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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

User impersonation


As seen in the previous section, some activities can be executed only by the account being targeted. In the preceding example, not even a global administrator can create an inbox rule that uses text messaging (more on security on the next section). However, we have the option of user impersonation. At the time of writing this, user impersonation can be used only through EWS.

EWS pre-dates PowerShell and Office 365 and can be used for system integration and application development, hence its implementation of user impersonation. Fortunately, once we get familiar with the API, using EWS can be leveraged in our PowerShell scripts.

Installing Exchange Web Services

EWS can be downloaded from the Microsoft website (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42951); the project is open source and is available on GitHub (https://github.com/OfficeDev/ews-managed-api). The installation is straightforward and will copy the files to Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web...