Presented at ShareCloud Summit 2018. All rights reserved.

1. PowerShell + SharePoint Online
– An Admins Guide to
Administration in the O365 Cloud
Marrell Sanders – Sr. SharePoint Administrator
ShareCloud Summit Dallas, TX | May 2nd, 2018

2. Who Am I
Marrell Sanders, MCTS
 Senior SharePoint Administrator
Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores
 MS Group IT
Contact
 Email: techrevmarrell@outlook.com
 Blog: www.techrevmarrell.com
 Twitter: @TechRevMarrell

3. Key Takeaways
 What’s new with PoSh for SPO
 How to manage sites, users, groups with O365 PowerShell
 Automate Business Scenarios with PowerShell
 Scheduling Tasks using Azure
 Security with Automated and Remote Scripting
 The Top Ten cmdlets SP Admins will use

4. SharePoint Admin Role
What happened to it?
Remember the good old days of SharePoint Administration?
MOSS 2007
SharePoint 2010 or 2013?
Huge Server Farms

5. Todd Klindt and Shane Young predicted the collapse of
the “old ways” of the SharePoint Administrators.
“The Old Admin Ways Must End”

6. Microsoft said a long time ago, ya know
who can run a SharePoint farm better
than us?

7. And so they do.

8. Business Productivity Online
Standard Suite (BPOS)

9. Learn a new skill
Time to become a Developer….. Sort
of, but not really, but kinda.

10. What is PowerShell?
 PowerShell is an object-oriented
programming language and
interactive command line shell for
Microsoft Windows.
 #POSH
 #PowerShell

11. Use the Force
Oh Wait…
I can’t logon to an o365 tenant server

12. Well Thanks for Coming!
Just Kidding There’s More!

13. What tools do we have?
Azure AD
SPO Service
MS Teams

14. What tools do we have?
Azure AD
install-module –Name AzureAD
SPO Service
Connect-SPOService –url https://tenant-admin.sharePoint.com
MS Teams
Connect-MicrosoftTeams –url https://tenant.sharePoint.com

15. Demo:
Connect to Environment using SPO Service Modules

16. Demo:
Get Site Collections
Create Site Collection
Set Properties for Site Collection

17. Demo:
Create Multiple Site Collections

18. Demo:
Get some User(s)

19. What is CSOM
Client Side Object Model
We need to include the Client Object Model Libraries into our Scripts.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM

20. Demo:
Create Subsites using CSOM

21. Demo:
Delete Subsite using CSOM

23. PnP PowerShell
SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) contains a
library of PowerShell commands (PnP PowerShell)
that allows you to perform complex provisioning and
artifact management actions towards SharePoint.
The commands use CSOM and can work against both
SharePoint Online as SharePoint On-Premises.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/powershell/sharepoint/sharepoint-
pnp/sharepoint-pnp-cmdlets?view=sharepoint-ps

24. PnP PowerShell
Connect-PnPOnline –url -credentials (Get-Credential)
Get-Command -Module *PnP*
Get-PnPMasterPage
Set-PnPMasterPage
Check In File
Who’s a site collection admin on the site.

25. Demo:
Create a lot of folders in a list using PnP

26. My Top 10
1. Get-SPOSite
2. New-SPOSite
3. Remove-SPOSite
4. Get-allsubsites in Sitecollection
5. Get-AllSubsites and Site Collections
in Farm
6. Everything in sharePont PnP
7. Scheduled Task from Azure
8. Import into List
9. Create Multiple Site Collections
10. Restore-SPODeletedSite
http://techrevmarrell.com/SPOTop10