Validate email address format with PowerShell

Here’s a handy function you can use in your PowerShell scripts when you need to verify that information contains a valid emails address.

function ValidateEmailAddress {
param (
[string]$EmailAddress
)

$emailRegex = ‘^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$’
$isValid = $EmailAddress -match $emailRegex

return $isValid
}

Just call the function and specify the text you want to verify as a parameter like:

ValidateEmailAddress(“director@ciaops.com”)

and you’ll get either True or False.

Need to Know podcast–Episode 324

Along with all the news and updates from the Microsoft Cloud I muse on the fact that the new Microsoft 365 Backup service may have been partially created to solve the storage issues of deleted data in Microsoft 365 environments. Just a theory, but listen along if you like to hear my thoughts.

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Microsoft 365 Insider Round Up –

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-2024-microsoft-365-insider-fugwc/

Microsoft Defender XDR – Monthly news – August 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/monthly-news-august-2024/ba-p/4207232

New onboarding flow to managing Android Enterprise devices with Microsoft Intune –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/new-onboarding-flow-to-managing-android-enterprise-devices-with/ba-p/4206602

Windows 365 at three years: Customer-centric solutions for security, management and productivity –

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/08/01/windows-365-at-three-years-customer-centric-solutions-for-security-management-and-productivity/

New Windows 365 features help provide a more secure workspace –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/new-windows-365-features-help-provide-a-more-secure-workspace/ba-p/4206802

Windows 365 GPU-enabled Cloud PCs now generally available –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-365-gpu-enabled-cloud-pcs-now-generally-available/ba-p/4206600

New 1Password SIEM integration with Microsoft Sentinel now generally available –

https://blog.1password.com/1password-microsoft-sentinel-siem/

Supercharge Your Business: Simplify communications with AI in Microsoft Teams and Teams Phone –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/small-and-medium-business-blog/supercharge-your-business-simplify-communications-with-ai-in/ba-p/4205360

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-backup-blog/microsoft-announces-general-availability-of-microsoft-365-backup/ba-p/4205300

SharePoint roadmap pitstop: July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/sharepoint-roadmap-pitstop-july-2024/ba-p/4204521

What’s new in Copilot | July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/copilot-for-microsoft-365/what-s-new-in-copilot-july-2024/ba-p/4200439

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | July 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-teams-july-2024/ba-p/4205316

Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/29/looking-back-on-fy24-from-copilots-empowering-human-achievement-to-leading-ai-transformation/

Best practices AI and machine learning Microsoft Purview 3 min read New Microsoft whitepaper shares how to prepare your data for secure AI adoption –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/30/new-microsoft-whitepaper-shares-how-to-prepare-your-data-for-secure-ai-adoption/

Use WinGet 1.8 to download Microsoft Store apps –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/use-winget-1-8-to-download-microsoft-store-apps/ba-p/4204522

Monitoring Microsoft Sentinel Reports with Dashboard Hub & Power BI –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/monitoring-microsoft-sentinel-reports-with-dashboard-hub-amp/ba-p/4203870

Looking back on FY24: from Copilots empowering human achievement to leading AI Transformation –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/29/looking-back-on-fy24-from-copilots-empowering-human-achievement-to-leading-ai-transformation/

Announcing quarantine release integration in MDO hunting experience!! –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/announcing-quarantine-release-integration-in-mdo-hunting/ba-p/4198601

Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

After hours

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CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – August

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Join me for the free monthly CIAOPS Need to Know webinar. Along with all the Microsoft Cloud news we’ll be taking a look at Power Automate.

Shortly after registering you should receive an automated email from Microsoft Teams confirming your registration, including all the event details as well as a calendar invite.

You can register for the regular monthly webinar here:

August Webinar Registrations

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The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – August 2024
Thursday 29th of June 2024
11.00am – 12.00am Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

The CIAOPS Need to Know Webinars are free to attend but if you want to receive the recording of the session you need to sign up as a CIAOPS patron which you can do here:

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or purchase them individually at:

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Also feel free at any stage to email me directly via director@ciaops.com with your webinar topic suggestions.

I’d also appreciate you sharing information about this webinar with anyone you feel may benefit from the session and I look forward to seeing you there.

Copilot plugins make all the difference

If you are using the Copilot for Microsoft 365 chat interface as shown above

and you ask it to reference something on the web, such as asking for a summary of a piece of legislation, you’ll probably find that it doesn’t deliver on the results expected as shown above.

This is because, if you want Copilot for Microsoft 365 to use content from the web you’ll need to enable a Plugin. You find these in the lower right of the screen, on the input line as shown above.

When you select the Plugin icon you’ll see the above dialog box appear where you can enable web content.

If you now run the same prompt, you’ll get a much better result as shown above.

Unfortunately, at this stage you have to enable the web content plugin each time you use Copilot for Microsoft 365. I’m still search for a way to have this enabled by default. If you do know how to do that, please let me.

Check mailbox auditing settings using PowerShell

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An important part of good security in Microsoft 365 is to ensure you are capturing all the logs available. Exchange Online has a number of actions that can be audited and some may not be enabled in your environment. The list available and what is enabled by default can be found here:

Manage mailbox auditing

Here is a quick script you can run to display all the audit settings for each mailbox:

Get-OrganizationConfig | Format-List AuditDisabled
$mailboxes=get-mailbox -ResultSize unlimited
foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) {
     write-host “`nMailbox =”,$mailbox.userprincipalname
     write-host (“`— Admin —“)
     $mailbox | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AuditAdmin | Sort-Object
     write-host (“— Delegate —“)
     $mailbox | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AuditDelegate | Sort-Object
     write-host (“— Owner —“)
     $mailbox | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Auditowner | Sort-Object
}

Just compare the list in the link to what you have configured to ensure everything that is available to you is enabled.

To connect to Exchange online prior to running the above code you can use my script:

https://github.com/directorcia/Office365/blob/master/o365-connect-exo.ps1

CIAOPS Brief 20240728

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmr0NZVvXZI

Microsoft Purview Data Governance will be generally available September 1, 2024 –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/16/microsoft-purview-data-governance-will-be-generally-available-september-1-2024/

Migrate ADAL apps to MSAL with enhanced insights –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/migrate-adal-apps-to-msal-with-enhanced-insights/ba-p/4194361

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/azure-monitor-auxiliary-logs

Onyx Sleet uses array of malware to gather intelligence for North Korea –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/25/onyx-sleet-uses-array-of-malware-to-gather-intelligence-for-north-korea/

Zero Trust in the Age of AI: Join our online event to learn how to strengthen your security posture –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/24/zero-trust-in-the-age-of-ai-join-our-online-event-to-learn-how-to-strengthen-your-security-posture/

Try out the new Copilot in Planner (preview) today in the new Microsoft Planner in Teams –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/try-out-the-new-copilot-in-planner-preview-today-in-the-new/ba-p/4193042

ON DEMAND | OneDrive in-depth: Learning content –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/on-demand-onedrive-in-depth-learning-content/ba-p/4193875

The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is now included with Copilot for Microsoft 365 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/viva-insights-blog/the-microsoft-copilot-dashboard-is-now-included-with-copilot-for/ba-p/4198372

Prompts to try in Copilot for Microsoft 365 –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WCK9mIAkU

After hours

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Editorial

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Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week