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Damian Scoles

Damian Scoles is a ten-time Microsoft MVP specializing in Exchange, Office 365 and PowerShell who has 25 years of IT industry experience. He is based in the Chicago area and started out managing Exchange 5.5 and Windows NT. Over the years he has worked with Office 365 since BPOS and his experience has grown to include Azure AD, Security and Compliance Admin Centers, and Exchange Online. His community outreach includes contributing to TechNet forums, creating PowerShell scripts that can be found on his blogs, writing in-depth PowerShell / Office365 / Exchange blog articles, tweeting, and creating PowerShell videos on YouTube. He has written five PowerShell books and is also actively working on the book "Microsoft 365 Security for IT Pros".

October 2, 2024 - 11 min read

Graph PowerShell SDK – Part 1 of our Graph series

Users will encounter one or two hurdles when they start using Graph. Damian Scoles wrote three...

July 16, 2024 - 14 min read

Privacy Management with PowerShell – Let's look at the core features of Priva!

All you need to know about Privacy Management, privacy management policies, rules, and subject...

June 20, 2024 - 13 min read

PowerShell Secrets – Bulletproof password management

Unlock the secrets to bulletproof password management in PowerShell! Discover how Microsoft's...

May 22, 2024 - 14 min read

Teams Auditing – How to avoid scope creep and Teams sprawl

Do you want to learn more about monitoring Microsoft Teams with PowerShell? Read how to check...

March 6, 2024 - 12 min read

Are you ready for Destination Graph? – Azure AD and MSOnline module are deprecated by March 2024

With MS Online and Azure AD module deprecation, it's time to map previous tasks to new methods. We...

February 27, 2024 - 9 min read

Top ten tasks for Microsoft Purview PowerShell

With Microsoft Purview, you understand and govern data across your entire data estate – how can you...

December 22, 2023 - 9 min read

My top 10 ways to use Teams PowerShell

Here are some very helpful cmdlets (and corresponding explanations) for all Microsoft Teams...

September 14, 2023 - 12 min read

Licensing with Microsoft Graph PowerShell

The Microsoft Graph SDK PowerShell module is replacing two other modules. Learn more about...

July 25, 2023 - 11 min read

How to connect to Exchange Online with certificate based authentication (CBA)

Learn more about Certificate Based Authentication for Exchange Online PowerShell now that Basic...