Office 365 Exchange Connection URI

[StephenHardy]

Got an issue connecting to Office 365 to disable activesync for a specific set of users however I don't seem to be able to connect to the URI, any ideas what the URI should be?

 

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "https://outlook.com/domain-name.com/"

 

Error:

 

New-PSSession : [outlook.com] Connecting to remote server outlook.com failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot complete the operation. Verify

that the specified computer name is valid, that the computer is accessible over the network, and that a firewall exception for the WinRM service is enabled

 

and allows access from this computer. By default, the WinRM firewall exception for public profiles limits access to remote computers within the same local

 

subnet. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

 

At C:\SWSC Office 365 Scripts\Office 365\Students_Provision_Disable_Services.ps1:6 char:12

 

+ $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "h ...

 

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotingTransportException

 

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WinRMOperationTimeout,PSSessionOpenFailed

 

Import-PSSession : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Session'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the argument, and then try running the

 

command again.

 

At C:\SWSC Office 365 Scripts\Office 365\Students_Provision_Disable_Services.ps1:7 char:18

 

+ Import-PSSession $Session

 

+ ~~~~~~~~

 

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: ( [import-PSSession], ParameterBindingValidationException

 

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportPSSessionCommand

[andyrite]

https://outlook.com/domain-name.com/ looks odd.

 

Try

 

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange-ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

[StephenHardy]

I've tried:

 

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

Get-User -RecipientTypeDetailsUserMailbox | where {$_.Title -eq "Student User"} | Set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $False

 

Still the same issue

[andyrite]

The text you just posted doesn't have any spaces in. Is that a pasting issue?

[StephenHardy]

yeah definitely a pasting issue

[EduTech]

If you want to connect to both Azure Active Directory & Exchange Online at the same time this will do what you want:

 

Import-Module msonline

$cred = Get-Credential

Connect-MsolService -cred $cred

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

 

Regards,

James.

[EduTech]

If you are running a script that contains variables '$something' and this variable is not set within the script you are running then you need to ensure that before you run the script that the variable is set globally so that when a script is run it can get the variable.

 

The error your getting is stating that $session equal $null and so therefore when the script attempts to carry out the action, because it can't find anything in $session it throws an exception.

 

James.

[StephenHardy]

Import-Module msonline

$cred

= Get-Credential

Connect-MsolService

-cred $cred

$Session

= New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession

$Session

 

　

 

Get-User

-RecipientTypeDetailsUserMailbox | where {$_.Title -eq "Student User"} | Set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $False

 

 

[StephenHardy]

I've put a service request in with MS to see if they can resolve this...

[EduTech]

Stephen,

 

The syntax in the command you are using is not correct

 

Get-User -RecipientTypeDetailsUserMailbox

 

This should be

 

Get-User -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox | where {$_.Title -eq "Student User"} | Set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $false

 

In terms of the error message your getting, looks like your have connectivity issues more than anything else or/ it's connecting to an on-premise exchange server? :/ anyway above is the correct syntax for the command. :-)

 

James.

Edited June 25, 2014 by EduTech

[StephenHardy]

Haahaa School Boy error:

 

netsh WINHTTP import proxy source =ie

 

 

Now all hunky dory:

Import-Module msonline

$cred = Get-Credential

Connect-MsolService -cred $cred

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationNameMicrosoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell-Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

 

cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position1

Supply values for the following parameters:

WARNING: Your connection has been redirected to thefollowing URI: "https://podXXXXXpsh.outlook.com/powershell-liveid?PSVersion=4.0"

WARNING: The names of some imported commands fromthe module 'tmp_cuyndfqy.jnd' include unapproved verbs that might make themless discoverable. To find the

commands with unapproved verbs, run theImport-Module command again with the Verbose parameter. For a list of approvedverbs, type Get-Verb.

 

ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands

---------- ------- ---- ----------------

Script 1.0 tmp_cuyndfqy.jnd {Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace, Add-DistributionGroupMember,Add-MailboxFolderPermission, Add-Ma...

 

 

Edited June 25, 2014 by StephenHardy

[EduTech]

Haahaa School Boy error:

 

netsh WINHTTP import proxy source =ie

 

 

Now all hunky dory:

Import-Module msonline

$cred = Get-Credential

Connect-MsolService -cred $cred

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationNameMicrosoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell-Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

 

cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position1

Supply values for the following parameters:

WARNING: Your connection has been redirected to thefollowing URI: "https://podXXXXXpsh.outlook.com/powershell-liveid?PSVersion=4.0"

WARNING: The names of some imported commands fromthe module 'tmp_cuyndfqy.jnd' include unapproved verbs that might make themless discoverable. To find the

commands with unapproved verbs, run theImport-Module command again with the Verbose parameter. For a list of approvedverbs, type Get-Verb.

 

ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands

---------- ------- ---- ----------------

Script 1.0 tmp_cuyndfqy.jnd {Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace, Add-DistributionGroupMember,Add-MailboxFolderPermission, Add-Ma...

 

 

 

;-) so it was connectivity then. It's okay you'll be surprised the amount of people that actually have this issue because they forget about the proxy servers.