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PowerShell for Office 365

PowerShell for Office 365: Automate Office 365 administrative tasks

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PowerShell for Office 365

Managing Office 365 with PowerShell

As we discussed in the first chapter, using PowerShell to manage Office 365 is like driving your own car to reach your destination. In this chapter, we will cover the various admin roles that are available for Office 365 and the installation and configuration of the Office 365 admin tools. Once the tools are installed, we will cover the permissions/roles we need to manage Office 365 using PowerShell. Once these steps are done, we will validate our setup by creating a user account using PowerShell in Office 365.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Admin roles for Office 365
  • Installing and working with Office 365 admin tools
  • Creating the first user account in PowerShell

Admin roles for Office 365

Office 365 is a premium Software as a Service (SaaS) offering from Microsoft; Microsoft has done an excellent job of formulating different roles for administrators. Depending on the subscription, you may not see some of the administrator roles. As of today ( July 2017), the following are the different types of roles available. The reason for the as of today is that, ever since its launch, Microsoft has been adding new services to Office 365 consistently.

Now let's look at the various administrator roles:

  • Global administrator: This is the highest privileged role. The account you used to sign up for the Office 365 subscription gets this role automatically. The global administrator has access to all the administrative features in the Office 365 suite of services in your plan. For example: create, edit, delete users/groups, manage domains, and so on...

Installing and working with the Office 365 admin tools

In this section, we will cover the installation and configuration of the Office 365 admin tools.

Office 365 is a premier SaaS offering from Microsoft, and they host the services for us. We don't have direct access to the servers that host Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and so on. So, we need to use the remote management tool. PowerShell for Office 365 is a remote management tool. Even though the new Microsoft under Satya Nadella's leadership has embraced open source technologies, in order to manage Office 365 using PowerShell, we need a 64-bit Windows machine as of today. I expect this to change in future, and Microsoft may add support for Linux distributions as well. When Office 365 was launched in 2013, the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell was supported on 32-bit machines...

Creating the first user account in PowerShell

If you have an account in Office 365 (even if there is no license assigned to it), using that account you can connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. The operations or cmdlets that you can execute vary depending on the permissions and licenses assigned to that account.

PowerShell cmdlets for Office 365 use the following pattern:

<Verb>-Msol<noun>

For example, take a look at this:

Get-MsolUser

Here, MSOL = Microsoft Online.

To find out about all the commands, use Get-Command *Msol*.

Once the connection is established successfully, let's create a new user account. To create the user account, the account that we will be using needs to be part of the global administrator role or the user management role.

Ensuring user account...

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the different administrative roles available in Office 365. We covered the steps we need to take in order to set up the Office 365 admin tools. We covered the steps that we need to take to connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. Finally, we tested the setup by creating a new user account in Office 365. In the next chapter, we will walk users through common administrative cmdlets that are used for managing accounts and licensing.

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Key benefits

  • -Master the fundamentals of PowerShell to automate Office 365 tasks.
  • -Easily administer scenarios such as user management, reporting, cloud services, and many more.
  • -A fast-paced guide that leverages PowerShell commands to increase your productivity.

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

The book is aimed at sys admins who are administering office 365 tasks and looking forward to automate the manual tasks. They have no knowledge about PowerShell however basic understanding of PowerShell would be advantageous.

What you will learn

  • •Understand the benefits of scripting and automation and get started using
  • Powershell with Office 365
  • • Explore various PowerShell packages and permissions required to manage
  • Offi ce 365 through PowerShell
  • • Create, manage, and remove Office 365 accounts and licenses using
  • PowerShell and the Azure AD
  • • Learn about using powershell on other platforms and how to use Office 365 APIs through remoting
  • • Work with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online using PowerShell
  • • Automate your tasks and build easy-to-read reports using PowerShell

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I'm fairly new to the office 365 administration and have been looking for a book to give me an edge. Based on my friend's recommendation, I purchased this book. I've learned a lot on how to use PowerShell to automate most of my daily tasks. The content is comprehensive and clear. The examples are very practical and easy to follow. The chapter on certificate management helped me to resolve my challenge with SAML rollover key.
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This book is very elementary in showing Powershell scripts for O365 Administration. It spends a lot of words talking about theory and background information but not much time showing actual Powershell scripts. It appears to be written for the beginning O365 Administrator, so for an intermediate level Admin it is NOT Very useful. It shows very basic steps like creating a mailbox, applying an O365 license, setting some basic parameters, etc. I was hoping for a book full of Powershell script examples for the Exchange Online, O365 Groups, Mailbox and Shared Mailbox administration but this book is not it. In my opinion, not worth the cost so I returned it.
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