Can I Connect to O365 Security & Compliance center via powershell with MFA on?

VasilMichev
MVP
Aug 30, 2017
Does it work for you though? The cmdlet has been available for at least a month now, but every time I try to connect I get Access denied errors.
- ScrJeff
  Brass Contributor
  Oct 23, 2017
  MFA seems to be working for other items, but when I try Security and Compliance, I'm getting a 500 error back from the server. See below.
  
  PS C:\Users\Jeff> Connect-IPPSSession
  WARNING: Your connection has been redirected to the following URI:
  "https://nam02b.ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com/PowerShell-LiveId?BasicAuthToOAuthConversion=true;PSVersion=5.1.14409.1005 "
  New-ExoPSSession : Connecting to remote server nam02b.ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com failed with the following error message : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
  "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
  <title>500 - Internal server error.</title>
  <style type="text/css">
  
  </style>
  </head>
  <body>
  <div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
  <div id="content">
  <div class="content-container"><fieldset>
  <h2>500 - Internal server error.</h2>
  <h3>There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.</h3>
  </fieldset></div>
  </div>
  </body>
  </html>
  For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
  At C:\Users\Jeff\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\ER689GCY.C50\E15M7H1X.VJ5\micr..tion_d8f8f667ee342b5c_0010.0000_46e6ccd01daac800\CreateExoPSSession.ps1:183 char:22
  + ... PSSession = New-ExoPSSession -UserPrincipalName $UserPrincipalName -C ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [New-ExoPSSession], PSRemotingTransportException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Management.Automation.Remoting.PSRemotingDataStructureException,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ExoPowershellSnapin.NewExoP
  SSession
  - Rahul Srivastava
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 06, 2017
    Even I am getting this error, it worked fine last week and now it doesn't, almost like 2 days.
    Connecting to remote server aus01b.ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com failed with the following error message : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
    <title>500 - Internal server error.</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="header"><h1>Server Error</h1></div>
    <div id="content">
    <div class="content-container"><fieldset>
    <h2>500 - Internal server error.</h2>
    <h3>There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.</h3>
    </fieldset></div>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>
    
    Any idea?
- SATYAM GUPTA
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 31, 2017
  Hi Vasil,
  
  Yup, its working. Please check the below screenshot.
  - Shawn Saucier
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 05, 2017
    If you launch it from the "Microsoft Exchange Online Powershell Module" it works great...
    But if you do lots of PS administration of O365, it's horrible to have to launch a separate window just for this. I need to be able to have it import the commandlets from these modules into other PS consoles.
    
    I found how to do the Exchange side (link below), but cannot figure out how to do the same for the Compliance Center.
    
    Here is the short version for Exchange MFA...
    
    Import-Module $((Get-ChildItem -Path $($env:LOCALAPPDATA+"\Apps\2.0\") -Filter Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ExoPowershellModule.dll -Recurse ).FullName|?{$_ -notmatch "_none_"}|select -First 1) $EXOSession = New-ExoPSSession Import-PSSession $EXOSession
    https://github.com/Scine/Powershell/blob/master/Connect%20To%20Powershell%20with%20or%20without%202%20form%20factor%20auth%20enabled
    
    Any ideas on how to do the same for Compliance Center?
Robert Woods
Iron Contributor
Aug 30, 2017
Awesome SATYAM GUPTA!

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