Microsoft Places Preview

Andres Bohren
Microsoft Places Preview

Hi All,

Since a few Weeks, Microsoft Places is in Public Preview

Prerequisites:

  • Be assigned the Exchange administrator role to manage Exchange-related configurations for Places.
  • Ensure you have the latest PowerShell (PowerShell 7.x)
  • Verify you have one of the following subscriptions:
    • Microsoft 365 Business Basic
    • Microsoft 365 Business Standard
    • Microsoft 365 Business Premium
    • Microsoft 365 or Office 365 (E1, E3, E5)
    • Microsoft 365 or Office 365 (A1, A3, A5)
    • Microsoft 365 Frontline Worker (F1, F3)

In my opinion, it’s just an enhancement and futher development of the Places API and Get-/Set-Place Commandlets

I’ve blogged about this in the past

PowerShell Module (Alpha Version)

0.32.0

  • Update Get-PlaceV3 & Set-PlaceV3 to support Identity format as Name_GUID for v3 entities

0.31.0

  • Update Get-PlacesSettings, Get-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to get EnablePlacesMobileApp setting
  • Update Set-PlacesSettings, Set-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to set EnablePlacesMobileApp setting
  • Update Get-PlacesSettings, Get-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to get EnablePlacesWebApp setting
  • Update Set-PlacesSettings, Set-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to set EnablePlacesWebApp setting
  • Update Initialize-Places to improve parameters for input file and output folder

0.30.0

  • Update Get-PlacesSettings, Get-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to get EnableBuildings setting
  • Update Set-PlacesSettings, Set-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to set EnableBuildings setting
  • Update Get-PlacesSettings, Get-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to get PlacesFinderEnabled setting
  • Update Set-PlacesSettings, Set-PlacesInternalSettings to be able to set PlacesFinderEnabled setting

0.29.0

  • Update Set-PlacesSettings to be able to set Entitlement setting

I am using the new PSResourceGet here instead of the PowerShellGet commands.

Install PowerShell Module

Find-PSResource MicrosoftPlaces -Prerelease
Install-PSResource MicrosoftPlaces -Prerelease -Scope CurrentUser
Get-InstalledPSResource MicrosoftPlaces -Scope CurrentUser

List the Module Directory - so much dll’s

Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\a.bohren\OneDrive - Icewolf\Dokumente\PowerShell\Modules\MicrosoftPlaces\0.32.0"

List the Commands of the Module

Get-Command -Module MicrosoftPlaces

List Places

Connect-MicrosoftPlaces
Get-PlaceV3 | ft DisplayName, Type, PostalCode, CountryOrRegion, State, City, Street


Get-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -ReadFromPrimary

To enable Places Web app and Places Mobile app for all users, run the following command

Set-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -EnablePlacesMobileApp 'Default:true'
Set-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -EnablePlacesWebApp 'Default:true'

Places can be enabled for specific employees within your Tenant by utilising a mail-enabled security group.

#AAD-Places@icewolfch.onmicrosoft.com #98c058b1-9ef8-4df4-bbe2-2a6f91c3dbd6
#TenantID:46bbad84-29f0-4e03-8d34-f6841a5071ad
Set-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -EnablePlacesWeb 'Default:false,OID:98c058b1-9ef8-4df4-bbe2-2a6f91c3dbd6@46bbad84-29f0-4e03-8d34-f6841a5071ad:true'

Set-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -EnablePlacesMobileApp 'Default:false,OID:98c058b1-9ef8-4df4-bbe2-2a6f91c3dbd6@46bbad84-29f0-4e03-8d34-f6841a5071ad:true'

Detail View of PlacesSettings

Get-PlacesSettings -Collection Places -ReadFromPrimary | fl

Places Web (OWA)

In OWA you can use https://outlook.office.com/places but it takes a while until it’s activated (max 24 Hours)

Once it’s activated it looks like this

Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams you can add the Places App

it takes a while until it’s activated

Once it’s activated it looks like this

Mobile

Currently only a iOS Mobile App Preview is available

Regards
Andres Bohren

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