Microsoft 365 Community Getting Started with SharePoint and Office 365 development, 12 Jul 2019

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From YouTube: Getting started with Office 365 CLI

Description

In this video Velin Georgiev (Pramerica) is showing how get started on using Office 365 CLI to manage your Office 365 tenant or adjust settings in the SharePoint Online sites.

Presenter - Velin Georgiev (Pramerica) @VelinGeorgiev

See more details around the Office 365 CLI is available from https://pnp.github.io/office365-cli/

More details on the SharePoint developer community from http://aka.ms/sppnp.

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Let's have a look at the office, 365 CLI and it's a command-line interface allows office, 365, tenant administrators, IT, pros or DevOps folks to manage their tenants or execute automated scripts, and it can run on any platform, no matter where, whether you using Mac, OS or Windows, or whether you prefer parish, shell or bash, the CLI just runs I, will follow the installation guide here and install it on my machine. So it's a prerequisite know what the GS will have to be installed. Note.

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We already have no GS installed in my machine, so the next thing to do is I'll, go and install the office. 365 CLI, we're running NPM, install that's in stock globally and that's the command for the CLI. So after I find that, hopefully that will be installed and then we can play with the CLI to see how it works. Now the starting point is to type all 365 and I will enter in interactive mode, which is slightly faster mode and I'll type.

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Anything here to see what is next, so we can see here is a different namespaces. So the commands related to Azure ad commands related to your management for managing flows, mainly commands related to the graph commands related to upgrading chirpin framework packages and many commands related to sharepoint I'll, just quickly type SPO, and when we follow that, if we type the name space, we'll get a huge list of what we can do further and in my case is I'll, try to get details through a web.

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So if we type SPO web we'll get further details, what we can do with the web and as you can see, we can create a new sign if we say espy web ad or get details about the side if we say espy award yet and the holes here. Life follows the same pattern of site and then you have ad get list removed set. So it's very easy to navigate through all the command, because mostly they follow those those buttons there. um But I need further information about the SPO web.

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Yet because I still don't know how to use it and I can type help. I can use the command with the following options and probably I'll have to specify our URL and down below. We have an examples. Probably I can just copy paste that but I also have a remarks and in remarks. It said make sure that you're logged in first before you can execute that command. So, let's go and login to my site, SPO login.

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Then there is my site over here just copy the URL and paste it here.

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Okay, now I'll have to use my browser to navigate through that URL there and paste the code that is also being specified here.

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Provide my credentials and now I have to accept the app permissions, and this is the PMP office. 365 management, shell, as a tenant I mean I, have to accept that your own application can be specified here. It's not necessarily needed to use that one, but for now I'll use that one, because it's way easier for me to set up- and we thought I should be done window and I'm logged in now. Let's try to get information about my site now, SPO what you get what URL again, there is the site.

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Before that I'll try to go into a bigger screen, because we might get a little bit more details. Let's see, enter and I've got my details for my site, so you can see we can get information the same way as we would do in in PowerShell.

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But there is another nice feature here just to show you, let's try to break if this is a non existing URL and if I try to access it, it will give me a 404, but I did it that purpose, but there might be times where I don't know what is happening and want to see Li strong error so to find out what is happening.

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Usually we can use debug, so this is specific option that if I run it with with that command, I'll get a nice log with everything what happened on the network and we can see that it executed a web request. It did something to get access token before that, and it returns some some additional response with some details and we can easily debug a command in case. It shows an error and we don't know what is happening. Another nice feature of the CLI is we can have a different output.

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The first output was in a format of a table, but in case we want to automation and we need to work with objects. We can specify output of Jason and when we run that command the returned, that the result of will be in a JSON format and we can further user in automation scripts.

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Let's try to change the title of the web, but using a different mode, so I'll exit from the interactive mode and I will just type all 365, SPO web said I hope and, as you can see, we can use it even directly from the command line. This is very useful when we have to build scripts in bash or PowerShell.

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Now, I'll try to change the title of my weapon, so just copy the command, I'm, trying to say or 365 paste the command, but I need to say that that's team B, because my site is already cold in E and I will place. My url here.

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To be based, there, you go, let's have a look if something has changed: fresh timbi, let's see how this can be used in an automation like I, have Asia DevOps here and I have a release pipeline and my release pipeline I have two steps. The first one is to install note GS and second, our one is to run a bus crib, and here is my script and, as you can see, it will run office, 365 CLI and, let's see how this might look so I have few parameters on top that I'll pass.

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3 is your DevOps, then I'm installing the CLI on that release, machine and a release agent and finally, I will login using the CLI using some credentials here we can use a different authentication type which could be password an email or it could be also certificate and, finally, I will add up to an app catalog. So I'll deploy my SharePoint framework solution, a package to an app catalog and then I will deploy it.

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As you can see, we can use the CLI in an automated pipelines for a CI CD, or has it running automated scripts on on an administrator machine on a daily basis, and with that we reached the end of my demo. So thanks for watching.