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KJS
Brass Contributor
May 03, 2017

Sharepoint online management module reference broken in azure

I have a azure web job in C# where i am trying to connect to SPO through connect-sposervice. I have copied the complete Sharepoint online management shell folder from my local into my project and upl...
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Peter McDonald
Iron Contributor
May 09, 2017
It can be tricky to use the SPOnline module from a webjob as it has a lot of associated binaries, one option could be to trigger an associated Azure Automation script using a webhook to then run the PowerShell components, see here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/razi/2014/08/22/getting-started-with-sharepoint-online-automation-using-azure-runbook/

An alternative would be to use the CSOM APIs instead of using PowerShell at all, see here:
https://zimmergren.net/getting-started-with-building-azure-webjobs-timer-jobs-for-your-office-365-sites/

Hope this helps.
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KJS
Brass Contributor
May 25, 2017

Thanks Peter for the reply. I can not use csom as i need to get information from the tenant and csom does not supports the tenant or farm object informtion. 

 

I have used azure automation to host the script and moved my c# to powershell only. It helped to sort it out.

  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    May 28, 2017
    That's not correct...SPO cmdlets are built on top of CSOM and in CSOM you have a tenant assembly you can use to work at the tenant level...and just as a reminder, in SPO the highest level you can work is the tenant level, no the farm one
    • KJS's avatar
      KJS
      Brass Contributor
      May 30, 2017

      Hi Juan,

       

      What i was trying to do was get the site collections list in the tenant and details, I did not get any object in C# to access the tenant object , I could see there is a third party dll in nuget which i could use to get the tenant object but i wanted to stick to microsoft.

       

      If you can share some example or some article that would be good to know for future knowoledge.

       

       

      Thanks,

      KJ

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