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Office 365 Admin PowerShell basic commands

 Managing Office 365 via PowerShell CLI needs to have proper access rights or privileges.

 First step is to connect to the Office 365 domain via an elevated PowerShell terminal.

Connect-exchangeonline -userprincipalname email-admin@domain.com

PowerShell for Office 365 is very handy. Below are just a few examples that might save some time and focus on other important task, or just simply enjoying more coffee time.

Get or list aliases of a mailbox, email account or group mailboxes.

Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Name of the Mailbox" | Select-Object DisplayName,@{Name=”EmailAddresses”;Expression={$_.EmailAddresses |Where-Object {$_ -LIKE “SMTP:*”}}} | ft -wrap

List the Primary Email of a group's mailbox using the group name.

Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Name of the Mailbox"  | Select-Object DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress

Change group primary email.

Set-Unifiedgroup -identity "Group Name to change email" -primarysmtpaddress new-email@of-the-group.com

Create a new group with the email address.

Access Type can be set, value can be Public or Private.

New-Unifiedgroup -DisplayName "Group - Name" -EmailAddresses "emai-of-the-group@domain.com" -AccessType Public

Changing email group access type from Public to Private.

Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Group - Name" -AccessType Private

Set or create an alias of the group.

Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Group - Name" -EmailAddresses: @{Add ="new-alias-of-the-group@domain.com"}

Add an email to the group.

Add-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity "email-group@domain.com" –LinkType "Members" –Links "email-account-to-be-added@domain.com"

Above command adds a single email to the group.

To add multiple emails use this small PowerShell snippet.

#======================

Import-csv  "c:\tmp\emails-group.csv" | foreach-object {

  $email = $_.members

   Write-Host $email #Just to display the email to be added

   $added_email = Add-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity "Group - Name" –LinkType "Members" –Links $email

  Write-Output $added_email

 }

#========================

emails-group.csv need to follow this format.

1st Row value should be the literal text--> members

2nd row onwards are the email accounts to b added to the group

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