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Microsoft  Office 365 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Office 365 Administration Cookbook Enhance your Office 365 productivity with recipes to manage and optimize its apps and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551230
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nate Chamberlain Nate Chamberlain
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration 2. Chapter 2: Office 365 Identity and Roles FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Administering Office 365 with PowerShell 4. Chapter 4: Managing Exchange Online 5. Chapter 5: Setting Up and Configuring Microsoft Search 6. Chapter 6: Administering OneDrive 7. Chapter 7: Configuring the Power Platform 8. Chapter 8: Administering SharePoint Online 9. Chapter 9: Managing Microsoft Teams 10. Chapter 10: Configuring and Managing Users in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) 11. Chapter 11: Understanding the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center 12. Chapter 12: Deploying Data Loss Prevention and eDiscovery 13. Chapter 13: Monitoring Office 365 Apps and Services 14. Chapter 14: Appendix – Office 365 Subscriptions and Licenses
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Disabling a user

When a user's access needs to be temporarily disabled so that the user cannot access Office 365 with those credentials but the data and user setup are not lost, an admin does not need to completely remove or unlicense a user. Instead, simply blocking the user's credentials will suffice. Let's disable a user in this recipe.

Getting ready

Using the skills learned in the Setting up the PowerShell environment recipe from Chapter 1, Office 365 Setup and Basic Administration, connect to your Office 365 tenant via PowerShell.

How to do it…

Update the UserPrincipalName parameter to the appropriate user, and then run the following code snippet:

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -BlockCredential $true

How it works…

You've just disabled a user in a single step. The BlockCredential property on a user's profile will stop a user from being able to gain access with the blocked credentials...

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