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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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Martin Machado Martin Machado
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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

Connecting to Exchange Online


The PowerShell Exchange API differs from others in its distribution form. To connect to Exchange Online, you will need to create and import a PowerShell session. The necessary modules are made available to you through the session. Exchange is the only case where a download is not needed.

Note

If you need to connect using multi-factor authentication, you will need to download the Exchange Online remote PowerShell module for multi-factor authentication. Remember that at the time of writing this, multi-factor accounts cannot be used for unattended scripts.

The main advantage of this delivery method is that updates to modules are delivered whenever a new session is established. The publisher of the modules (Microsoft or the on-premises administrator) can easily update the modules and the scripting user is guaranteed to be running the latest version when establishing a new session.

We can speculate that a driving factor in choosing this approach is the critical importance...

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