PowerShell for Office 365: Automate Office 365 administrative tasks

✍ Scribed by Machado, Martin;Bhoyar, Prashant G

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Office 365 is a powerful tool to perform common administrative tasks. But there is more that it can do. PowerShell for Office365 helps in automation of repetitive and complex administrative tasks, which can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of your business. This book will walk you through all the aspects of PowerShell and will enable you to get a greater control and extract more from Office 365.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
Why do we need to learn PowerShell for Office 365?
PowerShell is a cmdlet based language with verb-noun syntax
How to pass parameters to cmdlets and storing results as a variable
Parameters
How to get help with PowerShell
What is a module?
What is a pipe?
How PowerShell is an object-oriented language and how to work with objects
Using the if and where statements
Using the for and while loops
Creating your first script. How to change the license for existing usersFormatting data to be used for bulk account management
How to reset account passwords
How to update user account details
Summary
Chapter 4: Managing SharePoint Online Using PowerShell
A brief overview of the SharePoint APIs
The SharePoint web services API
The SharePoint server-side API and PowerShell API
The client-side object model
The REST API
The SharePoint Online API
Setting up your environment
PowerShell execution policy
SharePoint Online Management Shell
Security requirements
SharePoint Online scripting. Scenario 1 --
getting to know the APIScenario 2 --
site collection information
Scenario 3 --
site collection maintenance
Testing site health
Scenario 4 --
personal sites
Scenario 5 --
sharing and external access
Guest access
Scenario 6 --
CSOM scripting using PowerShell
Environment setup
Connecting to SharePoint Online via CSOM
CSOM queries
Scenario 7 --
the REST API in PowerShell
Summary
Chapter 5: Managing Exchange Online Using PowerShell
Connecting to Exchange Online
Exploring the API
Working with Exchange accounts
Creating new mailboxes
Scenario 1 --
a new user mailbox. Scenario 2 --
an unlicensed existing userScenario 3 --
a licensed user without the Exchange service
Scenario 4 --
MailUser
User photos
Email forwarding
Out-of-office reply
Inbox rules
User impersonation
Installing Exchange Web Services
Role-based access control
Management roles
Role groups
Management role assignment
RBAC scenario --
creating a custom administrator
First requirement --
limiting access to PowerShell commands
Second requirement --
limiting access to a group of users
Summary
Chapter 6: Script Automation
PowerShell modules
Module manifest
Script modules
Cmdlets.