Essential PowerShell for Office 365: Managing and Automating Skills for Improved Productivity

© Vlad Catrinescu 2018

Vlad CatrinescuEssential PowerShell for Office 365 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3129-6_2

2. Managing Users and Licenses

Vlad Catrinescu¹ 

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Greenfield Park, Québec, Canada

 

In this chapter, we will learn how to use PowerShell to connect to Office 365 and Azure Active Directory from a client computer. We will also learn the cmdlets available to create, modify, or delete users from Office 365. Furthermore, we will go over how to view our available licenses, how to assign a license to a user, and how to create a custom license if we don’t want all the services in our subscription!

Connecting to Office 365

One of the first things we will have to do to manage our users and licenses is connect to Office 365 from PowerShell. In ...