Azure Active Directory Authentication with OfficeDev PnP PowerShell

This is a first post in a series of 2. See http://www.erwinmcm.com/azure-active-directory-app-only-authentication-with-officedev-pnp-powershell for the second post). Today I released an update to the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet so that you can use it to create a connection using an Azure AD client ID. Notice that this release is currently (July 2015) not available in the master branch, but right now only in the dev branch. So if you want to use this right now, make sure you have the latest dev branch available. Continue reading

Azure Active Directory App Only Authentication with OfficeDev PnP PowerShell

Notice: this is the second post in a series of 2. See http://www.erwinmcm.com/azure-active-directory-authentication-with-officedev-pnp-powershell for the first post). If you read the first post and managed to connect succesfully to SharePoint Online with your Azure AD application client ID, you have noticed that you are prompted for a username and password. While that might be okay for incidental use, if you want to automate and/or schedule a PowerShell script this is obviously not a solution. Continue reading