O365

Ever tried to modify permissions to a SharePoint site with a huge number of files in it?

You might experience something like this:

Managing permissions to a site in SharePoint Online is of course doable with PowerShell! I thought I’d quickly go through the basics.

Prereqs

First of all we need to download the SharePoint Online Management Shell. This can be done by following this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588

But what’s the fun in that when we can use PowerShell?

Disclaimer: This code uses a permanent link to the msi file, this might break in the future!

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/E/02E7E5BA-2190-44A8-B407-BC73CA0D6B87/SharePointOnlineManagementShell_6802-1200_x64_en-us.msi' -OutFile .\SPOShell.msi
$MSI = Get-Item -Path .\SPOShell.msi
msiexec /i $MSI.FullName /qb
$env:PSModulePath = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PSModulePath","Machine")
Import-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking

On november 17th, a new version of the AzureAD PowerShell module was released to the gallery. This can be found here: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureAD/2.0.0.30

In the old MSOnline module there were two commands used to change assigned licenses to a user. First we had the Set-MsolUserLicense with the parameter ObjectID or UserPrincipalName could be combined with AddLicenses, RemoveLicenses and LicenseOptions. Secondly we had New-MsolLicenseOptions which would create a licenseoptions object.

In the new AzureAD module there still is a command called Set-AzureADUserLicense, but it has only two parametrs, ObjectId and AssignedLicenses. There is no command to create licenseoptions.

Now this can be a bit confusing for the unexperienced PowerShell user, but fear not, we’ll get to the bottom of this!