Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest – Part 8

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The Microsoft 365 Roadmap can be an invaluable source of information at times, although staying on top of the hundreds and hundreds of information it has to offer can be overwhelming. I've seen it advised by some to export the data to excel and move it to Power BI. That works great, although the context of this blog series is to have key information alert you so that there is no need for you or your team to check of your own back. With the power of Microsoft Flow, we will capture the new entries on the RSS feed and we will then send a weekly digest email.

Here is a glimpse of what the email output will look like.

For the ID of 43977 featured here, please see this link.

As you can see, each title is a hyperlink and directs you to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap where you can see full information as below:

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Call Microsoft Graph Organization Scope to Check Last AAD Connect Sync Time – Part 7

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Within any organization who run a hybrid Office 365 setup, AAD Connect has a sync cycle of 30 minutes (default) and unless someone is on one of the sync servers or in the admin portal and spots an error, there is a possibility that Dir sync (deprecated technology but still can be used to refer to AAD Connect) could have failed and go unnoticed for some time.

In terms of generating an alert, there is more than one way to achieve this using a PowerShell job, or a task on the server using task scheduler that runs PowerShell, but for some organisations these things are not permitted or possible, so in steps Flow & Microsoft Graph.

Firstly, I'd advise popping over to the Microsoft Graph Explorer and authenticating with your admin account.

Check the box to Consent on behalf of your organization.

We are now going to access the organization resource type and look at at 2 properties, onPremisesSyncEnabled & onPremisesLastSyncDateTime.

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Harness the Twitter API via flow to capture new tweets from @MSFT365Status – Part 6

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In this post, we will now add an additional layer of visibility with the Office 365 Alerts Mailbox by monitoring tweets from @MSFT365Status.

Microsoft 365 Status only tweets relating to Service Incidents so having visability of these tweets within Outlook comes with many benefits.

Firstly you will need a Twitter account and to have created a connection for that account within Flow. We will use this to authenticate only, after that the email only contains Tweets from Microsoft 365 Status.

Here is the Flow:

It could not be simpler. There are templates for this also but I tend to start from blank and add When a new tweet is posted trigger.

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Call Office 365 Service Communications API and Return a Daily Summary of Message Center Notices – Part 5

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In part 5, we will now look to create the flow that will populate the nested folder called O365 Notices. More information on the folder structure in part 1.

We will base this post mostly around part 3 as they are very similar in what they do but with a few subtle changes and enhancements.

Please familiarise yourself with part 3 as this post will only discuss the changes required in order to achieve an hourly live update summary.

On the My Flows page, select the Flow you have created from part 3 and choose Save as, now rename the flow to O365 Notices – Daily Update (or similar).

The first modification we will make will be at the beginning to the Recurrence trigger.

We will set it to run daily and a nice enhancement is also to set a start time. You can play around with this to suit but in my environment, having an email drop through like this first thing in the morning means that the engineer who does the daily checks knows about any new notices. They can then decide whether Change Management or the Service Desk need to be made aware of anything on the back of the communication.

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PowerShell Office 365: SMTP Email Sent with PowerShell via Office 365

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In this example, I have an extremely simple function called MyCode. The purpose of the function is only to demonstrate us taking any PowerShell output then passing it ot the body of an email and sending that email.

Here is a look at the output:

Once we have the output from MyCode it is all about how we pass that over to the email. That is achieved by using Send-MailMessage.

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