Of the more recent changes which improve upon and simplify the overall management experiences there are two primary concepts worth calling out. To access Exchange Online and/or the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center a completely different approach was used than the rest of the PowerShell modules used for managing services to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Skype for Business Online, or Teams. While most are updated to use basically the same process there are a few outliers. Now though, most of the various services in Office 365 are easier to connect to via PowerShell for management purposes, but they are still not all using the same methodology and installation processes. There even use to be a separate download required simply to authenticate into Office 365 first using the original Organizational ID (Org ID) online authentication model. The older approaches utilized the original requirements of manually downloading and installing several different PowerShell modules via traditional Windows Installer packages which were created for connecting to services like Lync Online and Exchange Online. They range from examples like an older blog post written specifically for Lync Online to new, updated guidance from Microsoft on how to access multiple services in a single console. There are several different articles available providing guidance for connecting to the various Microsoft Office 365 Online services via PowerShell. Covered are a host of one-time installation steps needed to prepare a single workstation with the requisite software as well as the individual PowerShell cmdlets repeatedly used to invoke access to each service when management processes need to be run.īefore jumping into how to connect a single PowerShell window to all of these UC-related services online it is important to understand the different services and what has changed over the years in terms of PowerShell behavior. This article is intended to share a streamlined approach for managing Office 365 services via PowerShell which are pertinent to the Microsoft UC platform, namely Exchange Online, Skype for Business Online, and Microsoft Teams.
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