the only ones seeing? The questions that bothered me might bother you too. Emails are considered to be the common channel for cyber security threats such as spoofing, spam, phishing attacks, etc. And also, approximately 7 million records are exposed to compromise every day since they are not encrypted. So, here is where email... Read More Read More

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2022 Recap: Essential Office 365 Scripts for Administrators

Hurray! 😎It’s one year blogging anniversary 🎉for ‘M365scripts’. A hark back at the best blogs of the year is the only way to celebrate this! The purpose of this recap is to summarize the most wanted Office 365 blogs under a single roof that helped most of the admins. These blogs include helpful Office 365 scripts for user management, major feature updates, and other key configurations. Let’s break into the topic straightaway!  PowerShell Scripts for Easy Management   1. Effectively Manage Microsoft Teams using PowerShell... Read More Read More

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Set Office 365 Users’ Password to Never Expire Using MS Graph PowerShell

Developing a strong password is the most effective strategy to keep your Office 365 environment secure. As part of the password expiration policy, users are likely to change their passwords frequently. Since passwords are often changed, users tend to choose weaker and easier passwords over time. Therefore, these passwords can get hacked at ease.   Frequent password changes lead to weak passwords, so it’s better to have a solid and hard-to-crack password strategy, which can be set to never expire, right?  It... Read More Read More

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List All Office 365 Mailboxes that Forward Emails to a Specific User

Getting a list of Office 365 mailboxes with a forward is accessible. But in some situations, admins want to know a list of Office 365 mailboxes that forward emails to a specific user. For example, when an employee leaves an organization, admins need to identify the automatic email forwarding to that user and replace the user with a new one.      How to Get All Mailboxes that Forward to a Specific User?   Suppose you try to identify automatic email forwarding to a... Read More Read More

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Manage Delegate Access Control on Protected Emails in Outlook using PowerShell

Microsoft 365 provides an option to control access on protected emails, such as emails protected by MIP sensitivity labels or RMS protected emails for delegates and shared mailbox members.   Delegate Access Control on Protected Emails – How it Started?   Even though the feature exists already, it has a few inconsistencies. When a delegate has full access to the mailbox, the delegate can access encrypted emails based on the Outlook client they are using.    Delegate access: Delegates can view encrypted emails... Read More Read More

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Find Number of Emails Sent and Received by User in Office 365

As a Microsoft 365 admin, you must track users’ email activity to ensure secure communication. If you ever wonder how to find the number of emails sent and received by an individual mailbox, I can help you with the simple PowerShell cmdlets.  Most admins use ‘Get-MailTrafficReport’ and ‘Get-MailTrafficTopReport’ to identify per user mail traffic statistics. Due to Microsoft’s recent deprecation, these cmdlets will not work anymore. So, admins need to find the alternative cmdlet for ‘Get-MailTrafficReport’.  How to Get Office 365... Read More Read More

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Enabling MFA for Microsoft 365 Admins Using PowerShell

Authenticating your Office 365 account just once with a password won’t protect your data as you won’t know how the login occurred, either by you or by an attacker. So, you need to depend upon the second form of authentication that delivers a strong authentication. Here Multi-factor authentication(MFA) can be of great assistance. Multi-factor authentication is purposely used to provide more security to your Office 365. To give much security to your organization, enable MFA for admins. What is Multi-factor... Read More Read More

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Opt-in to the Exchange Online Endpoint for Legacy TLS Clients using SMTP Auth

We all know that Exchange online ended support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in 2020 to meet the security and compliance requirements. However, Microsoft still allows clients to use legacy TLS versions to connect with Exchange Online.  In 2022, Microsoft has planned to completely disable older TLS versions in Exchange Online to improve security. If your organization still uses clients that aren’t compatible with TLS 1.2, then the new opt-in endpoint can be set to use the previous versions... Read More Read More

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