Powershell Office 365
Connecting to powershell is a simple process where you install the required software and then connect to your microsoft 365 organization.
Powershell office 365. It allows you to automate a lot of tasks by writing your own scripts or change settings with a single command. This article explains how. The web admin interface for office 365 is very good but there are times when powershell is more suited.
Powershell for microsoft 365 is a powerful management tool that complements the microsoft 365 admin center. For example you can use powershell automation to easily manage multiple user accounts and licenses and to create reports. Using windows powershell to manage office 365 may seem odd at first.
After all cloud solutions promise simplicity and ease of use adjectives rarely used in connection with windows powershell. But bear with me. The exchange online powershell v2 module abbreviated as the exo v2 module uses modern authentication and works with multi factor authentication mfa for connecting to all exchange related powershell environments in microsoft 365.
Many of the posts on this blog and others will require you to connect to office 365 with powershell. Powershell for microsoft 365 lets you manage your microsoft 365 settings from the command line. When working with office 365 using powershell you ll probably have to use two different modules.
This article applies to both microsoft 365 enterprise and office 365 enterprise. There are two ways to connect to office 365 in powershell. So this post shows you how it is done and the problems you might come up against.
Powershell is a great way to manage your office 365 environment. You ll use azure active directory powershell for graph with the module name azuread and azure active directory module for windows powershell with the module name of msonline. Now the first step of course is to connect powershell to office 365.