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PowerShell for Office 365

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127999
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant G Bhoyar Prashant G Bhoyar
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Martin Machado Martin Machado
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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...

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