Since the support for getting Teams Presence via Microsoft Graph API came into public preview earlier this year, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/presence-get?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http , many where seeing interesting scenarios for automating Microsoft 365 using this presence status. In fact many, myself included, created different solutions for setting light bulbs etc to reflect the Teams presence. If busy, then red lights, if available green lights, and so on. I have this setup myself using Philips Hue lights, and have created a PowerApp using Flows to control my lights:

A while back I bought my first starter kit of Philips Hue lights and bridge, and since then I’ve bought several more bulbs, lamps, lights strips and more. One of the things I quickly got interested in was how to use the very well developed Hue API (https://developers.meethue.com/develop/hue-api/ ). You need to register and login with a Hue Developer Account, which is free, to be able to explore the API documentation, and for following the steps I describe in this blog post.

In this short blog post I will show you a really simple way to get started authenticating with Oauth to Microsoft Graph using PowerShell Core. As you might know, PowerShell Core is the open-source, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux) edition of PowerShell, with the latest version today being PowerShell 7.0 ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats-new/what-s-new-in-powershell-70?view=powershell-7 ). The latest version of Windows PowerShell is 5.1, and runs side-by-side with PowerShell Core. I’ve been using Windows PowerShell mostly previously, as I’m running Windows 10 and use a lot of PowerShell modules that variously depend on SDKs or other Windows Components, but I’m increasingly using PowerShell Core in scenarios for example with Azure Functions PowerShell ( https://docs.

…..moved trainings and meetings online using the modern collaboration tools I know and love! When I’m not working or fulfilling my community activities as MVP, I spend many evenings and weekends at the soccer field, where I’m coaching and managing a soccer team consisting of 14 year old boys. Due to the Coronavirus situation, as in many countries also Norway has closed it schools, many businesses are either closed or working from home, and in general we are all following the rules of isolating to make sure the virus doesn’t spread.

Today is 18th December and my turn to being part of the awesome Azure Advent Calendar. Thanks to Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie ) and Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots ) for this great initiative. In today’s video, linked below, I’m speaking about Azure Information Protection (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/information-protection/ ). I tried to keep the video under 30 minutes, but there is so much to talk about that I ended up doing a full 45 minute session.

A while back I wrote a blog post on how you could download, install and use a separate Azure AD PIM PowerShell Module for managing Privileged Roles, https://gotoguy.blog/2018/05/22/getting-started-with-azure-ad-pim-powershell-module/ . With the recent update of the AzureADPreview Module, the cmdlets for managing Privileged Roles are now included in the module, so there is no longer required to install a separate module for this! In this blog post I will explain and show how these commands can be used.