Monitor Office 365 with IFTTT
The Internet service IFTTT (IF This Then That) https://ifttt.com can be used for all kinds of incident based actions, from weather changes over facebook updates to stock changes. A very powerful function is its ability to monitor RSS feeds, such as those published for Office 365.
I’m describing two different monitors below but others can of course be made. The only limitation is your creativity and, well, published RSS feeds. The monitors described here will require that you create an IFTTT account.
Office 365 IP Addresses
As you probably know, the IP address scopes for Office 365 change frequently, and if your firewall rules depend on known IP addresses in Office 365 it’s very important that you update those in a timely manner. To get a notification in your inbox (or whereever IFTTT supports) which, for me, works better that just a RSS subscription, create the following recipe.
Create trigger:
- This: RSS Feed
- Trigger: “New feed item”
- Feed URL: https://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/o365ip.rss.xml
Create action
- That: Email
- Action: Send me an email
- Subject: Office 365 IP address change
- Body: Leave the default
Save recipe
Office 365 Service Health Notifications
Detailed descriptions of Office 365 service events can be found in the dashboard on your Office 365 tenant but if you want to be notified whenever there’s a new entry, create the following recipe.
Create trigger:
- This: RSS Feed
- Trigger: “New feed item” OR “New feed item matches” (to filter on specific type of events)
- Feed URL: https://rss.servicehealth.microsoftonline.com/feed/en-US/AA23D93D86BAA98841423D3CEB5FBCA5
Create action
- That: Email
- Action: Send me an email (multiple addresses or text message as option)
- Subject: Office 365 Service Health Notification
- Body: Leave the default
Save recipe
Hope you find this useful… :)