Microsoft Entra – PowerShell module now generally available – Exploring Microsoft Entra PowerShell – 1

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Greetings for the day!!!

In last week, Microsoft announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Entra PowerShell module.

On Knowledge-Junction, I will start sharing articles on Microsoft Entra PowerShell module.

What is Microsoft Entra PowerShell module?

• Microsoft Entra PowerShell module is PowerShell module designed to streamline and automation for Microsoft Entra.
• The Microsoft Entra PowerShell module is a command-line tool. Allows administrators and developers to manage and automate Microsoft Entra resources programmatically.
• Microsoft Entra PowerShell module includes
  • Managing users
  • Groups
  • Applications
  • Service Principals
  • Policies and more
• Microsoft Entra PowerShell module is developed upon Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
  • We have list of detailed articles on Microsoft Graph PowerShell – https://knowledge-junction.in/category/technology-articles/m365/microsoft-graph/microsoft-graph-powershell/
• Microsoft Entra PowerShell works with Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7+.

How to install Microsoft Entra PowerShell module ?

• We will use Install-Module PowerShell CMDLET for installing Microsoft Entra PowerShell module.
  • We have detailed article on PowerShell Modules. PowerShell – Exploring Module CMDLETs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/12/__trashed-2/

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Entra -Repository PSGallery -Scope CurrentUser -Force -AllowClobber

• We check installation of “Microsoft.Entra” PowerShell module is installed using “Get-Module“.

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Entra

View all Microsoft Entra PowerShell CMDLETS

• We will use “Get-Command” PowerShell CMDLET to view all Microsoft Entra PowerShell CMDLET

Get-Command -Module Microsoft.Entra*

Demo – Executing Microsoft Entra PowerShell CMDLET – “Get-EntraUser”

Connect to Microsoft Entra

• We will use “Connect-Entra” PowerShell CMDLET to connect Microsoft Entra

Connect-Entra

• Once we connected to Microsoft Entra, we are ready to execute Microsoft Entra PowerShell CMDLETs
• Lets get all the users in our tenant
• We will use “Get-EntraUser” PowerShell CMDLET to get all users.

Get-EntraUser

REFERENCES

• Microsoft Graph PowerShell articles – https://knowledge-junction.in/category/technology-articles/m365/microsoft-graph/microsoft-graph-powershell/
• PowerShell – Exploring Module CMDLETs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/12/__trashed-2/
• Microsoft Entra PowerShell documentation – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/entra-powershell/?view=entra-powershell

Thanks for reading!!!

HAVE A FANTASTIC TIME AHEAD !!! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