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PowerShell for Office 365

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787127999

Length 222 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Office 365

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Prashant G Bhoyar

Martin Machado

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

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

PowerShell modules

In the previous chapters, we have used files to package scripts, functions to easily reuse our code, and the modules for each of the Office 365 APIs. As your code gets more complex, the logical progression is to implement your own modules.

Advantages of modules are as follows:

Package functionality for distribution and reuse
Provides documentation infrastructure
Can have private and public functions

We will get started by reviewing the available commands to work with modules.

To showcase the advantages of modules, we will create an example. Our module will support a dashboard in SharePoint Online. The dashboard will display daily sales for each of the products in the database.

So that we do not deviate too much from the scope of this chapter, we will use the AdventureWorks schema (http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/55330). This database contains a simple model of products, customers, and sales that we will use to calculate daily sales.

In this scenario, we calculate...

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Authors (1)

Martin Machado

Martin Machado

Martin Machado is an MCSD with over 15 years, experience in designing and implementing systems. He moved into consulting as a way to satisfy his curiosity and interest in diverse IT scenarios and applications very early in his career. He started as an Oracle developer and quickly moved into systems integration with Microsoft technologies. He has a passion for designing complex systems and intricate migrations. Martin currently works for Microsoft as a Senior Consultant in the Modern Applications Division. He has extensive experience helping customers of all sizes and currently spends most of his time designing solutions that take advantage of Azure and Office 365. When he is not working, Martin enjoys the company of his wife, Raquel, and son, David. He also spends time with his soldering gun, creating custom keyboards and other tinkering projects. Martin is originally from Uruguay but currently lives in the Washington DC metro area.

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