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Listing Actual vs Expected DNS Records for a Microsoft 365 Tenant with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / November 24, 2020 / Intune, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Scripts

In this post we will be looking at how we can list actual vs expected DNS records for a Microsoft 365 tenant with PowerShell. Background A Microsoft Office 365 Tenant requires certain DNS entries to be in place, for a verified domain, to ensure things like mail, collaboration and device management all work as expected. […]

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Office 365 updates stop working when workloads are switched to Intune

Ben Whitmore / August 3, 2020 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Intune, Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts, Windows 10

The following post will highlight a scenario where Office 365 Updates stop working for clients that have the Office C2R Apps workload moved to Intune. This was a “Think and write it down blog” so my apologies for the structure (or lack of it) – I hope you can still follow my train of thought.

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Deploy custom Microsoft Teams backgrounds, easily, with PowerShell and Intune

Ben Whitmore / June 29, 2020 / ConfigMgr / MEMCM / SCCM, Intune, Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts, Windows 10

This one has been in my blog queue for a while. @stuffygibbon did a shout out on Twitter so I thought I’d bring this post forward and show you how you can deploy a PowerShell script from Intune to install a custom background for your Microsoft Teams users! Custom Backgrounds for Teams? Microsoft announced a

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Azure AD Groups – in a nutshell

Ben Whitmore / April 13, 2020 / Azure, Identity, Intune, Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts

Not the longest post in the world but “Groups” are going to be quite pivotal in how you manage users and devices in Azure AD. In this post we will cover the basic Azure AD group and membership types. We will also look at how we can create Groups in both the Azure AD Portal

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Installing the OneDrive Sync Client in “Per-Machine” mode during your Task Sequence for a lightening fast “first logon” experience

Ben Whitmore / June 24, 2019 / Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, Scripts, Windows 10

Background One of the things I have been trying to improve is the users “first logon” experience in Windows 10. Waiting for the OneDrive sync client to “do its thing” reminded me of that one kid in the class that could be awesome if they tried harder. After the user profile is created (another post

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Generate Office 365 PAC Files with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / January 25, 2019 / Microsoft, Office 365, Scripts

If you have a proxy server in your environment and are using (or thinking about using) Office 365 then you will hit some pain barriers. As awesome as Office 365 is, she just isn’t a fan of proxies. We used to be left to our own initiative, creating complex proxy bypass rules and guessing which

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Install Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module

Ben Whitmore / October 23, 2018 / Microsoft, Office 365

Quick post this afternoon on how to install the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module. The latest version in the PowerShell Gallery at the time of writing this post is 0.9.5. More info on this module can be found at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/0.9.5

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Modify OneDrive Site Admins with PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / October 16, 2018 / Microsoft, Office 365

In our previous post Office 365 – Access a Users OneDrive Folder we looked at giving an Admin access to a users OneDrive files. In this post we will focus on adding and removing Site Admins, on a users Personal SharePoint Site (OneDrive), using PowerShell. First we will need to connect to SharePoint Online (see an earlier

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Connect to SharePoint Online using PowerShell

Ben Whitmore / October 16, 2018 / Microsoft, Office 365

So you want to do some PowerShell stuff in SharePoint Online. You will need the “SharePoint Online Global Administrator” permission to perform the connection. Before we do that, lets check if we have the SharePoint Online Management Shell already installed. 1. Launch PowerShell in Administrative mode and run:-

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select Name,Version

1	Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable \| Select Name,Version

2. If it is not listed,

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Office 365 – Access a Users OneDrive Folder

Ben Whitmore / October 15, 2018 / Microsoft, Office 365

I thought I would dig a little deeper on this cool little feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Administrators are able to select a user and “Access” that users OneDrive files. Cool for a number of scenarios, so Microsoft believe to create this feature, but it does comes with a caveat. (Read post before

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