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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 8. OneDrive for Business

In the early days, SharePoint was positioned as a great replacement for file shares. SharePoint addressed some important weaknesses of file shares: versioning, the recycle bin, check in/check out, history/auditing, the web interface, and custom metadata features, to name a few. Fast forward to the present, SharePoint and other content management system products have effectively replaced file shares in the collaboration space. Yet, file shares still remain very relevant to personal storage, although you would hardly qualify OneDrive for Business as only a file share (at least not one from 10 years ago). Officially defined as file-hosting products, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business still offer the convenience of operating system integration of file shares while adopting important features from the CMS world.

Note

Recently, Microsoft has also rolled out OneDrive for Office 365 groups, making the case for small group collaboration through OneDrive.

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