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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

How to update user account details


So far we have seen how can we assign/remove bulk licenses for users. In this section, we will see how we can update user information such as DisplayName, FirstName, and LastName.

Let's take an example of a user who recently got married and would like to change their last name, or a user who changed departments. The following command will work if you are storing accounts in the cloud only. If you have directory sync or don't have two-way sync, then you will need to do these kinds of change in local Active Directory:

Set-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -LastName "NewLastName" -DisplayName "First Name New Last Name"

To verify the changes, use the following command:

Get-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName "[email protected]"

You can also check this change out in the Office 365 admin center.