Introducing sapio365 3.1

Introducing sapio365 3.1 – Get to your data quicker and many other major improvements!

Wondering about what new and exciting features we’ve included in sapio365 version 3.1? Well, we’re happy to announce that we’ve included some major improvements all focused on making the sapio365 user experience even better. Accessing your data is faster and has never been so easy, collaboration security is stronger, you’ll see new Quick GridViews and we’ve added features to make customizing your reports easier. Keep reading below and take a peek at the video to discover all the bells and whistles in sapio365 version 3.1

Check out our video tutorial for the dashboard and grid – watch it as many times as you want.

As requested by some of you, we’ve now made it possible to use certificates in apps instead of the client secret when elevating a session or creating an app session. Always with improved security in mind, we’ve also added an extra security collaboration option to generate and store a secret key in a Key Vault on Azure when setting a tenant.

We’ve replaced MFA-PowerShell-based data features in Users with their MS Graph API equivalent due to Microsoft’s deprecation of that PowerShell module.

You’ll also notice that we’ve merged the ALL JOBS and My Jobs sections into one called Jobs, and we’ve consolidated all scheduled tasks (Jobs, Quick GridView, Summary reports) in one list in the Dashboard so that you know what’s scheduled to run with sapio365.

Check out Quick GridView templates

Have you noticed ‘Need ideas?’ at the top right corner of the Quick GridView? Explore templates and apply one to run or schedule a Quick GridView.

Check out the example on this page.

Get started with Quick GridViews.

Update group members in Entra AND on-premises in the same view

You can now directly copy members of cloud groups like Teams to on-premises synced groups, and vice-versa. There’s no longer a need to use the ‘On-prem Members’ or ‘On-prem Group Memberships’ submodules for membership management unless it’s to manage owners.

Copy users from Teams directly into on-premises synced groups.

Choose which Additional Info you want to load

Loading the kitchen sink when all you want is a user’s manager name is a thing of the past! You now get your information faster by choosing what you want to load on the users AND groups you select.

New Additional Info options in Users and in Groups.

Copy files directly to a OneDrive, Group or SharePoint Site library

You no longer have to download and upload files as separate steps. Use the more effective ‘Copy to’ feature to copy files or an entire folder to a target OneDrive, Team/Group or SharePoint Online site – and it doesn’t matter where you’re copying from! Your target destination can even be a specific folder, including one linked to a channel.

Copy files and folders to a User, a Group or Site.

See which groups and files have sensitivity labels applied

If sensitivity labels are applied to your groups and documents, sapio365 lets you see them. To see the ones applied to your groups, you must load this Additional Info option.

See information on sensitivity labels applied on documents.

Analyze Last-sign information faster

We’ve added a faster way to get Last Sign-in information for all the users in the tenant. Alternatively, you can limit who you want to refresh this information on by using the new ‘Additional Info – Last Sign-In’ load option.

Load Last Sign-in information for all users at once.

See group mailbox properties

You’re now able to retrieve mailbox information for the Microsoft 365 groups you select with the Mailbox Info button. These include quotas, delegates, holds, forwarding addresses and more.

You’re also able to get ‘Send as’ delegates of distribution lists and mail-enable security groups.

Load Mailbox Info for selected groups.

Create a shared Teams channel

You can now create a shared Teams channel. Just be patient with Microsoft when you save the new entries. You may need to refresh a couple of times afterwards!

See when Microsoft 365 groups expire

If you have an expiration policy in effect that is in play for some of your Microsoft 365 groups, you can now see groups’ ‘Expiration Date Time’ when you first launch Groups. You can load more details on selected groups using the ‘Additional Info – Expiration Policy Info’ option.

Groups'  'Expiration Date Time' based on the policy's number of days, each group's creation date or its last renewal.

Remove delay holds on mailboxes

When removing a litigation hold on a mailbox, a delay hold may still be applied on it preventing the deletion of that mailbox. You can now remove ‘Delay hold’ and ‘Delay release hold’ by editing their value to False. You’ll need to retrieve them first with ‘Mailbox Info’ before updating them.

Remove delay holds on mailboxes.

Search the full body content of emails

Looking for a hidden element in the body content of thousands of emails? So easy! We’ve added the entire email body content as a column in the Messages submodule. Just apply a text filter on the Body Content column. (Or use the “Find All” option)

Search the full body content of emails.

Share your license costs with others

If you’ve enabled sapio365 collaboration, you can centralize how you set the unit costs of your Microsoft 365 licenses in specific tenants. You can also set the relevance of certain licenses. Note that you can delegate this responsibility to a non-global admin with the ‘Can set license prices’ sapio365 restriction role.

Assign a user to set license costs for the tenant for everyone using sapio365.

See more details in User Activity Logs

Accessible from the backstage or the shortcut under RBAC, sapio365 User Activity Logs let you see more activities like Job runs and more session details, shared comments and information on when a custom View, Job or Report is shared, unshared or changed.

See more details in sapio365 User Activity Logs.

See who’s using Microsoft 365 apps, Forms, or the Microsoft Graph API

Choose from three more Usage Reports: Microsoft 365 apps usage, Forms Activity and Microsoft Graph API usage. Go ahead! Enrich and combine the first two with other user-based activity reports!

Select new Usage Reports: Microsoft 365 apps usage, Forms Activity and Microsoft Graph API usage.

Conceal or reveal names in reports

You no longer need to wonder why your usage reports have random numbers instead of names! sapio365 shows you the state of the setting which conceals names in reports and the means to turn it off.

Manage the state of the setting which conceals names in reports

Strengthen collaboration security with a Key Vault on Azure

You now have the option to use a secret key generated when setting a tenant and store this generated key in a Key Vault on Azure for added security on sapio365 collaboration. You must be authenticated to access key vaults, and an admin can set strict policies on who can use a particular key.

Store a generated secret key in a Key Vault on Azure.

Authenticate with a certificate instead of a client secret

You can opt to use certificate-based authentication instead of secret-based authentication for your elevated session or app session. For existing sessions, simply click the button to switch.

Switch from secret-based authentication to certificate-based authentication.

Sonia Bounardjian

Sonia is a sapio365 product specialist at Ytria. She was part of the initial development team that created sapio365. When she's not busy helping sapio365 users virtually or writing helpful articles in this blog, she's reorganizing her impressive collection of unused high heels.