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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

Active Directory Certificate Services


Even though self-signed certificates are very practical, when working within an organization, it is very common to take advantage of an internal CA. As a script author, you will have to go through a request approval process before you can obtain a signing certificate.

Prerequisites

In Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), certificates can be issued and managed through certificate templates. Templates define the purpose, extensions, private key access, security, and many other features for issued certificates. By default, the code signing certificate template is not available in the template list:

Manage available templates through the CA console (certsrv). You will have to add the code signing template as it is not listed by default.

The Certificate Templates node in the certsrv console is simply a list of available templates. You can add and remove templates, but their properties are managed in the Certificate Templates snap-in of the Microsoft...