10 useful Office 365 PowerShell snippets
Using the Windows Azure Active Directory Module connect to
Azure AD using the following command.
Connect-MsolService
Enter your tenant credentials. (user@contoso.onmicrosoft.com)
1.Export to CSV all users that are licensed and have a specific UPN domain prefix.
Get-MsolUser -all |where {$_.isLicensed -And $_.UserPrincipalName.ToLower().EndsWith("contoso.com")} | Export-csv userTrue.csv
2.Export to CSV all users that are NOT licensed and have a specific UPN domain prefix.
Get-MsolUser -all |where {!$_.isLicensed -And $_.UserPrincipalName.ToLower().EndsWith("contoso.com")} | Export-csv userFalse.csv
3.Get the Account Skus associated with a tenant (e.g License Pack(s) used to assign a license to a user)
Get-MsolAccountSku | ft accountskuid
Returns
AccountSkuId
------------
Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT
4.Report the service names associated with a particular SKU (e,g Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, Yammer, etc)
$a = get-MsolAccountSku | where{$_.AccountSkuID -eq "Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT"}
$a.servicestatus
Returns
ServicePlan
ProvisioningStatus
-----------------------------
RMS_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
OFFICE_PRO_PLUS_SUBSCRIPTION_B_PILOT Success
LYNC_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
SHAREPOINTWAC_B_PILOT Success
SHAREPOINT_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
5. Assign a License SKU to a particular user.
Set-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com " -UsageLocation GB
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com " -AddLicenses Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT
6. Assign an element(s) of License SKU to a particular user (e.g Disable Lync).
$DisableComponents = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT -DisabledPlans LYNC_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT
Set-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com " -UsageLocation GB
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com " -AddLicenses Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT -LicenseOptions $DisableComponents
7. Get the SKU Associated to a particular user (i.e. what license pack has been assigned)
$a = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com "
$a.licenses.accountskuid
Returns
Contoso:ENTERPRISEPACK_B_PILOT
8.Get the provisioning status of each of the service names for a user. (i.e is Exchange enabled, Lync disabled etc)
$a = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com "
$a.licenses.servicestatus
Returns
ServicePlan
ProvisioningStatus
-----------------------------
RMS_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
OFFICE_PRO_PLUS_SUBSCRIPTION_B_PILOT Success
LYNC_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Disabled
SHAREPOINTWAC_B_PILOT Success
SHAREPOINT_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
EXCHANGE_S_ENTERPRISE_B_PILOT Success
9. Delete a user from the tenant and the recycle bin (managed identities)
Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName “ user@contoso.com ” -Force
Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName “ user@contoso.com ” -RemoveFromRecycleBin
10. Convert the BASE64 GUID from a Azure AD user back to an AD GUID. (Example of usage would be a PS Script to write an attribute to AD for each user in Office365 – AD GUID provides the bind to user in AD)
$a = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName " user@contoso.com "
$GUID = new-Object -TypeName System.Guid -ArgumentList(,( ([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($a.ImmutableId)) ) )
$getAD = Get-ADUser -Identity $GUID