The last post in this series, covered how many years we've been around gobbledygoop, and how 'expenses' over those 'years', force some of us to do more gobbledygoop. Well, I wont bore you with any of that until next post. Rest assured, let's just get on with why we are here. Here (I said it again) we explore how to get configuration data from Exchange Online and Azure Active Directory. This will cover tenant configurations and not delve too deep into policies and the policy engine as they deserve their own space. Pull Exchange Online Configuration using Powershell This Exchange ... Read More

Over the years I have assessed and analyzed many environments. Along the way I have run across many methods and tools for getting a configuration 'snapshot' while performing a discovery of a Microsoft environment. They all make calls to the Microsoft ‘management layer’ using different methods like, installing agents or direct access via WMI or code. They pull configuration data and provide some pretty cool canned reports around the data they gather. These tools can be expensive for 'integrators' as most of these products use ‘site’ licensing, forcing many of us to find other ways to quickly take a snapshot ... Read More