Ben Whitmore

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility MVP, Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert and Software Engineer @PatchMyPC

Connect to SharePoint Online using PowerShell

So you want to do some PowerShell stuff in SharePoint Online. You will need the “SharePoint Online Global Administrator” permission to perform the connection. Before we do that, lets check if we have the SharePoint Online Management Shell already installed. 1. Launch PowerShell in Administrative mode and run:-

2. If it is not listed,

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Intune Conditional Access – Policy Documentation Template

Being able to document your configuration changes in Office 365 is just as important as documenting changes in your traditional on premises systems. The Azure blade layout brings a nice fluidity to making changes but it creates a real challenge for those of us seeking to document the changes we make. I have made available

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O365 – How to add a mail.onmicrosoft.com smtp address using PowerShell

So you are on-boarding user mailboxes to Exchange Online and your user does not have a <domain>.mail.onmicrosoft.com smtp address. STOP. Your mailbox migration will fail without it. (Maybe you know this and this is why you are here 🙂 ) If you used the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard, by default, <domain>.mail.onmicrosoft.com) is added as a

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Signing PowerShell Scripts for an SCCM App Detection Method

In this blog post we will look at signing the PowerShell scripts we use in the “App Detection Method” when distributing apps with ConfigMgr. The PowerShell Execution Policy can be modified in Client Settings to allow ConfigMgr to execute unsigned scripts. If your environment needs to be a bit tighter with script execution and you

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Office 365 Migration – Adding Additional UPNs

In my previous post office-365-migration-user-attribute-discovery-export-powershell/ I described the importance of matching your user UPN with their primary SMTP Address. A scenario I recently came across was where the customer didnt have the correct UPN Suffix registered in their Active Directory Forest. For example, the root domain was contoso.com so all their UPNs were similar to [email protected].

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