When working with M365 Search, it’s great to follow the principle of least privilege. The ExternalItem.ReadWrite.OwnedBy gives you a way to restrict an application to a single connection. The problem is that the documentation (mslearn and graph permissions) does not shed any light on how to use this permission. In our project we were about to give up and grant the bolder ExternalItem.ReadWrite.All and then we tried a few things and found a way.

I would like to show you my recent hobby project with a raspberry pi, a unicorn phat and the powerful cli-microsoft365: A simple monitoring solution of Microsoft 365 Services. Status of some important services in Microsoft 365 In essence, I put the unicorn phat onto the raspberry pi zero w and wrote this python script: unicorn03_m365.py The python script checks the service status every five minutes and shows it with colors on the unicorn phat.

Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from those ones that were created for a Yammer Community. They both have GROUP#0 as Template. On the actual SPO Site object, there is nothing that you can use to differentiate those. Neither you can use the Office 365 Group information.