Installing the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell

The next step is to install the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell. You may be wondering why we need to install the Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell. The reason is every Office 365 tenant gets Azure Active Directory by default, and Microsoft stores the user information in Azure Active Directory. To execute PowerShell cmdlets for Office 365, we first need to authenticate against the Azure Active Directory. Let's install the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for PowerShell:

  1. Download the 64-bit setup from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=236297:
  1. After successful installation of the setup, you may find a shortcut named Windows Azure ...

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