Connect Office 365 Exchange Online through Powershell

Question

I am trying to perform some operations on Exchange online(Office 365) through powershell.

First I created a new powershell session and exported the modules to local as "o365", so that on any later operation I no need to use Import-PsSession to download the required modules

$cred = Get-Credential
$s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName "Microsoft.Exchange" -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Export-PsSession -session $s -outputModule o365

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Now, I am creating new session and importing the existing module "o365".

$cred = Get-Credential
$s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName "Microsoft.Exchange" -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-Module o365
Get-DistributionGroup

While running the command "Get-DistributionGroup", powershell prompts me to enter the office 365 credentials once again. Is it possible to avoid entering the credentials once again? I don't want to use Import-PsSession, since it takes more time.

Answer 1

It's prompting because you're asking it to each time. I would set up $cred by creating a new object.

#Initiate Get-Credential cmdlet and store inputs
$getcred = Get-Credential
$username = $getcred.UserName
$password = $getcred.Password 

$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $password

If you place the above in its own function, you wont have the issue of re-defining the $getcred variable. (That to most is obvious, but thought I'd cover that base)