Microsoft 365 – Interview preparation – 4

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Greetings for the day!!!

Preparing for Microsoft 365 continues. Today sharing 4th set of questions and answers.

Q 1. What is Purchase services page in the Microsoft 365 admin center ?

• The Purchase services page appears under the Billing group in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
• The Purchase services page in the Microsoft 365 admin center is the mechanism for organizations to integrate with customer apps. (eg. – Project Online, Visio, Scheduler, and Microsoft Stream.)

• The Purchase services page in Microsoft 365 is a centralized location. Organizations can purchase new products and add-on services for their Microsoft Entra tenant there.

Q 2. Which Entra roles can change the organization-level external sharing setting for SharePoint and OneDrive?

• Global Administrators
• SharePoint Administrators

Q 3. What is External Sharing feature of SharePoint and OneDrive?

• The external sharing features of SharePoint and OneDrive allow users in our organization to share content with people outside the organization. These people include partners, vendors, clients, or customers.
• We can also use external sharing to share between licensed users on multiple Microsoft 365 subscriptions if our organization has more than one subscription.
• External sharing is turned on by default for your entire SharePoint and OneDrive environment.

Q 4. How to turn on the auditing for my organization ?

• To turn on auditing for our organization, we can run the next command in Exchange Online PowerShell

Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -UnifiedAuditLogIngestionEnabled $true

Q 5. What is “Request File” feature in OneDrive?

• With the file request feature in OneDrive, we can choose a folder. Other users can upload files to it using a link that we send them.
  • We have detailed article for the same. Microsoft 365 administration – OneDrive – exploring feature – Request files – study material for – Exam MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/01/18/m365-admin-onedrive-file-request-feature-ms-102-microsoft-365-administrator/

Q 6. How to set “Expiration date” for SharePoint Site?

• We have an option of PowerShell.
• We can use Set-SPOSite CMDLET.

Set-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing -OverrideTenantAnonymousLinkExpirationPolicy $true -AnonymousLinkExpirationInDays 15

• We have two attributes
  • OverrideTenantAnonymousLinkExpirationPolicy
  • AnonymousLinkExpirationInDays

Q 7. What is Unified Audit Logging feature ?

• Unified Audit Logging is a feature in Microsoft 365.
• This feature allows us to track and record user and admin activities across various services and applications.
• Applications such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Power BI, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• With Unified Audit Logging, we can
  • monitor and investigate security incidents,
  • compliance violations
  • and operational issues.
• You can also generate audit reports and alerts based on specific events or criteria.
• The Unified Audit Log provides a centralized collection of audit events related to Microsoft 365.
• It encompasses activities such as file downloads from SharePoint or OneDrive, user sign-ins, and administrative actions.

Q 8. How we can access Audit Logs?

• We can access the audit log through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

• We have detailed article to navigate Microsoft Purview.
  • Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration- Microsoft Purview Portal – How to navigate – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/05/04/small-tricks-and-tips-microsoft-365-administration-microsoft-purview-portal-how-to-navigate/

Q 9 . What activities Audit Log captures? Enlist few?

• Application administration activities
• Microsoft Defender for Identity activities
• Custom Searches

Q 10. How to verify auditing status for my organization / in my tenant?

• To verify that auditing is turned on for our organization, we can run the next command in Exchange Online PowerShell

Get-AdminAuditLogConfig | Format-List UnifiedAuditLogIngestionEnabled

• A value of True for the UnifiedAuditLogIngestionEnabled property indicates that auditing is turned on.
• A value of False indicates that auditing isn’t turned on.

REFERENCES

• Microsoft 365 – Navigating to Microsoft 365 admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/11/17/microsoft-365-navigating-to-microsoft-365-admin-center/
• Microsoft 365 administration – OneDrive – exploring feature – Request files – study material for – Exam MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/01/18/m365-admin-onedrive-file-request-feature-ms-102-microsoft-365-administrator/
• Small Tricks and Tips – Microsoft 365 administration- Microsoft Purview Portal – How to navigate – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/05/04/small-tricks-and-tips-microsoft-365-administration-microsoft-purview-portal-how-to-navigate/

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