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PowerShell for Office 365

By : Martin Machado

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PowerShell for Office 365

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By: Martin Machado

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Overview of this book

While most common administrative tasks are available via the Office 365 admin center, many IT professionals are unaware of the real power that is available to them below the surface. This book aims to educate readers on how learning PowerShell for Offi ce 365 can simplify repetitive and complex administrative tasks, and enable greater control than is available on the surface. The book starts by teaching readers how to access Offi ce 365 through PowerShell and then explains the PowerShell fundamentals required for automating Offi ce 365 tasks. You will then walk through common administrative cmdlets to manage accounts, licensing, and other scenarios such as automating the importing of multiple users,assigning licenses in Office 365, distribution groups, passwords, and so on. Using practical examples, you will learn to enhance your current functionality by working with Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online using PowerShell. Finally, the book will help you effectively manage complex and repetitive tasks (such as license and account management) and build productive reports. By the end of the book, you will have automated major repetitive tasks in Office 365 using PowerShell.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

PowerShell Fundamentals

Why do we need to learn PowerShell for Office 365?

PowerShell is a cmdlet based language with verb-noun syntax

How to pass parameters to cmdlets and storing results as a variable

How to get help with PowerShell

How PowerShell is an object-oriented language and how to work with objects

Using the if and where statements

Using the for and while loops

Creating your first script

Summary

Managing Office 365 with PowerShell

Admin roles for Office 365

Installing and working with the Office 365 admin tools

Creating the first user account in PowerShell

Summary

Azure AD and Licensing Management

Common administrative cmdlets that are used for managing accounts and licensing

How to change the license for existing users

Formatting data to be used for bulk account management

How to reset account passwords

How to update user account details

Summary

Managing SharePoint Online Using PowerShell

A brief overview of the SharePoint APIs

Setting up your environment

SharePoint Online scripting

Summary

Managing Exchange Online Using PowerShell

Connecting to Exchange Online

Working with Exchange accounts

User impersonation

Role-based access control

Summary

Script Automation

PowerShell modules

Code signing

Active Directory Certificate Services

Summary

Patterns and Practices PowerShell

Why do we need to learn PnP PowerShell?

Installing and working with PnP PowerShell cmdlets

Using Windows Credential Manager with PnP PowerShell

Summary

OneDrive for Business

Feature configuration

Personal site management

Data migration

Summary

PowerShell Core

Installing PowerShell Core

Remoting on PowerShell Core

Managing SharePoint with PowerShell Core

Managing SharePoint Online from PowerShell Core

Summary

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Creating the first user account in PowerShell

If you have an account in Office 365 (even if there is no license assigned to it), using that account you can connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. The operations or cmdlets that you can execute vary depending on the permissions and licenses assigned to that account.

PowerShell cmdlets for Office 365 use the following pattern:

<Verb>-Msol<noun>

For example, take a look at this:

Get-MsolUser

Here, MSOL = Microsoft Online.

To find out about all the commands, use Get-Command *Msol*.

Once the connection is established successfully, let's create a new user account. To create the user account, the account that we will be using needs to be part of the global administrator role or the user management role.