AzureAD

Getting an access token for AzureAD using PowerShell and device login flow

PowerShell, Azure
Intro Have you ever wanted to query an API that uses access tokens from Azure Active Directory (AzureAD) from a PowerShell script? There are a lot of solutions for this that uses an application in AzureAD and authenticates using its client-id and secret. If I have a web application or a non-interactive service this is the way to go. My friend and colleague Emanuel Palm wrote a great post on Microsoft Graph API with PowerShell for that scenario.

Modify access to site in SharePoint Online with PowerShell

AzureAD, O365, PowerShell, SharePoint

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

You might experience something like this:

The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.

The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.

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