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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

Managing SharePoint with PowerShell Core


Since Exchange is managed through a remote session, the commands are simply issued from the PowerShell Core instance but executed on the remote machine (the Office 365 remote connection that we set up with New-PSSession).

The following script is very similar to the connection script in Chapter 5, Managing Exchange Online Using PowerShell. To showcase how we can combine Unix and PowerShell commands, we pipe the results of the Get-User command to a file and then use the cat command to show the contents of the result.txt file on the screen:

Last login: Sat Jul 15 16:34:48 2017 from martinp7.localdomain
[psuser@centos7B ~]$ powershell

PowerShell v6.0.0-beta.4
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS /home/psuser> $creds = Get-Credential # prompt user for credentials
Windows PowerShell credential request
Enter your credentials.
User: [email protected]
Password for user [email protected]: ***********...