Completely Revised Version of Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell

Last year, the Office 365 for IT Pros team took the decision to carve out a chapter covering using PowerShell with Microsoft 365 and create a separate eBook. This doesn’t mean that the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook doesn’t include PowerShell examples because it still does feature many examples, especially for Teams, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online. However, we were conscious of the growing influence and importance of the Microsoft Graph APIs and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK and wanted to reflect the critical nature of these components. There’s no doubt that if tenant administrators understand how to interact with Microsoft 365 resources via the APIs (and PowerShell makes this relatively straightforward), it’s much easier to understand how Microsoft 365 works.

This realization brought us to create Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell, which we believe is the most complete treatment of using PowerShell to get things done inside a Microsoft 365 tenant that’s available today. Certainly, when you combine all the examples from Automating Office 365 with PowerShell and Office 365 for IT Pros, there’s lots of informative and useful PowerShell code to automate operations in a Microsoft 365 tenant.

An Imperfect First Edition

The first edition wasn’t perfect. Pulling out a bunch of PowerShell content from a book and attempting to make it a coherent story is always a challenge. The challenge becomes more complicated with the changes Microsoft made to the Graph APIs and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, many of which were to fix problems that should never have happened.

We’ve been working to make the coverage smoother, more informative, and more impactful since the launch of the first edition and have just completed a full end-to-end review of everything in the book. Code has been corrected, tightened, and expanded to make it more useful, and we have added a bunch of new material. We even included the late-breaking news that Microsoft has set a retirement date for the AzureAD module for mid-October 2025. The need for good information about how to migrate scripts that use the AzureAD module to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK has never been more obvious.

The result of that work is delivered in the second edition, which is available today.

Second Edition Available Free to Subscribers

Because we appreciate the support of people who subscribe to our books and understand that sometimes the quality of the first edition of Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell wasn’t where we wanted it to be, we are making the second edition available free of charge to anyone who subscribed to the first edition. If you’re a subscriber, all you need to do is use the download link in the receipt emailed to you when you bought the subscription. This link always downloads the latest version of the book, and it will now download the second edition files (EPUB and PDF).

Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell is also included in the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook bundle. Subscribers to Office 365 for IT Pros 2026 edition, which we anticipate releasing tomorrow (July 1, 2025) will get the second edition along with the files for Office 365 for IT Pros (2026 edition). We’re also making the second edition available to subscribers to Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition). Once again, use the download link in your receipt to fetch the updated files.

Subscribers who download the second edition are eligible to receive updates up to and including June 30, 2026.

Regretfully, we cannot update the paperback version of the book that people have bought. However, the updated text is now available from Amazon.com, for those who like their technical material in a printed form.

Looking Forward to 2026

We’ll continue to work on the second edition of Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell over the coming months. There will be new Graph APIs to cover, gaps to fill in, and we know that the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK has some work to do to restore its reputation with customers. Nearly four million downloads of V2.25 of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK speak to its popularity and usefulness. What everyone needs now is better quality and stability in the Graph APIs and SDK. When Microsoft delivers new versions, we’ll be there to parse, analyze, and report on the news.

Need some assistance to write and manage PowerShell scripts for Microsoft 365? Get a copy of the Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook, available standalone or as part of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook bundle.