Adds new sample "find-obsolete-m365-groups" #6250

tmaestrini · 2024-08-14T21:06:45Z

This script is based on the original article written by Tony Redmond and was requested a long time ago in #2475.
It generates a report of all M365 groups that are possibly obsolete.

Closes #2475

…#2475

milanholemans · 2024-08-14T21:14:41Z

Cool! Thank you @tmaestrini! We'll try to review it ASAP!

milanholemans

Really nice script! I saw a few small things we should take a look at. Also, on my (small) tenant, the script seems to be crashing every time.

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/assets/sample.json

milanholemans

Did another review and zoomed in a bit on the error I was getting @tmaestrini.

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

tmaestrini · 2024-09-09T12:20:03Z

Did a bunch of changes, @milanholemans – thanks for your review. 🙏 I've really appreciated it.

milanholemans · 2024-09-09T13:27:45Z

Did a bunch of changes, @milanholemans – thanks for your review. 🙏 I've really appreciated it.

When ready, you can hit the "ready for review" at the bottom of the page, which I just did for you :)

tmaestrini · 2024-09-18T20:37:54Z

Hey @milanholemans, sorry for my confusion on my last commit (#b2ae47f). I wanted to open a new PR related to #6272.

tmaestrini · 2024-09-19T20:06:38Z

@milanholemans This one still waits for a review / approval.

milanholemans

Hi @tmaestrini, I was able to do another review and made some additional remarks. Also the script is still failing on my tenant, so let's try to get that fixed first.

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

milanholemans · 2024-09-20T19:08:38Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+    $guests = $users | Where-Object { $_.id -in $Script:Guests.id }
+
+    # Modify the $members list to only contain users that are not in the $owners list
+    $members = Compare-Object $members $owners -PassThru


This piece of code is still failing for all company groups which have no owners and no members.

You're absolutely right. This would be the case, when every group member has left the company. In this case, any comparison would be obsolete.

As mentioned in the previous review. When you have an all company group, it doesn't have any owners or members.

@milanholemans That's why I've implemented this on line 170:

if($null -ne $owners -and $null -ne $members) { $members = Compare-Object $members $owners -PassThru }

Doesn't it show up in the code?

The last time I reviewed it wasn't there. I'll recheck in my next review.

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

… console with unnecessary output

…s obsolete

tmaestrini · 2024-09-25T23:27:15Z

Hey @milanholemans, did a bunch of updates… 😄 Hopefully the script is not failing anymore on your tenant.
Tell me what you think. Have a good night! 😄

tmaestrini · 2024-10-15T05:50:10Z

Any news on this? Do you want me to change anything?

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T07:25:26Z

Hi @tmaestrini will try to do another review soon. Due to lack of time this has not happened yet.

milanholemans

Seems like I'm still struggling to make the script work on my tenant. Let's have another look at it.

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T21:37:09Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+    $tStamp = (Get-Date).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
+    if ($TestPath -ne $true) {
+      New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $Script:Path | Out-Null
+      Write-Host "Will create file in $($Script:Path): M365GroupsReport-$tStamp.csv" -ForegroundColor Yellow


I'm getting an error:

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. : 'C:\Report\M365GroupsReport-2024-10-15 23:32:22.csv'

Obviously, colons are not supported as characters in Windows. Let's strip the file name from illegal characters.

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T21:40:14Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+
+    $spoSite = $Script:TeamSites | Where-Object { $_.GroupId -eq "/Guid($($Group.Reference.id))/" }
+    $spoWeb = m365 spo web get --url $spoSite.Url | ConvertFrom-Json
+    if ($spoWeb.LastItemUserModifiedDate -lt $WarningDate) {


As discussed before, let's remove the spo web get request and just check the date on the spoSite object to avoid permission issues.

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T21:55:58Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+
+    if ($owners.Count -eq 0) {
+      Write-Host "  → potentially obsolete (abandoned group: no owner)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+      $reason = "Low user count"


Suggested change

$reason = "Low user count"

$reason = "Low owner count"

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T21:59:05Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+      return
+    }
+
+    if ($owners.Count -le 1 -and ($members.Count + $guests.Count) -eq 0) {


Does it matter whether there's only 1 owner? I think every group without a member has some problems no? Let's also personalize the reasons, right now we're always logging "low user count".

milanholemans · 2024-10-15T22:09:26Z

docs/docs/sample-scripts/entra/find-obsolete-m365-groups/index.mdx

+    try {
+      $Global:ObsoleteGroups.Add($Group.Reference.id, $Group)
+    }
+    catch { Write-Information "Group was already added to the list of potentially obsolete groups" }


Suggested change

catch { Write-Information "Group was already added to the list of potentially obsolete groups" }

catch { }

tmaestrini · 2024-10-22T21:21:32Z

Due to a change on my fork (which caused a mess in PR #6445), I had to rename the old 'main' branch. Therefore this PR was closed automatically. Could you please reopen it, @milanholemans – or should I implement the changes and make another PR out of it?

milanholemans · 2024-10-22T21:30:40Z

I cannot reopen it since your branch doesn't exist anymore.

tmaestrini · 2024-10-22T21:38:15Z

So, I will make another PR out of it.

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Bug report: Retrieving members for M365 group via entra m365group user list leads to unexpected result #6382

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fix error related to comparison in case that group is empty

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	catch { Write-Information "Group was already added to the list of potentially obsolete groups" }
	catch { }

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