Powershell, Office365 remote sessions and Set-CASMAilbox (Outlook Web App policies)

[Garacesh]

Still can't pin down this O365 script

 

Split my script up into multiple scripts and everything seems to be fine

• Script 0 - Powershell script to launch the others in sequence
  
• Script 1 - Modify email address from @onmicrosoft to @schoolname (Set-MSOLUserPrincipalName)
  
• Script 2 - Assign user location to 'GB' (Set-MSOLUser)
  
• Script 3 - Remove unused licenses, assign correct ones. (Set-MSOLUser)
  
• Script 4 - User role assignment (Set-Mailbox)
  
• Script 5 - User retention policy (Set-Mailbox)
  
• Script 6 - OWA Policy (Set-CASMailbox)
  
• Script 7 - Assign admin permission to access mailbox (Get-Mailbox)
  

 

Step 6 is where the errors are getting produced once I start trying to assign the Outlook Web App Policy (It took me way too long to figure out what "OWA Policy" meant...)

It'll get though however-many users and then bomb, with the error

[color="#FF0000"][b]Processing data from remote server ps.outlook.com failed with the following 
error mesage: WS-Management cannot process the request. The operation failed
because of an HTTP error. The HTTP error (12152) is: The server returned an
invalid or unrecognized response . For more information, see the
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.


[indent] + CategoryInfo 	: OperationStopped: (ps.outlook.com:String) [], PS
RemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId 	: JobFailure
+ PSComputerName		: ps.outlook.com[/b][/color][/indent]

 

It tries to do the next user, bombs again with the same error message, for a seemingly random number of tries (I've observed once and four times) then finally bombs out permanently, this time with:

[b][color="#FF0000"][ps.outlook.com] Processing data from remote server ps.outlook.com failed with 
the following error mesage: WS-Management cannot process the request. The 
operation failed because of an HTTP error. The HTTP error (12152) is: The 
server returned an invalid or unrecognized response . For more information, 
see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.


[indent] + CategoryInfo 	: OpenError: (ps.outlook.com:String) [], PSRemotin
gTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId 	: JWinRMOperationAborted,PSSessionStateBroken[/color][/b][/indent]

 

It then seems to do the next user just fine, and then the next user it stalls, throws "Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Set-CASMailbox" command..." and asks for credentials again, then just carries on as normal. Then a little further down the line it bombs out again, same errors. Input credentials, carries on normally.

 

The accounts it dies on seem to have no correlation to each other, it works for staff and kids across all ages and has failed on staff and kids, too.

 

The actual code being run is just a simple foreach loop with 2 if statements.

# Assign Outlook Web App policy
if ($PupilList -contains ($User -replace "@[i][/i]schoolname", "")) {									# If account is a pupil account
	Set-CASMailbox -Identity $User -OWAEnabled $true -OwaMailboxPolicy "Student OWA Policy"				# Apply student OWA Policy
}
if ($StaffList -contains ($User -replace "@[i][/i]schoolname", "")) {									# If account is a pupil account
	Set-CASMailbox -Identity $User -OWAEnabled $true -OwaMailboxPolicy "Staff OWA Policy"				# Apply staff OWA Policy
}
}

 

Edit: Yay, more errors thrown now

[b][color="#FF0000"]Starting a command on remote server failed wit hthe following error message :
The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an
application request. For more information, see the 
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.


[indent] + CategoryInfo 	: OpenError: (ps.outlook.com:String) [], PSRemotin
gTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId 	: JWinRMOperationAborted,PSSessionStateBroken[/color][/b][/indent]

 

 

[b][color="#FF0000"][ps.outlook.com] Processing data from remote server ps.outlook.com failed with 
the following error mesage: WS-Management cannot process the request. The 
operation failed because of an HTTP error. The HTTP error (12152) is: The 
server returned an invalid or unrecognized response . For more information, 
see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.


[indent] + CategoryInfo 	: OpenError: (ps.outlook.com:String) [], PSRemotin
gTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId 	: JWinRMOperationAborted,PSSessionStateBroken[/indent]


Cannot invoke pipeline because runspace is not i nthe Opened state. Current
state of runspace is 'Broken'.


[indent] + CategoryInfo 	: OperationStopped: (Microsoft.Power...tHelperRuns
pace:ExecutionCmdletHelperRunspace) [], InvalidRunspaceStateException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId 	: InvalidSessionState,System.Management.Automation[/color][/b][/indent]

Edited October 1, 2015 by Garacesh

[Boredguy]

We found that if we added a sleep for 60 seconds after creating/assigning Exchange licence then updated their mailbox policies it worked ok.

[Garacesh]

There's definitely more than a 60 second delay between the Licensing script ending and the Mailbox policy script beginning. Originally these were all run as one big script so it would do UserA's email, location, license, etc then UserB's email, location, etc. but that was throwing similar errors and making me re-authenticate every 2 minutes, so I split them up to try and figure out where it was going wrong.

 

It's also doing the same kind of errors with Get-Mailbox now. I'm wondering is there a maximum session time..? But each script creates and removes their own PSSession so I don't think it would be that..