Confused about deprecated O365 commands?

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I was getting pretty confused with the various options around powershell commands to use with Exchange online.  For example, to add a user to a distribution group in O365, I had come across 4 different commands:

So after some digging I realised that the *-AzureRM* are powershell cmdlets to modify general Azure resources using…

Powershell script for creating an O365 cloud mailbox within a hybrid exchange environment

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I recently wrote this script that creates an O365 mailbox within a hybrid exchange environment, creating all the necessary attributes etc in exchange and AD Log all output to a local logfile, that is unique each time and won’t get overwritten

Clear output from the screen to prevent previous command being sent as first…

Adding Users to O365 Distribution List

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A script I recently used to add members to an office 365 distribution group using a remote exchange session in a hybrid setup (covered at the end). 

CSV file contains UPNs of all users to be added. I also found it useful to see who had permissions to send to this group using

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Set O365 Password to never expire for just one user

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Recently I needed to do this for our PRTG alerting account which was failing to send notifications as the O365 password had expired.  I did this from Powershell within Windows 10 as follows: Launch powershell as Administrator then run

Then run

at this point an O365 authentication box pops up – enter your…

Add AD security group to local administrators on Hyper-V server running core

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First connect to the remote server with powershell

Next run the command to add the group:

If you’re paranoid (like me) and want to check this worked you can use: