Using PowerShell to Connect to Office 365 Services

PowerShell is an incredible tool that can make your work in Office 365 much more efficient by allowing you to automate repetitive tasks and skip past the often slow loading pages of the Office 365 administration portal.

Before you can start using PowerShell, however, you'll need to be familiar with the various modules, and how to connect to each one. Later, we'll show you how you can use PowerShell to administer various Office 365 services.

In this chapter, we'll explore:

• Required software you'll need to download
• Connecting to your Office 365 tenant
• Connecting with predefined credentials
• Connecting to Exchange Online
• Connecting to SharePoint Online
• Connecting to Skype for Business
• Connecting to other services
• Connecting to customer tenants using delegated access
• Connecting to multiple services in a single session
• Important security considerations