Tag: Distribution group

The new Get-MessageTraceV2 cmdlet can fetch 90 days of message trace data, which means that we can check for inactive distribution lists using data for the last 90 days instead of being constrained to the last 10 days. Distribution lists are still important to Exchange Online and Microsoft 365, and it’s good to know which distribution lists are in active use (and how much traffic they get) and which are not. All done with PowerShell.

A recent discussion about reporting changes to Microsoft 365 groups provoked the question about how to report distribution list changes. The answer is that the same structure can be taken in a PowerShell script to fetch and report data, including the audit records containing the information about the changes, but the actual code is very different. Distribution lists Exchange Online objects and not Entra ID groups…