Flow/Power Automate and Function Apps – Securing a Function App with a Service Principal

By | November 3, 2020

I’ve written a fair bit about how I use Function apps and Flow to get data about 365 environments. There are clear advantages and disadvantages of each. Flow is incredibly slow, difficult to process data in and is in general restricted to what you can take out of Microsoft Graph. Function Apps allow you to… Read More »

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Microsoft/Office 365 PowerShell in Azure Functions – AzureAD Module and Graph

By | May 10, 2021

I’m a big fan of running powershell in function apps. Sorry, no that’s wrong – I’m a big fan of NOT running powershell on “reporting servers”, “management boxes”, “that vm that does the 365 stuff” or anywhere where there is even the slightest chance I’m going to find myself fixing a problem on a windows… Read More »

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Microsoft/Office 365 PowerShell in Azure Functions – Exchange Management

By | September 8, 2020

And on the seventh year of Exchange Online did the Version 2 PowerShell module be released and there was great rejoicing. Except for people trying to work in Azure Function Apps. Pretty much the most common reporting or regular maintenance activities in 365 is managing Exchange. We all have a tonne of powershell scripts for… Read More »

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Using Power Platform and Graph for Office 365 Reporting – Part 4 – Summary and History

By | September 2, 2020

As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanism for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit… Read More »

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Using Power Platform and Graph for Office 365 Reporting – Part 3 – Data Cleansing

By | August 18, 2020

As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business unit… Read More »

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Using Power Platform and Graph for Office 365 Reporting – Part 2 – License Assignments

By | August 19, 2020

As per Part 1 – The need here was to create a completely airgapped – i.e. no admin accounts for logging into reporting dashboards – reporting mechanisms for managers across a tenant shared between 20 or more business units. The reporting was primarily to monitor licenses and how they were assigned, what usage the business… Read More »

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