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PowerShell for Office 365

You're reading from   PowerShell for Office 365 Automate Office 365 administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127999
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant G Bhoyar Prashant G Bhoyar
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Preface 1. PowerShell Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Office 365 with PowerShell 3. Azure AD and Licensing Management 4. Managing SharePoint Online Using PowerShell 5. Managing Exchange Online Using PowerShell 6. Script Automation 7. Patterns and Practices PowerShell 8. OneDrive for Business 9. PowerShell Core

A brief overview of the SharePoint APIs


While learning SharePoint, you may find alternative solutions using different APIs. Although most will be conceptually useful, some may not be applicable to SharePoint Online. In this section, we will quickly recap what is available and how to leverage it.

The SharePoint web services API

Available since version 1, the SharePoint web services are implemented using SOAP. This protocol is intended for machine-to-machine communication and requires tedious XML message crafting. You can easily identify a web service example as it is hosted under the path /_vti_bin and uses the extension .asmx. The SPServices project offers a JavaScript API that simplifies the use of SharePoint web services. It has many examples and a large community (http://sympmarc.github.io/SPServices/).

Even though web services can used in SharePoint Online, newer APIs are usually easier to use from PowerShell.

The SharePoint server-side API and PowerShell API

The server-side API was the method...

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