Category Archives: Groups

Post MSIgnite 2018 – What I’m Watching

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As I filtered through the 1700+ sessions leading up to Microsoft Ignite, I quickly knew that unless I was able to clone myself I would have some catching up to do.  Rather than try to sort through all of the sessions again later, I made a playlist of sessions that I’d like to go back and watch.

The playlist is a compilation of 70+ videos and 24+ hours of content, mostly in the Azure and Office 365 arena since that is where a lot of my focus is these days.  Is there a session that shouldn’t be missed?  Feel free to let me know what should be added!

Finding Members & Owners of an Office 365 Group or Microsoft Team

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As Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams continues to explode in popularity, the ability to explore and control resources in large scale is becoming more apparent.  While there are some basic controls available, those specifically included in the Teams PowerShell Beta module leave a lot to be desired.  The Teams module currently only allows you to get information about Teams that you are actually in, thus very limited in the benefits to an administrator.

One of the tasks I have come across is the need to get a list of Teams, along with the members and owners of each.  Continue reading →

Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup is not recognized

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While playing around with Office 365 Groups expiration and the AzureADPreview module in PowerShell, I ran into the error below:

The term ‘Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

After a bit of trial and error, and some searching I found an important note in the Azure Active Directory PowerShell Module documentation.  The documentation notes that the preview module cannot be installed on the same machine as the production module.  I didn’t seem to have an issue actually doing the installation using the PowerShellGet Module, and tab completion for the cmdlets even worked, but the cmdlets would not work.

Indeed, after uninstalling the production module (Uninstall-Module AzureAD), I was able to work with the preview cmdlets.

Using a Separate Domain for Office 365 Groups

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Office 365 Groups, sometimes referred to as Unified Groups, have been around for a while now.  Groups are excellent for collaboration, and allowing the end user to be in control of their own collaboration experience.  Groups are bad news for IT workers who need control or are resistant to change.  The latter group of IT workers will need to get on board though as it is evident that much of the Microsoft Office 365 ecosystem will be intertwined with Groups going forward.

For the past year, I have restricted group creation in production.  There are a multitude of reasons for not using Groups upon their initial release but, ultimately, it was lack of enterprise controls.  Most of those limitations have been remediated and the time for Groups is now.

In an effort to keep some form of structure around Groups, using a multi-domain approach is useful.

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