Office 365: Connecting to Office Online 365 service using Power Shell Script issue

Question

I have Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and it has Power Shell v1.0. I wanted to connect to MS 365 online service using Power Shell with C#. I have installed Office 365 cmdlets and Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant. ( Ref: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh124998.aspx#BKMK_install )

My script is:

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "xxxxx" -AsPlainText –Force $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential("[email protected]",$password) $cred = Get-Credential -cred $credential Import-Module MSOnline Connect-Msolservice -cred $cred

I can successfully run this script in the Power Shell Command window. But I have problem running this script in c# application.

Here is my c# code:

 public void RunScript() { StringBuilder ss = new StringBuilder(); ss.AppendLine("$password = ConvertTo-SecureString \"" + pwd + "\" -AsPlainText –Force"); ss.AppendLine("$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential(\"" + userName + "\",$password)"); ss.AppendLine("$cred = Get-Credential -cred $credential"); ss.AppendLine("Import-Module MSOnline"); ss.AppendLine("Connect-Msolservice -cred $cred"); using (Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace()) { Collection<PSObject> results = null; try { runspace.Open(); Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline(); pipeline.Commands.AddScript(ss.toString()); results = pipeline.Invoke(); } finally { runspace.Close(); } } }

I get the following exception:

The term 'Connect-Msolservice' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Is there anything missing?

Thanks

David Brabant · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-16 06:22:57Z

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InitialSessionState iss = InitialSessionState.CreateDefault(); iss.ImportPSModule(new string[] { "MSOnline" }); using (Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(iss)) { // blah }

answered Apr 16, 2012 at 6:22

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4 Comments

Prakash Over a year ago

Well thanks for the comment. I will try with your suggestion also. However, I have found the reason why it didn't recognize the "Connect-Msolservice" command. The reason was simple. I had created a console application whose Platform target is x86 while my dev machine is Microsoft Server 2008 64bit where I have installed MS Online Service module (64bits). By changing the Platform target to any cpu solve the issue.

Prakash Over a year ago

Hi David,I tried with the above solution but the same result (no success). BTW. It seems that cmdlets of MS Online service module (64bits) has to be executed/run from the 64bits Process/application. This is what I have experienced. Please share if you have any idea on this.

ACR Over a year ago

Thanks for sharing, Prakash. I ran into the same issue.

Auri Rahimzadeh Over a year ago

I was having problems, then, on my 64-bit Windows 10 machine, in Project properties, I set Build -> Platform Target to x64 and the script imported the module successfully.

Bayzid · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-11 14:01:40Z

Please make sure you have installed following things:

 1. SharePoint Online Management Shell 2. Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant version 7.0 or greater version 3. Windows Azure Active Directory Module

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