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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

Role-based access control


Exchange has one of the most interesting security models within the Office 365 services. Role-based access control (RBAC) was introduced in Exchange 2010 and can be used to control access to individual PowerShell (including access to individual parameters). Not only can you limit what end users can do, but you can also security-trim the Exchange admin center (EAC) since it relies on the Exchange management API.

As part of this introduction to security, we will create a new admin role with a limited scope, which is the typical scenario for delegated administration.

With its level of granularity, the Exchange security model can be somewhat complex at first. As the name suggests, access to commands and features is managed through roles; in addition to roles, there are several other concepts that we will introduce in the following section.

Management roles

Management roles stand at the center of the RBAC model. Because every aspect of Exchange is secured through them, there...