Administrative accounts without mailbox and still receive notifications in Primary Mailbox - How does it work?

During the onboarding / rollout of Defender for Endpoint and Azure Arc Agent, the network plays a significant role. Communication via the Internet is usually restricted by segmented networks and secured by firewalls and proxies. To prevent errors or communication problems, the required ports & URLs should be opened to ensure seamless onboarding and operational processes.

Based on the default settings and configuration, mailboxes in Exchange / Exchange Online are created with the default language. This is causing some users to see Inbox (default language en-US) in Outlook instead of “Postfach” (German).

Many automations with Power Automate are based on SharePoint lists. Some of them are used to collect, analyze data and send notifications. This is where most of the requests come to send notifications by mail to specific users.

This section of the blog series is focused on the migration and the selection of the tool and the procedure during the migration process. Once the basic topics of strategy and identity have been clarified, we come to the next question: “How and what do we actually migrate?

In many cases, the use of Microsoft 365 Services requires existing processes & workflows to be reworked and existing Microsoft Excel lists to be replaced by Power Apps and SharePoint Online Lists / Microsoft Lists, because with the integration into the native Office 365 environment, new and significant possibilities for automation are provided and previously time-consuming processes can be accelerated.

In the first part of the blog series, we took a look at the topic of planning and selecting the migration scenario and developed a long-term strategy based on the business and technical requirements and defined how the tenant migration should be implemented schematically.

Many tasks and processes can be automated quickly and easily using the Microsoft Graph API. This can be implemented with low-code applications such as Logic App or, for example, via Azure Function and PowerShell. Depending on the requirements, complexity, a variety of options are available.

Business changes, acquisitions, divestments, and corporate reorganizations often result in the need to merge companies or divisions. Today, a large number of companies already use Office 365 services, so an important step for IT is to ensure seamless collaboration and provide centralized management for the various divisions / companies.

When automatically processing SharePoint lists using Power Automate, it is usually necessary to filter the list entries based on column & row values. Filters are also the fundament for an optimal workflow runtime.