Powershell Renaming Script

[madurham]

We're about to rename the UPNs of all staff in O365 so I'm trying to script it. But I can't get the PSSession to connect without prompting for credentials. Is this possible?

 

$currUsername = "SmithJ"
$newUsername = "John.Smith"
       
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force
$UserCredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("[email protected]", $secpasswd)


$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
Connect-msolservice
Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName "[email protected]" -NewUserPrincipalName "[email protected]"

 

Bonus Error:

This pops up when Import-PSSession is called.

WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'tmp_fywafn3s.bq2' include unapproved verbs that might make them less discoverable. To find the commands with unapproved verbs, run the Import-Module command again with the Verbose parameter. For a list of approved verbs, type Get-Verb.

Verbs look fine to me.

[Marshall_IT]

I use the following to connect and i've not had a problem before.

 

$username = "[email protected]"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force
$MsolCred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $password)

Connect-MsolService -Credential $MsolCred

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

 

It looks exactly the same as yours apart from i'm also connecting to exchange online, which you shouldn't need to do.

Edited November 19, 2015 by Marshall_IT

[madurham]

I spotted where ours differ. I needed to pass the -credential to the Connect-MsolService cmdlet.

Works fine now. Thanks.

[Marshall_IT]

No problem.

[halbaradkenafin]

 

Bonus Error:

This pops up when Import-PSSession is called.

 

Verbs look fine to me.

 

That's safe to ignore, it's basically them saying "something in here might not be the verb you're expecting".