Exchange Online : Major Update – Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA module

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today one of the MAJOR UPDATE related to Exchange Online.

Major Update – Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA module

Details:

• Microsoft published this update / news on 29 July 2022
• This update is related to older version of Exchange Online PowerShell module with MFA
• Microsoft is retiring “the Exchange Online PowerShell module with MFA” on Dec 31, 2022
• Support for this module (“the Exchange Online PowerShell module with MFA“) will end on 31 August, 2022
• Reference to this old module : V1 module – Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell using MFA
• Microsoft Recommendation – Henceforward we should use “Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module)”

Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module) :

• We could download this module from the PowerShell gallery at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement
• This module uses Modern Authentication and supports both accounts with MFA or without MFA
• More information about Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module) – About the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module

What action we need to take in our organization :

• We need to update our users who uses older version of Exchange Online PowerShell module

Installing and connecting to “Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module)”

• Download this module from the PowerShell gallery at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExchangeOnlineManagement
• We have various option to install
  • Using “Install Module” PowerShell CMDLET
  • Azure Automation
  • Manual Download – By manually downloading .nupkg package file

• Here I am using Install-Module PowerShell CMDLET as

PS C:\> Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -RequiredVersion 2.0.5

• Once we installed the module successfully we are ready to connect
• First we will import the module using Import-Module CMDLET as

Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement

• Once imported we will connect to use respective PowerShell CMDLETs in module using – Connect-ExchangeOnline CMDLET as

Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com

• The above CMDLET will prompt for credential
• On successful entering credentials, we will be connected to Exchange Online as shown in below fig

• On successful connection we are ready to execute related PowerShell CMDLET
• We will fetch the mailBox of current user using Get-Mailbox PowerShell CMDLET as

Get-Mailbox

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