Get list of users created in AD within last few days

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Using PowerShell we can get list of users created during a particular time frame, like in last 1 day, 30 days, etc. This may be helpful in AD audit or to track any security breach.

First, create a variable and store the date you want to go back.

Make sure you run the PowerShell as Admin, if you don’t you may get blank values for WhenCreated

$When = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) # You can change number of days here as per your requirement. 
Get-ADUser -Filter {WhenCreated -ge $when}

#IF you want to list particular properties, you can use below command.
Get-ADUser -Filter {WhenCreated -ge $when} -Properties * | FT Name, UserPrincipalName, WhenCreated

We can also get group membership of these users in same command output.

Get-ADUser -Filter {whenCreated -ge $when} -Properties * | select UserPrincipalname, SamAccountName, Enabled, whenCreated, @{n="GroupMembership"; e={$_.MemberOf | foreach {(Get-ADGroup $_).Name}}}

Export this list to CSV file.

Get-ADUser -Filter {whenCreated -ge $when} -Properties * | select UserPrincipalname, SamAccountName, Enabled, whenCreated, @{n="GroupMembership"; e={$_.MemberOf | foreach {(Get-ADGroup $_).Name}}} | Export-CSV C:\Temp\ADUsersWhenCreated.csv -notype

Maximize Teams meeting shared content

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When you are in a Teams meeting and someone is sharing content from their screen. In the new Teams meeting experience Teams meeting window open in a separate window and chat in a separate window and the sharing window size is really small.

We can turn off “New Teams meeting experience” but then we will have one single window for meeting and chat. though, we will have “Full Screen” option and can see large window when someone is sharing screen.

To turn off New Teams meeting experience go to Settings->General->Application -> Uncheck “Turn on new meeting experience”. This option is not available in new Teams versions.

Though, we can increase the sharing Teams window size in new meeting experience also.

To use Full Screen in sharing window.

Click on the “More Actions” (Three dots at the top of Teams Window) -> Click on “Full Screen”

Go to more actions again and click on Focus.

If the Window size is still small, you can also Zoom in the shared window.

Just press Ctrl key on keyboard + (rotate mouse wheel up) to increase Zoom in or rotate mouse wheel down to zoom out.

ActionWindowsMac
Zoom inCtrl+= or Ctrl+(rotate mouse wheel up)Command+= or Command+(rotate mouse wheel up)
Zoom outCtrl+- or Ctrl+(rotate mouse wheel down)Command+- or Command+(rotate mouse wheel down)
Reset zoomCtrl+0Command+0

How to Copy Other User’s OneDrive Data to your OneDrive

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There are situations when we need to copy one user’s OneDrive data to another user’s OneDrive. For example a user leaving company and his manager wants all the project related files from his OneDrive. By default when we remove user’s license OneDrive data is preserved for 30 days which can be increased. If we want to preserve files longer than this, we can either enable retention hold on OneDrive or copy data to another user’s OneDrive.

We can follow below process to Copy OneDrive data.

  • Grant permissions on user’s OneDrive to his manager How to grant permissions ?
  • Generate OneDrive link and provide the link to user
    • Login Microsoft Admin portal https://admin.microsoft.com/
    • Select the user for which you want to save the data
    • Go to OneDrive Tab and click on “Create link to access file”
  • Now user’s manager can copy the data
    • Copy the link and provide to end user to access files of the user leaving
    • Open the link on user’s manager computer and select the folders you want to copy to his OneDrive
  • Click on “Copy To” and the Manager will option to copy to his OneDrive.
  • Select “Your OneDrive”. You will have option to Copy to existing folders or you can create a new folder also.
  • Depending on the size of data, you will start seeing files and folders in your OneDrive.

How to grant a user permission to access another user’s oneDrive

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When an employee leaves your organization, the management wants to access their data to review it and give it a new employee or want to backup the data.

Once you remove the license and delete the user, you will have 30 days by default (can be increased from OneDrive admin center) to access user’s OneDrive data, after 30 days the data will be deleted.

We can allows other users to access OneDrive data using below methods.

Option 1 – Using user’s OneDrive link from M365 Admin center

In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select a user.
In the right pane, select OneDrive. Under Get access to files, select Create link to files.

Click on this link and you will get redirected to the user’s OneDrive in your browser window.

Replace OneDrive with mngsiteadmin, so the link will become line below.

Add the new user in the permissions list and click Ok. don’t remove any permissions from here.

The new user will have permissions to the OneDrive

Option 2 – Using SharePoint Admin Center.

  • Login SharePoint Admin Center
  • On the left hand pane open the “more features”
  • Under User Profiles, select Open.
  • Under People, select Manage User Profiles.
  • Enter the user’s name and click Find.
  • Right-click on the user’s name and select Manage Site Collection Owners.
  • Add a secondary admin in the “Site Collection Administrators” and Click OK

Update Room and Equipment Mailboxes features using the Resource Schema

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When creating room mailboxes, it is good to show features of room mailbox to end users for easy identification.

By default in GAL description will only show “Room” which may not be sufficient to identify capabilities of Room while booking.

