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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

Installing and working with PnP PowerShell cmdlets


There are three ways to install the PnP: PowerShell cmdlets in the PowerShell Gallery, setup files, and installation scripts. PowerShell Gallery (https://www.powershellgallery.com/) is the approach recommended by the PnP team. There are three different versions of PnP PowerShell cmdlets: SharePoint Online, SharePoint on-premises 2013, SharePoint on-premises 2016. The reason they have separate modules for SharePoint on-premises 2013, 2016 and SharePoint Online is that they have different versions of CSOM libraries/SDKs for SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises 2013 and 2016.

PowerShell Gallery

If you are using Windows 10 or if you have PowerShellGet (https://github.com/powershell/powershellget) installed, you can use the following commands to install the PnP PowerShell cmdlets for different versions of SharePoint:

  • For SharePoint on-premises 2013:

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2013

  • For SharePoint on-premises 2016:

Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2016...