Office 365

Automate Office 365 Health Status Monitoring with Power Automate Using Service Communications Graph API

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I wrote an article on the same topic a couple of weeks ago that explains how to monitor Office 365 Health Status with PowerShell using the new Graph API. I know, like me, there are a lot of other Power Automate/Flow enthusiasts who would prefer to achieve the same without writing any lines of scripts. So, here is it. Before you get started, ensure that the account you are using with Power Automate/Flow at least has a “Flow per user” license assigned, since we’ll be using HTTP Action, which is a premium connector now. If you don’t have a Per […]

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AUTOMATE OFFICE 365 HEALTH STATUS MONITORING USING OFFICE 365 SERVICE COMMUNICATIONS GRAPH API

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I wrote an article on how to Automate Office 365 Health Status Monitoring using Office 365 Service Communications API a couple of years ago, which was found very useful for many Office 365 Admins. It was based on the API “https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/$TenantId/ServiceComms/Messages”, which has now been discontinued by Microsoft. I have put an update on that article about this, so that you can save your time by NOT attempting to try n make that work anymore. Instead Microsoft released Office 365 Service Communications API in Microsoft Graph, which not only provides additional endpoints to work with Service Communications with ever expanding Microsoft Graph ecosystem. […]

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MS Teams, Office 365

Open Multiple Instances of Microsoft Teams Client

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With the success of Microsoft Teams, which crossed 145 million daily active users recently, there has been an overgrowing need to use multiple instances of MS teams with different accounts. This is especially true if you work with multiple clients or multiple tenants (like Dev, UAT, Prod). In general, most of us use the easy workaround of just accessing the teams in a browser by going to teams.microsoft.com. This is already super useful and works almost flawlessly in most scenarios. But what if we have a bit better way to do the same, which looks and feels much closer to […]

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MS Teams, Office 365

Microsoft Teams apps for meetings

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By now Teams users are used to having various teams apps in form of Channel Tabs, Personal Tabs or messaging extensions. I feel, one of the extremely useful area is still being overlooked or not understood properly, and that is “Teams Apps for Meetings”. We are so used to having teams meetings throughout the day and because it’s so nicely integrated with other office 365 services, we hardly see to miss any feature. But what if we can do much more with teams meetings that we normally do? Let’s take a look. What is Teams Apps for meetings As explained […]

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Office 365, Power Automate

Send Documents by Email to SharePoint Online

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One of the most popular articles on my blog is How to Enable Incoming Emails in SharePoint Online, which was written around three years ago! The approach described in that article still remains valid and works well. But I decided to write this article because now we have an even better way to achieve the same. Essentially, this solution avoids the need of a password to be associated with each of the shared mailbox, making them more secure and easier to maintain. I will skip the background about why we need this, if you are reading this article then probably […]

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Easily Switch Between Multiple Accounts in Office 365 with Edge

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A wrote an article about the subject a couple of years ago and that still seems to be one of the most popular articles on my blog. Apparently, there are many users running into issues when trying to access Office 365 with various different accounts. The previous article explained how to do that using Google Chrome Browser. With the new Microsoft Edge Browser catching up fast, I thought maybe I should write this one for users who have grown fond of Edge recently. I will reuse some of the content from my previous post, so that you don’t have to […]

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Office 365, Power Automate

Automate Newsletter Generation using Power Automate

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Most people working with various organizations are used to receiving nicely formatted newsletters/communications over email about various subjects like IT Security Updates, HR Updates or some know how about certain Applications. While bigger organizations may have a separate team(s) and specific tools to do so, in most small to medium organizations, this process remains ad-hoc and mostly manual. So, what about we help them with some simple to use tool to generate such templated emails much faster! Problem Statement Continuing from the Introductory statement, I have seen in smaller and medium sized organizations and even various groups within larger organizations, […]

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MS Teams, Office 365

MS Teams Archival and What to Expect out of it

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There are many organizations still working on the transition to MS Teams, while some early adopters are quite ahead on this journey already. This article is more about the later who already have got a number of Teams workspaces (Teams teams, na!) and now started to think if they could archive their “Old” workspaces. However, other organizations can still use this to plan their MS Teams Archiving strategy in advance, as once you get started, depending upon your governance, the usage of MS Teams workspaces may explode dramatically. What do we mean by Archival So, in good old days, when […]

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Office 365, Power Automate

Power of Power Automate and a Big Limitation!

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Like me, I know, many of you also belong to the Fan club of Power Automate (or MS Flow as it used to be). It makes many of the complex data processing and computations a piece of cake. I so liked the combination of SharePoint, PowerApps and Power Automate that they became my defacto combo to start thinking about any solution with Teams to put everything together. So, if the Power Platform with other Microsoft 365 Applications is so great, then why this article? Background Let’s set some background before we jump into the topic. Recently, I was working on […]

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MS Teams, Office 365

Contextual Search in Microsoft Teams

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This small feature comes with great promise and potential. Till now, many people I worked with still prefer emails, specially for something formal or important, because they could organize the mails by folders and can find really old conversations using filters/search. And MS Teams lacked in that area, big time! Well, not anymore. What is Contextual Search In short, it’s searching within the scope where you currently are in MS Teams. Be it some specific 1-1 or group chat screen or any Team’s Channel. Before this feature was released, the moment you try to search for anything using the top […]

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