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Part #2: Tips for Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
In Part 1, I gave you an introduction to Microsoft Graph and specifically to the PowerShell SDK. In this Part 2 article, I’m sharing some tips which should help with your daily tasks. Of course, these tips also apply when you use the module for automation.
Active Directory, AD CS, Azure AD Connect, and Azure MFA Server are all Microsoft on-premises identity products. From the cloud side of things, Azure AD and Defender for Identity swoop in. All these products and services saw updates and improvements this last month. Let’s make sure you didn’t miss a thing!
Microsoft Ignite was held on October 12 to 14th 2022, and was a truly hybrid event, with in-person sessions held at the Seattle conference center as well as pre-recorded content and Teams live-event style sessions being streamed around the world. The big catch phrase of the conference this year was “Do more with less”. As organizations adapt to new challenges, they are looking to have more choice in the way they work and to get better results with less friction. The updates to products revealed at Microsoft Ignite were aimed at helping customers get the full value of Microsoft’s technologies.
Part #1: Introduction Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
As mentioned in a previous article about Azure AD custom roles for Exchange Online administrators here, Microsoft has planned retirement of their PowerShell modules. You can read more about this in your Message Center in MC281145:
Microsoft’s identity portfolio consists of many products, like Active Directory, AD FS, Azure AD Connect, Defender for Identity, Microsoft Identity Manager and Azure AD. Many organizations utilize these products and services in a Hybrid Identity setup. While it looks like Azure AD sees 3 changes per day on average, Microsoft’s on-premises products also see changes. More than 3, actually, this month:
It doesn’t matter whether you refer to it as Kerberos Armoring, Flexible Authentication Secure Tunneling (FAST), RFC4581, RFC6113, or Kerberos pre-authentication… it is time to deploy it in your Active Directory environments.
Microsoft’s identity portfolio is huge and includes products and services like Active Directory, AD FS, Azure AD Connect, Defender for Identity, Microsoft Identity Manager and Azure AD. Contrary to what some belief, Active Directory on-premises is supported, alive and kicking and here to stay for most organizations. This became abundantly clear in August 2022, as Microsoft improved things for Identity admins in the following ways:
Exchange admins have enjoyed the Group writeback optional feature in Azure AD Connect for a long time. It offers add-on functionality to Microsoft 365 Groups in Azure AD for organizations that use both Active Directory and Azure AD in a Hybrid Exchange setup.
Microsoft 365, formally Office 365, is maturing. It has been more than 10 years since the launch of Office 365, and the type of migrations I see as a consultant are changing.
