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PowerShell for Office 365

By : Martin Machado
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PowerShell for Office 365

By: Martin Machado

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 7. Patterns and Practices PowerShell

SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) is an open source initiative coordinated by the PnP core team, which consists of Microsoft's internal folks and external Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) and provides guidance, samples, reusable components, and documentation for the community https://dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices. PnP contains a library of PowerShell commands (PnP PowerShell) that allows you to perform complex provisioning and artifact management actions for SharePoint. The commands use the client-side object model (CSOM) and can work against both SharePoint Online as well as SharePoint on-premise. In this chapter, we will cover PnP PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint Online.

Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why do we need to learn Office 365 PnP PowerShell?
  • Installing and working with the Office 365 PnP PowerShell
  • Creating your first SharePoint Online site using PnP Provisioning Engine