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Microsoft AzureOffice365System Administrator

Updating Azure Application SAML Roles in Microsoft Graph

Something on my list of things to do has been to update SAML roles for an application setup a few years ago before Microsoft simplified certain aspects of SAML applications. After tickets with Microsoft support that ended up escalated but with no assistance from them, I found that these roles could be updated via Microsoft Graph. Let’s dive in.

I have my application ID and have requested the body via GET below and the URL https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/servicePrincipals/{ID} (without the curly brackets surrounding your ID)

In the JSON Response Preview, you can see the appRoles listed for the application. After using my Google-FU and not finding any documentation on this at all, I experimented and after trial and error, figured out how to update the approles while keeping existing appRoles.

First, you’ll need a unique GUID for the new approle. In Powershell, you can run new-guid to generate a new GUID for your new approle(s).

Next, copy your entire existing Approle digest from the Response Preview to your editor of choice; I like Visual Studio Code. This means everything from the approles: [ line to the bracket at the end of the last role.

Add a new approle (you can copy a previously used one), paste in your GUID, and change the description, displayname, and value. Because this is JSON, you’ll need to add a comma to the curly bracket for the previous approle.

Once you’re done editing your approles, go back to Microsoft Graph. Where before you chosen to GET , now select PATCH. Keep the URL the same.

Be sure to validate the JSON (you may need to add curly brackets to the beginning and end of the JSON file) using any free online tool or Visual Studio Code. Paste the JSON code in to the Request Body in Microsoft Graph and hit Run Query.

If everything went well, you should see a green OK!

Office365Powershell

Disabling IMAP and POP Enabled for Mailboxes in Office365 Using Powershell V2 Module

I recently wrote about Microsoft’s new Powershell V2 Module and locating IMAP and POP enabled mailboxes using it. Now we’re going to get to disabling IMAP and POP to keep things secure! As of the date of this post (January, 2020) there are no new V2 modules to Set-CASMailbox, so we’ll have to use a V1 command. This will disable IMAP and POP across the tenant:

Get-EXOCASMailbox -Filter {IMAPEnabled -eq $True -or POPEnabled -eq $True} | Set-CASMailbox -ImapEnabled $false -PopEnabled $false

If you’d like to see a list of who will have the settings applied, you can add -whatif to the end

Microsoft ExchangeOffice365Powershell

Locating IMAP and POP Enabled from Mailboxes in Office365 Using Powershell V2 Module

Using Microsoft’s recently released Exchange Online PowerShell V2 Module, we can easily find IMAP and POP from mailboxes in Office365 via Powershell.

Finding IMAP and POP Mailboxes, Powershell V2: 

Get-EXOCASMailbox -Filter {IMAPEnabled -eq $True -or POPEnabled -eq $True}

If you’d like to disable, take a look at my next post about doing that!

Office365Powershell

Using Microsoft’s New Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module

Microsoft recently released a preview of their new Exchange Online Powershell module. One of the highlights is that it has built-in support for MFA-enabled admin accounts. One of my biggest pet peeves was that Microsoft made you jump through hoops and poorly supported MFA with their V1 module.

To get started, install the module from the Powershell gallery via

Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement

Note only Powershell 5 is supported, with Powershell Core and 7 support coming… soon.

The commands have changed too. Get-Mailbox is still able to be run, but the new command is Get-EXOMailbox, which yields output more efficiently then its predecessor according to Microsoft, by changing what properties get shown and not including blank properties.

You can now connect via “Connect-ExchangeOnline” which creates an MFA-capable prompt. After you sign-in, you’re shown the new cmdlets!

Microsoft ExchangeOffice365Powershell

Office365 Powershell One-Liner: Find Emails Stuck in Users’ Outboxes

I wrote this quick and dirty one-liner to help monitor and find stuck emails in Exchange / Office365 mailboxes across a tenant and export the list as a CSV.

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "Outbox" -and $_.ItemsInFolder -gt '0' } | Select-Object Identity, FolderType, ItemsinFolder, FolderSize | Export-CSV "C:\CSVs\Outbox.csv"