Real World Computing

Depending upon your settings and circumstances, there's a chance that groups created in Microsoft Teams might play so well together.  Specifically, your team might not be available for email.  As it turns out, the teams ARE available... they're just hidden.   and a little PowerShell is enough to coax them out.  Our Example In our example, the site is called Application Redevelopment and you can see from the screenshot that it appears in teams but not in outlook. The PowerShell Commands Session Setup The setup is as per usual; Start PowerShell in Administrator Mode. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Press Y and Enter. $UserCredential = Get-Credential Enter your user name and password. Create the session. $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection and activate it. Import-PSSessio...

Nesting Groups has been a bit of a pain in Office 365 for a while now but there's apparently a few answers (and some updates on the way).   Here's a PowerShell method.  The Setup To start with, we're going to create a group in Office365 Admin. It should be a mail enabled security group . In our example the group will be called; GRP MotherGroup and it will have an email address of MotherGroup@mydomain.com (obviously the domain will be different at your location). For the purposes of this exercise, you'll also want to create several groups to be nested. These are distribution groups and their names and emails for the purposes of our demonstration will be; GRP BabyGroup1  babygroup1@mydomain.com GRP BabyGroup2  babygroup2@mydomain.com GRP BabyGroup3  babygroup3@mydomain.com GRP BabyGroup4  babygroup4@mydomain.com The PowerShell Commands As usual, you'll want to run PowerShell in Administrator Mode. Set-ExecutionPolicy Remote...

I do a lot of reading on the Microsoft tech boards and I find the information that Microsoft provides around OneDrive to be both confusing and lacking in detail. I wrote this post as a means of clearing up some of the confusion.   So, here's my interpretation and opinions on what OneDrive and File Libraries in SharePoint (via a proper Office 365 E3 or E5 subscription) can offer; The Sync Client isn't all that Important SharePoint file libraries can replace all of your networked drive needs and these facilities have come a long way in the last few years. In fact, for the most part, SharePoint has finally eclipsed the need for the OneDrive Sync client.  There's a few minor exceptions to this rule. You still can't easily "link" files, so if you have an excel file which updates its data from other excel files, it a real pain to add and install those connections -- and it's much easier if you have a local synced connection. Saving files in Offi...

If you have a few big groups, you'll probably be asked to provide a list of their members on occasion. Like Notes, if you don't have a CRM on the front of your system, it's hard to get a list of group members that includes anything apart from their name... unless of course, you use PowerShell. Note: If you're copying and pasting from this blog entry, it's worth pasting into notepad so that you can rejoin any lines before pasting into PowerShell. I only give you one command at a time, so it should all be on one line. The Procedure Start PowerShell (in Administrator Mode) and connect to Office 365 Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned (and press Y ) $UserCredential = Get-Credential Enter your email address and password. If you're using 2 Factor Authentication... You'll need to open the Microsoft Exchange Online Powershell Module which should be on your desktop if you've followed the instructions ( see this post ). Enter the following command (c...