Updated EPUB and PDF Files Available for Download

The Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell eBook is now at update #9. This is the March 2025 update. We release monthly updates for the PowerShell eBook around the middle of the preceding month to allow us the time to concentrate on preparing the monthly update for Office 365 for IT Pros.

The updated EPUB and PDF files are available to:

• People who bought Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell on its own.
• Subscribers to the Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition) eBook.

Please use the download link in the receipt emailed after your purchase to access the updated files. Alternatively, you can get the updated files through your Gumroad.com account. The update number (and month) is shown at the bottom of each page.

Continual Expansion of Content

The original version of Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell spanned about 120 pages. The book is now 300 pages (more in the paperback edition because it includes an index). When we removed the PowerShell chapter from the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook, we always knew that there was much more to say about using PowerShell with Microsoft 365. Over the last eight updates, we’ve added a ton of examples, mostly covering the use of Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets with workloads like Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams.

Update #9 continues the trend with new content covering topics like using the Sites.Selected Graph permission to control access to SharePoint Online sites, how to upload files to SharePoint Online, sending multiple attachments with Exchange Online, and using an upload session to process very large attachments. There are many other changes, rewrites, and enhancements scattered across the book, including a complete rewrite of our coverage of using Microsoft 365 PowerShell with Azure Automation.

Price, Price, Price

To reflect the increased value of the content included in Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell, we’ve increased the price from $12.95 to $14.95. Other books covering the use of PowerShell with Microsoft 365 are priced significantly higher, so we think that even the new price represents incredible value. We’re confident that no other book covers the number and variety of fully-worked out examples of how to use PowerShell to get work done with Microsoft 365.

We also increased the price of the paperback edition to $19.95. This is simply a function of the increased page count driving the cost we pay Amazon to print each copy on an on-demand. There’s nothing to stop anyone printing off the PDF version if you want a paper copy. The only issue you’ll run into is that the many hyperlinks (over 200 at the last count) we include in the book become unusable when printed. To get around the issue, we substitute plain-text links in the content of the paperback edition.

Subscribers of Office 365 for IT Pros don’t have to pay any extra for their copies of Automating Microsoft 365 with PowerShell.

Onto Update #10

Work has already started on update #10. We’re waiting for Microsoft to release a new version of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. V2.25 has been around for about three months now, which is much longer than the usual monthly release cadence (Figure 1).

I don’t know why Microsoft has delayed the release of V2.26. It’s certainly not to deal with the problem related to plain-text passwords reported last week. No doubt we will hear in time. In the meanwhile, the interesting thing about the information shown in Figure 1 is the dramatic usage growth for the SDK from 1.18 million downloads of V2.24 to 3.49 million downloads for V2.25. That’s probably indicative of an uptick in interest as tenants work to get off the soon-to-retire MSOL and Azure AD modules. Maybe all those folks upgrading scripts to use the Graph SDK could do with a good book?