For example, we can update details like TVScreen, whiteboard, Smartboard with room.

Using resouce schema we can update all features of a room mailbox.

#To check current resource config
Get-ResourceConfig

We can add resource schema using below commands.

Set-ResourceConfig -ResourcePropertySchema @{add="Room/WithTVScreen"}
Set-ResourceConfig -ResourcePropertySchema @{add="Room/Whiteboards"}

Adding resource config value will not update any mailbox, but we will have to set these configs on room mailboxes.

If a item is not there in resource config, you can’t add that item on room mailbox.

Also, only a alphanumeric value is allowed and space is not allowed. 

Set-Mailbox R_BoardRoom -ResourceCustom   @{add= "WithTVScreen"}
Set-Mailbox R_PinkRoom -ResourceCustom  @{add= "WithTVScreen", "Whiteboards"}
Set-Mailbox R_SmartRoom -ResourceCustom  @{add= "WithTVScreen", "Whiteboards", "VideoConf" }

Once you update and download the GAL, you will see below results.

Add members to Azure AD/Microsoft 365 Groups in bulk

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We can bulk update Microsoft 365/Azure AD Groups using PowerShell. We just need a list of users UPN or primary SMTP Addresses.

Get the group’s object ID.

You can copy the group’s object ID from Azure AD console from properties tab or use below command.

#Connect Azure AD
Connect-AzureAD
(Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString Test-Group).ObjectId

If you want to add a mailbox to the group, use below command, it will add User@domain.com to Test-Group

#Connect Azure AD and Exchange online if not connected already. 
Connect-AzureAD
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <Your O365 Admin ID>

Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId <Group's Object ID> -RefObjectId (Get-Mailbox User@domain.com).ExternalDirectoryObjectId

If you want to add a set of Azure AD users, for example all users start with TestUser, below command will add all the users start with TestUser to TestGroup

Get-AzureADUser -SearchString TestUser | foreach {Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId <Gorup's ObjectID> -RefObjectId $_.ObjectID}

If you have a list of users, create a file Userlist.txt [One UPN or email per line] and save in C:\Temp folder. Below command will add all the users mentioned in Userlist.txt to the Test-Group

#Connect Azure AD and Exchange online if not connected already.
Connect-AzureAD
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <Your Microsoft 365 Admin ID>
Get-Content C:\Temp\UserList.txt | foreach {Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId <Group's Object ID> -RefObjectId (Get-Mailbox $_).ExternalDirectoryObjectId}

Add Microsoft 365 licenses in bulk

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We can add bulk license to Microsoft 365 users using Microsoft 365 PowerShell, though it is always good to create a Dynamic group for license assignment. But, we can have situation when we want to add licenses to some users who already have other license assigned and doesn’t have any common attribute to create and add new license.

For Example, you have new “Phone System” license and want to add that license to selected users for testing or for UAT.

If user doesn’t have any license and we are adding license for first time, then we will have to set location first.

Step 1 –

Get list of users and save in a file “UserList.txt”, one UPN per line and place in C:\Temp folder on your computer.

The below command will set location on all users mentioned in “UserList.txt” to US.

Connect-MsolService

#When prompted enter your Microsoft 365 Admins accounts UPN and password.

Get-Content C:\Temp\UserList.txt | foreach {Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $_ | Set-MsolUser -UsageLocation US}

If users are being synced from On-prem AD, you can set msExchUsageLocation on on-prem AD users and wait for the Sync to complete.

Run below command on your On-Prem AD server.

Get-Content C:\Temp\UserList.txt | foreach {Get-ADUser -Filter {UserPrincipalName -eq $_ | Set-ADUser -Add @{msExchUsageLocation = "US" }

Step 2 –

Get the SkuPartNumber of the license you want to add to users.

Connect-AzureAD

#When prompted enter your Microsoft 365 Admins accounts UPN and password.

Get-AzureADSubscribedSku | Select Sku*, ConsumedUnits

Note down the license Sku number to use in next command. For example for “Phone System” SkuPartNumber is MCOEV.

Step 3 –

The below command will add “PhoneSystem” license to all users and there would not be any change in existing license.

Get-Content C:\Temp\UserList.txt  | foreach { Write-Host "Processing $_";  Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $_  -AddLicenses "YourTenantname:MCOEV" }

Get Distribution Group Owner lists and email

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User below PowerShell one liner we can list group owners and their email ID in Microsoft 365.

To get for one group.

Get-DistributionGroup TestGroup@Domain.com | select PrimarySmtpAddress, @{n= "ManagedBy"; e={$_.ManagedBy | foreach {(Get-Mailbox $_).PrimarySMTPAddress}}}

To get for all groups

Get-DistributionGroup | select PrimarySmtpAddress, @{n= "ManagedBy"; e={$_.ManagedBy | foreach {(Get-Mailbox $_).PrimarySMTPAddress}}}

We can also filter groups and get the list. Below command will list all the groups starting with DL-IT

Get-DistributionGroup DL-IT* | select PrimarySmtpAddress, @{n= "ManagedBy"; e={$_.ManagedBy | foreach {(Get-Mailbox $_).PrimarySMTPAddress}}}
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