Office 365 for IT Pros

Microsoft 365 Exceeds 450 Million Commercial Paid Seats

Microsoft FY26 Q2 results included a new figure for Microsoft 365 commercial paid seats: "over 450 million." Seats are growing at a consistent...

1 day ago

Microsoft Delays Retirement of Basic Authentication for SMTP AUTH

Microsoft has delayed the retirement of basic authentication for the SMTP AUTH client submissions protocol to 2027 or beyond. New tenants will...

2 days ago

How to Control Access to Entra Multi-Tenant Apps

Entra multi-tenant applications can be used by any tenant - unless you restrict sign-in audiences to permit only specific tenants to use the a...

3 days ago

Using the Exchange Online Message Trace API

January 22 saw the announcement of the beta version of an Exchange Online Graph-based message trace API. The API can retrieve message trace re...

4 days ago

Teams Revamps Premium Licensing

Microsoft announced a set of Teams licensing changes to take effect in April 2026. The changes affect devices, Microsoft Places, and Teams eve...

5 days ago

Teams Integrates Viva Engage Communities

A new integration with Viva Engage is available for Teams. The integration adds communities to the Teams navigation bar. It’s kind of odd when...

8 days ago

Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell Update 20

Monthly update #20 for the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook is now available for subscribers to download the updated EPUB and PD...

9 days ago

Generate a Weekly Report of Role Assignments

In this article we explore how to use Entra ID audit records to create a weekly report about role assignment additions and deletions. After de...

10 days ago

Synchronizing Security and Microsoft 365 Group Memberships

An article from 2018 uses the AzureAD and Exchange PowerShell modules to synchronize membership between a security and a Microsoft 365 group. ...

11 days ago

How to Create SharePoint Sites with the Graph API

Microsoft released the beta version of the SharePoint Online create Site API for the Microsoft Graph in late November 2025. Since then, Micros...

12 days ago