50 Useful Office 365 PowerShell Commands for Efficient Management

Here are 50 of the most useful Office 365 PowerShell commands:

1. Connect to Office 365: Connect-MsolService
2. Create a new user: New-MsolUser
3. Add a license to a user: Set-MsolUserLicense
4. Remove a license from a user: Set-MsolUserLicense -RemoveLicense
5. Add a user to a distribution group: Add-DistributionGroupMember
6. Remove a user from a distribution group: Remove-DistributionGroupMember
7. Add a user to a security group: Add-MsolGroupMember
8. Remove a user from a security group: Remove-MsolGroupMember
9. Add a user to a SharePoint group: Add-SPOUser
10. Remove a user from a SharePoint group: Remove-SPOUser
11. Create a new SharePoint site: New-SPOSite
12. Remove a SharePoint site: Remove-SPOSite
13. Set a SharePoint site's permissions: Set-SPOSite
14. Set a user's password: Set-MsolUserPassword
15. Reset a user's password: Reset-MsolUserPassword
16. Assign a role to a user: Add-MsolRoleMember
17. Remove a role from a user: Remove-MsolRoleMember
18. View a user's roles: Get-MsolRoleMember
19. Create a new group: New-MsolGroup
20. Remove a group: Remove-MsolGroup
21. Set a group's properties: Set-MsolGroup
22. View a group's members: Get-MsolGroupMember
23. View a user's properties: Get-MsolUser
24. View a user's licenses: Get-MsolUserLicense
25. View a user's groups: Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName "user@domain.com" | Select -ExpandProperty ProxyAddresses
26. View a user's roles: Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName "user@domain.com" | Select -ExpandProperty Roles
27. View a user's SharePoint sites: Get-SPOUser
28. View a user's OneDrive for Business site: Get-SPOSite -Identity "https://domain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user_domain_com"
29. View a user's Exchange mailbox: Get-Mailbox
30. View a user's Outlook rules: Get-InboxRule
31. Set an Exchange mailbox's properties: Set-Mailbox
32. Set an Outlook rule's properties: Set-InboxRule
33. View a user's calendar: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user@domain.com:\calendar
34. View a user's contacts: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user@domain.com:\contacts
35. View a user's tasks: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user@domain.com:\tasks
36. Create a new mailbox: New-Mailbox
37. Remove a mailbox: Remove-Mailbox
38. View a distribution group's properties: Get-DistributionGroup
39. Set a distribution group's properties: Set-DistributionGroup
40. View a security group's properties: Get-MsolGroup
41. Set a security group's properties: Set-MsolGroup
42. View a SharePoint site's properties: Get-SPOSite
43. Set a SharePoint site's properties: Set-SPOSite
44. View a SharePoint list's properties: Get-SPOList
45. View a SharePoint library's properties: Get-SPODocumentLibrary
46. Create a new SharePoint list: New-SPOList
47. Create a new SharePoint library: New-SPODocumentLibrary
48. Remove a SharePoint list: Remove-SPOList
49. Remove a SharePoint library: Remove-SPODocumentLibrary
50. Configure email forwarding for the user mailbox using the following command: Set-Mailbox -Identity "<UserPrincipalName>" -ForwardingAddress "<ExternalEmailAddress>" -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $falseNote: Replace <UserPrincipalName> with the user's email address and <ExternalEmailAddress> with the email address where you want to forward the emails. Verify the forwarding address is set correctly using the following command: Get-Mailbox -Identity "<UserPrincipalName>" | select *forward*To disable email forwarding, use the following command:Set-Mailbox -Identity "<UserPrincipalName>" -ForwardingAddress $null -DeliverToMailboxAndForward $false