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Mastering Office 365 Administration

By : Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
Book Image

Mastering Office 365 Administration

By: Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers

Overview of this book

In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud in order to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast. This book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. It then goes on to cover common management tasks, such as managing users, admin roles, groups, securing Office 365, and enforcing compliance. In the next set of chapters, you will learn about topics including managing Skype for Business Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. In the final section of the book, you will learn how to carry out reporting and monitor Office 365 service health. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement enterprise-level services with Office 365 based on your organization's needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
10
Administering Yammer
Index

Administering via PowerShell


There are PowerShell commands that you can use for both Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. Let's look at the available commands for both.

Administering via PowerShell administration for Office 365 Groups

You can use PowerShell commands to manage your Groups. Here is a list of those available so far:

  • Get-UnifiedGroup
  • New-UnifiedGroup
  • Remove-UnifiedGroup
  • Set-UnifiedGroup
  • Add-UnifiedGroupLinks
  • Get-UnifiedGroupLinks
  • Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks

To run these cmdlets, you will need to connect to Exchange Online and you have to be an Office 365 administrator. You will need to run them on Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 SP 1 or Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, or 2016. You will also need to run Windows PowerShell or Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) as an administrator. If you have Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, these are already installed. Note that the first time you run the cmdlets, you will need to run the following:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Note

If you don't...