PowerShell for Office 365

Managing Office 365 with PowerShell

As we discussed in the first chapter, using PowerShell to manage Office 365 is like driving your own car to reach your destination. In this chapter, we will cover the various admin roles that are available for Office 365 and the installation and configuration of the Office 365 admin tools. Once the tools are installed, we will cover the permissions/roles we need to manage Office 365 using PowerShell. Once these steps are done, we will validate our setup by creating a user account using PowerShell in Office 365.

We will cover the following topics:

• Admin roles for Office 365
• Installing and working with Office 365 admin tools
• Creating the first user account in PowerShell