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Create custom user filter in the admin portal with powershell?
Hi Magnus, have you tried to create a custom filter on the active user page in the new admin center? You can also create a fitler to filter by domains. Would that help with your scenario?
Thanks,
Anne
Anne Michels I have made a custom filter for domains, but it does not return what I need. Some admins unfortunately don't use powershell, so I would prefer the posibility to create a real custom filter, with powershell, on attributes of my choosing, and then make that filter available in the portal.
Hi Magnus,
can you please specify what you expected the filter to return and what it did return for you? Then, our engineering team can look into this as there might be a bug if this is not working as expected.
@all: if you have further feedback on the custom filter capabilities please let me know. what are filter options you'd really like to be added?
I'll then consolidate all your feedback to share it with the engineering team.
Thanks,
Anne
Anne Michels A little background first; we used to have two tenants (one EDU and one normal) but have migrated one into the other. Because of this we now have users from the same on premise domain with different UPN suffix but same mail suffix. When trying to filter on domain we get users from both Office365-domains, not just the domain we choose. I believe this is because the filter uses the mail attribute or something similar that they have in common, not the UPN suffix or the actual Office 365 domain.
That said, I believe it would be impossible to please everyone when designing predefined filter criterias, so I would like the possibility to design real custom filters with and, or, where and any attribute. An editor could be presented in the admin portal or you could let admins publish their own custom powershell filters to their tenant.
To create the custom filter, simply click on "filters" and then "add custom filter"
A problem with the custom fitlers is that they are very limited in functionality. For example, we can' t create a filter to show all of the people that have a Sway license nor can we create a filter to show all of the SharePoint service admins.
- Agree with Vassil, for advanced stuff PowerShell is the way to go
