My presentation at M365 May on how to automate Office 365 Administration with Azure Automation

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LET’S AUTOMATE OFFICE 365
ADMINISTRATION WITH AZURE
AUTOMATION & POWERSHELL

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5. YOUR SPEAKER
Sylver SCHORGEN
New Caledonia
MVP Cloud & Datacenter Management
Office 365 & SharePoint Consultant
PowerShell since 2012
Contact me :
Email : contact@schorgen.com
Twitter : @sylver_schorgen
Linkedin : sylverschorgen
Blog : https://bit.ly/2OZz30R

6. OUR AGENDA
 Automation
 Azure Automation
 Demos

7. AUTOMATION

8. THE DEFINITION OF AUTOMATION
 Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is
performed without human assistance
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation

9. MY VISION OF AUTOMATION

10. SOME MICROSOFT TOOLS

11. AZURE AUTOMATION

12. AZURE AUTOMATION OVERVIEW
 Cloud-based automation and configuration service
 Process automation, Configuration management, Update management
 Shared Capabilities
 Variables, Credentials, PowerShell Modules, Schedules
 Serverless
 No more Windows VM 

13. AZURE AUTOMATION OVERVIEW
 The ability to run PowerShell in an Azure-based engine
 Enables you to manage and execute :
 PowerShell, PowerShell DSC, PowerShell Workflows
 Your automation scripts are stored in runbooks
 Runbooks execution is secured

14. AZURE AUTOMATION CONCEPTS
 Automation Account
 Container for your Azure Resources
 Runbooks
 Container for your PowerShell code
 Assets
 A reusable item within your runbooks
 Jobs
 Single execution instance of a runbook

15. AZURE AUTOMATION FOR OFFICE 365
 Some real-world automation examples for Office 365
 Create and manage Azure AD users
 Manage Office 365 licenses assignments
 Manage SharePoint Sites and Rights
 Manage Exchange Online distribution groups
 Manage Office 365 Teams
 SharePoint sites custom reports
 Exchange Online custom reports
 …

16. WHAT YOU NEED TO START
 PowerShell knowledge
 PowerShell, PowerShell DSC
 Use of modules
 Azure subscription
 $200 credit for 30 days : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
 12 months of popular free services
 25+ Always free services including Azure Automation
(500 minutes of job runtime)

17. LET’S START THE DEMOS
DEMOS ARE WORTH 100 SLIDES 

18. LICENSES ATTRIBUTION
AUTOMATION

19. THE PROCESS
 A user is created in your AD
 Wait few minutes (AAD Connect)
 Attribute a license (M365 administration center)
 Send an email to the manager (or not )

20. DISTRIBUTION LIST MANAGEMENT
AUTOMATION

21. THE PROCESS
 Users ask you to change membership of distribution lists
 You login to Office 365 with an administrator account
 Go to ECP
 Go to Groups
 Manage the Distribution Group membership

22. ONBOARDING PROCESS AUTOMATION
IN SMALL COMPANIES

23. THE PROCESS
 An employee is hired in small company
 Managed by the CEO (or HR)
 Ask the IT service company to create the user (email, …)
 The task is done before the employee arrival (not always)
 Let’s use SharePoint Online
 Online form for HR
 Start a PowerShell script to manage users

24. FINAL THOUGHTS

25. FINAL THOUGHTS

26. START TODAY
 Subscribe to Azure today
 Automate small things
 Automate boring stuff
 Automate human error prone actions
 Automate Office 365 reporting

27. SOME USEFUL LINKS
 Free Trial Azure Account ($200) : https://bit.ly/1YVX1Fo
 An introduction to Azure Automation : https://bit.ly/2Jc8krI
 Azure Automation User Documentation : https://bit.ly/2ycuDKu
 Runbooks type : https://bit.ly/2pOOgnw
 Azure AD Module documentation : https://bit.ly/2j0eTWx
 Onboarding machines for management by Azure Automation State Configuration :
https://bit.ly/2pOOgnw

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