PowerShell + SharePoint Online – An Admins Guide to Administration in the O365 Cloud

1. PowerShell + SharePoint Online – An Admins Guide to Administration in the O365 Cloud Marrell Sanders – Sr. SharePoint Administrator NACS Branson, MO | March 14, 2019

2. Who Am I Marrell Sanders, MCTS • Senior Level Techie Contact • Email: techrevmarrell@outlook.com • Blog: www.techrevmarrell.com • Twitter: @TechRevMarrell

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5. Win a Surface Book courtesy of Microsoft! Play Vendor Bingo, Winner drawn during closing session on Friday

6. Key Takeaways • What’s new with PoSh for SPO • How to manage sites, users, groups with O365 PowerShell • Automate Business Scenarios with PowerShell • Scheduling Tasks using Azure VM • Security with Automated and Remote Scripting

7. SharePoint Admin RoleWhat happened to it? Remember the good old days of SharePoint Administration? MOSS 2007 SharePoint 2010 or 2013? Huge Server Farms

8. Todd Klindtand Shane Young predicted the collapse of the “old ways” of the SharePoint Administrators. “The Old Admin Ways Must End”

9. Microsoft said a long time ago, ya know who can run a SharePoint farm better than us?

10. And so they do.

11. Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS)

12. Learn a new skill Time to become a Developer….. Sort of, but not really, but kinda.

13. What is PowerShell? • PowerShell is an object-oriented programming language and interactive command line shell for Microsoft Windows. • #POSH • #PowerShell

14. Use the Force Oh Wait… I can’t logon to an o365 tenant server

15. Well Thanks for Coming!Just Kidding There’s More!

16. What tools do we have? SPO Service Connect-PNP And a bunch of others

17. PnP PowerShell SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) contains a library of PowerShell commands (PnP PowerShell) that allows you to perform complex provisioning and artifact management actions towards SharePoint. The commands use CSOM and can work against both SharePoint Online as SharePoint On-Premises. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/

18. PnP VS SPO? • PnP PowerShell Cmdlets contains additional parameters to each command, which is used to achieve more tasks when compared to equivalent SPO command.  • PnP PowerShell Cmdlets  managed by Patterns and Practices team and it gets updated every month. Where as SPO cmdlets are windows PowerShell module to manage the SharePoint Online and this also get frequent updates. • PnP PowerShell Cmdlets works in the context of the current user, where as SPO command runs with the Tenant Admin rights. • PnP PowerShell Cmdlets connects to the Site Collection level, where as SPO has the commands to target Tenant level.

19. Context Switching Connect-PnPOnline -Url $siteAurl -Credentials $credentials $ctx = Get-PnPContext Get-PnPList# returns the lists from site specified with $siteAurlConnect-PnPOnline-Url $siteBurl -Credentials $credentialsGet-PnPList# returns the lists from the site specified with $siteBurl Set-PnPContext-Context $ctx# switch back to site A Get-PnPList# returns the lists from site A

20. Demos:

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22. Resource Links https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell/wiki/How-to-use-the-Windows-Credential-Manager-to-ease-authentication-with-PnP-PowerShellhttps://laurakokkarinen.com/my-most-used-powershell-scripts-for-managing-sharepoint-online/ https://absolute-sharepoint.com/2018/03/create-a-report-of-sharepoint-online-external-users-with-powershell.html https://www.amazon.com/Essential-PowerShell-Office-365-Productivity/dp/1484231287