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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

Managing SharePoint with PowerShell Core

Since Exchange is managed through a remote session, the commands are simply issued from the PowerShell Core instance but executed on the remote machine (the Office 365 remote connection that we set up with New-PSSession).

The following script is very similar to the connection script in Chapter 5, Managing Exchange Online Using PowerShell. To showcase how we can combine Unix and PowerShell commands, we pipe the results of the Get-User command to a file and then use the cat command to show the contents of the result.txt file on the screen:

Last login: Sat Jul 15 16:34:48 2017 from martinp7.localdomain
[psuser@centos7B ~]$ powershell

PowerShell v6.0.0-beta.4
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS /home/psuser> $creds = Get-Credential # prompt user for credentials
Windows PowerShell credential request
Enter your credentials.
User: [email protected]
Password for user [email protected]: ***********...

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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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