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The blog will explain the steps on how to connect to office 365 or Exchange online protection for the management using powershell of your desktop client computer.

Connecting Steps:

1. Open powershell with Run as Administrator on your computer

    

2. Run the command to cache authentication

   $Cred = Get-credential

   

    

   This will popup authentication windows. Type your login id which is the User principal name and password.

   

    

3. Run the command to configure the powershell to use the office 365.

   $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $Cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection
   

   
   

    

4. Verify and change the execution policy.

    

   To verify run the command:

   Get-Executionpolicy
   

   

    

   To change run the cmd

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

    

        Import-PSSession $Session

 

If your executionpolicy will be Restricted then you will see the below error:

Import-PSSession : Files cannot be loaded because the running of scripts is disabled on this system. Please provide a

valid certificate with which to sign the files.

 

As an example I ran the below command

   Get-Mailbox

 

 

 

Disconnecting Session

 

Run the below command to disconnect the session:

Remove-PSSession $Session

 

 

To verify run the working command as mentioned below and you will see the below error

Command: Get-Mailbox

Error: The term ‘Get-Mailbox’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

 

Prabhat Nigam

Microsoft MVP | Exchange Server

Team@MSExchangeGuru

Posted February 3rd, 2014 under Exchange 2013, Exchange Online Protection, Office 365, Powershell. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.