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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 9. PowerShell Core

In this chapter, we will preview the next version of PowerShell. You might be surprised to know that there are no major updates in terms of syntax or functionality. Instead, Microsoft has focused on making sure that the upcoming version of PowerShell (Core) is:

  • Free
  • Open source
  • Cross-platform

Note

The previous version of PowerShell will continue to be supported and patched, but no future enhancements are expected. PowerShell Core is the new cross platform implementation and its first version will be PowerShell 6.

PowerShell has become the cornerstone for scripting and instrumentation in the Microsoft stack. Many partners and competitors have also embraced it for their APIs (for example, VMWare). Having cemented PowerShell as the scripting platform of choice for their own products, Microsoft is now going for what is left of the market. The promise is that PowerShell will run in any environment and provide administrators with a standard language and patterns for management...