The Lazy Administrator

Recently the Exchange Online Module v2 came out with support for connecting to Exchange Online via a managed identity. The module has several parameters:

1. ManagedIdentity
2. ManagedIdentityAccountId
3. Organization

When using the ManagedIdentity parameter you must also call the Organization parameter which is the initial, or ‘.onmicrosoft’ domain.

What You Will Need

• PowerShell
• Az PowerShell Module (install-module az)
• The Microsoft Graph SDK (install-module Microsoft.Graph

Create the Managed Identity, Permissions, and Runbook

Connect to Azure

First thing we must do is connect to Azure using the Az module. Open a PowerShell window and run

Connect-AzAccount

Create a Resource Group

After we are connected we need to create a Resource Group to house everything. In my example I will create a new Resource Group in the Central US region.

$rgname = "rg-exchangeautomation"
$location = "centralus"
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $rgname -Location $location

Create the Automation Account

Next, we need to create the Automation Account that runs … Continue...