New AzureAD Module for Office 365

What is new?

The Update was made as Microsoft wanted to maintain the capabilities equivalent between our Graph API and our PowerShell cmdlets

What is in for me? What should I take care?

Yes, what this means that if(most of us would have) written some scripts that give us certain

All the commands where you used MSOL, you would be using AzureAD

Like for example

Instead of Connect-MsolService -credential we would be using Connect-AzureAD.

Instead of Get-MSOLUser we would be using Get-AzureADUser

How should I Install the new module?

Installing the new module is fairly simple.

Open Powershell with Admin privileges

Run the command Install-Module AzureAD

It automatically connects to Powershell gallery and downloads and Installs the module. If you have not installed any other module this way then it might require your permissions to connect to PowerShell gallery and install modules

We can see the installed Module in this location "C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules"

We can check the Module information by running the below command

Should I do change to it asap?

Yes and No.

The below was mentioned in Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog

• The new Azure AD PowerShell v2.0 module don’t provide full functional parity with the older MSOL module yet. We’re working hard to make that happen in the coming months and will keep you updated on our progress.
• We are not planning to publish new functionality in the MSOL PowerShell module. Over time we will implement all the functionality of the old MSOL cmdlets in the new module, and this new module contains quite a few new cmdlets that haven’t been available before.

So essentially the current scripts that you have will probably not have all the corresponding commands in the new module, so it's better to wait until all the commands are imported to the new module. But in the meantime admins can install this in their test environment and test and get familiarize with the new commands.

Also below are the commands that are available when this blog is published. If your scripts utilize only these commands then you can start using the new module

Current set of commands that are available in the module are

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