Monday, April 4, 2016

Set up the SharePoint Online Management Shell for SharePoint Online

What is SharePoint Online Management Shell ?

It is a Windows PowerShell module, that is to be used for managing Users, sites, organizations and site collections of SharePoint online.

How to Set up the SharePoint Online Management Shell for SharePoint Online ?

Step 01

Download SharePoint Online Management Shell from  here.

Step 02

Double click on that sharepointonlinemanagementshell program file and install it.

Step 04

Click Start>All Programs>SharePoint Online Management Shell to open it.



Step 03

Connect-SPOService -Url "Sitecollection" -Credential "User Name"

Copy above shown command and paste it in the SharePoint Online Management Shell then press Enter.

Url - Its the url of the particular administrator site of that particular site collection.

Eg-:

If the Url of the site this https://mst009.sharepoint.com, 

Credential - User Name which is needed to grant access to the admin site.

Eg -:


Once the command is entered, below shown dialog box will be popped up to provide the credentials to the particular account


 Once the correct credential is provided and the OK button clicked, it gives the below screen.



Now the configuration of SharePoint online power shell is succeeded, it can be checked by providing Get-SPOSite  command. It will list down all the site collections.

If you suppose to investigate about SharePoint Online Management Shell more, i recommend you to use this articular.


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