How to establish PowerShell connection into Office 365 Exchange

Date : March 4, 2017

We all know how important PowerShell has become, so it important to be able to establish a connection to Office 365.

Some things just can’t be done through the web-based GUI that Microsoft provides (or take a lot longer to do. Think repetitive tasks).

The 3 commands you will need to connect are:

1	$cred=Get-Credential

1	$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

1	Import-PSSession $Session

Enter these one at a time, and you’ll then be connected to Office 365 Exchange!

You can verify the connection with the very simple command to show you a list of all your users:

1	Get-Mailbox

Happy PowerShell-ing!