Articles about aspects of the Powershell cmdlets or the Powershell modules which we need to access the cloud services.
This blog post shows you how to build a GUI object picker for Azure AD user account objects. In Powershell and with the help of the Windows Forms .NET library. In many cloud-related PowerShell scripts, you need to do something with a certain O365 user account. So usually, you edit your script and type in […]
This is a short article about how to install and use the Exchange Online PowerShell module. This is the module called ExchangeOnlineManagement. It provides all the cmdlets like ‘Get-Mailbox’, ‘Enable-MailContact’, or ‘New-DistributionGroup’. If you want to script with Exchange Online mail objects, as well as other important cloud objects like Unified Groups (‘O365 Groups’), then […]
If you are leveraging an AADC server to sync your accounts to Azure AD, one of the most important technical properties is the source anchor. This is the value that matches the on-prem account with the cloud account. The nature of this match was discussed here in detail in another blog post: The ImmutableID Match […]
PowerShell scripting with the Microsoft Graph API is a nice thing because you can access some pieces of information that you cannot gather elsewhere with scripting. If you never did it, please visit the detailed blog post which describes Graph Scripting for Beginners :). What has always annoyed me is Graph’s habit of only returning […]
Microsoft recommends the Graph API for access to Azure AD elements – but that means web development, isn’t it? Well – not quite … there are certainly ways for PowerShell scripting with the Graph API. As already mentioned in my general blog post about the various scripting APIs for accessing Azure AD and Office 365, […]
This is a short article about how to install and use the AzureAD PowerShell module. This is the module that provides all the cmdlets like “Get-AzureADUser”.If you want to script with O365 and Azure objects (users, groups…), then AzureAD is one of the important modules for you. There is another article on this blog with […]
This is a short article about how to install and use the MSOnline PowerShell module – also called the MSOL module, because it provides all these cmdlets like “Get-MSOLUser”. If you want to script with O365 and Azure objects (users, groups…), then MSOL is one of the important modules for you. There is another article […]
If you start with scripting O365 or Azure AD, you soon realize that PowerShell is your choice. But even then you have to choose the module you use to connect to the cloud and access the objects. Or is there even a possibility to do it without any module, just knowing the right API calls […]