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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

SharePoint Online scripting

To be able to connect to your tenant, you will use the Connect-SPOService command.
The command takes the URL of the admin site of your tenant and the credentials for the session.
The admin URL is usually of the yourdomain-admin.sharepoint.com form, but you can get the actual URL by going to the site through the Office 365 admin center:

The prompt is displayed when connecting to SharePoint Online. Not all the APIs support it, but SharePoint Online will prompt for credentials, allowing you to go through the MFS workflow if needed.

If you run the command without parameters, the credential prompt will be used.

It is good practice to store credentials in a variable, as it is often reused when connecting to other APIs.
$credentials = Get-Credential Connect-SPOService `
-Url https://mytest321-admin.sharepoint.com `
-Credential $credentials

The Connect-SPOService...

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