Category Archives: Office 365 Groups

Leave Those SharePoint Permissions for Office 365 Groups Alone

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Office 365 Groups and Teams make SharePoint much easier for people to use, with the price paid being the imposition of the groups permission model on SharePoint. On the upside, everything is very simple. On the downside, the permissions assigned to group members might not be what you want.

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Using PowerShell to Check Group or Team Membership

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PowerShell is great at getting lots done for Office 365 administrators. As an example, here are a couple of ways to check the membership of an Office 365 Group or a Microsoft Team to find out whether a specific user is already present. You might never need to use this tip, but then again, it’s always surprising when PowerShell comes to the rescue.

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Managing Office 365 Guest Accounts

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Office 365 with Teams

Many Office 365 applications (Teams, Groups, Planner, SharePoint, etc.) now support external guest access. you might end up with a lot of guests, and like any good accommodation, some management is needed. In this article, we look at how to manage the guests created by Office 365.

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Blocking Guests from Classified Office 365 Groups (and Teams)

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Office 365 Secrets

Office 365 Groups and Teams can hold tons of secrets that we don’t want to share outside our organization. To keep sensitive information secure, you can block guest users from groups by setting a directory policy on your most important and confidential groups.

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Adding Photos for Office 365 Guests

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Office 365 Hero

Office 365 apps like Teams, Groups, Planner, and SharePoint support guest user access, so they create guest accounts. Those accounts are pretty bare-boned, but you can liven them up by adding details, including user photos – which you might just copy from LinkedIn.

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Office 365 News and Views – June 2018

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Lots happens in a month within Office 365. I can’t possibly write an article about every change in SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, etc. released by Microsoft,, so sometimes I need to publish a catch-up (or catch-up) post. Here are ten things that I think are interesting enough for you to know about.

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Understanding External Access to Documents in an Office 365 Tenant (Part 3)

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Office 365 with Teams

Easy Sharing with Office 365 In part 1 of this series, we explore how document sharing occurs within Office 365, and how to use some SharePoint cmdlets to report details of guest users. In part 2, we look at how to report external users from the membership information for Office 365 Groups and Teams. Between […]

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Understanding External Access to Documents in an Office 365 Tenant (Part 2)

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Office 365 with Teams

Many Office 365 Groups and Teams have external guest members.Part 2 of our series about external access to documents in Office 365 explains how to use PowerShell to query groups about external guests so that we understand where the guests come from and what groups and teams they can access.

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Understanding External Access to Documents in an Office 365 Tenant (Part 1)

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Office 365 with Teams

It’s a good idea to understand whether any external people have access to documents in your Office 365 tenant. There’s no option on the Office 365 or SharePoint Online consoles to tell you what access external users enjoy to SharePoint sites, so we must use some PowerShell to interrogate SharePoint and see what that reveals.

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