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

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...

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Authors (1)

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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