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* To connect to Exchange Online via PowerShell, the EXO V2 (as of 2021-03-29) PowerShell module is required. This module contains the cmdlets necessary for Exchange administration tasks. This can be obtained here
 
* To connect to Exchange Online via PowerShell, the EXO V2 (as of 2021-03-29) PowerShell module is required. This module contains the cmdlets necessary for Exchange administration tasks. This can be obtained here
[https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement/ EXO V2]
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* EXO V2 is supported in PowerShell v7. This is currently a few versions newer than the PowerShell built-in to Windows, so the new version has to be downloaded from Microsoft's GitHub:
 
* EXO V2 is supported in PowerShell v7. This is currently a few versions newer than the PowerShell built-in to Windows, so the new version has to be downloaded from Microsoft's GitHub:
[https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/v7.1.3 PowerShell GitHub]
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::[https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/v7.1.3 PowerShell GitHub]
   
 
==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==

Revision as of 11:58, 29 March 2021

Overview

Some settings of Exchange Online are still only manageable through PowerShell. Our Exchange server instance can be managed by PowerShell through a remote connection.

Pre-requisites

Note: These instructions are likely to change frequently as PowerShell continues to be upgraded.

  • To connect to Exchange Online via PowerShell, the EXO V2 (as of 2021-03-29) PowerShell module is required. This module contains the cmdlets necessary for Exchange administration tasks. This can be obtained here
EXO V2
  • EXO V2 is supported in PowerShell v7. This is currently a few versions newer than the PowerShell built-in to Windows, so the new version has to be downloaded from Microsoft's GitHub:
PowerShell GitHub

Documentation

How to connect to Exchange Online and other instructions are best learned through Microsoft's docs: Exchange Online PowerShell.

Notes

EAC has a web shell feature (Azure Cloud Shell), but to use this requires Azure Cloud Storage (and the small cost associated with creating a storage blob to store whatever Cloud Shell needs to store). For reference, its location in EAC is shown here:

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