PowerShell connection from MacOS not working

[Bikash Maharjan]

I trying PowerShell 7 on MacOS and I have installed SharePoint Online Management Shell but the "Connect-SPOService" command is not found. 

Get-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell* -ListAvailable | Select-Object Name,Version | Sort-Object Version -Descending

Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell 16.0.20017.12000

[#2]

@Bikash Maharjan 

I have found that my attempts to get PowerShell to work on MacOS have resulted in limited success.  Each time I try it, there seems to be slightly more functionality, but it really has a long way to go.  It's too frustrating at the moment to try and make it work, so for any PowerShell I just revert to my Windows 10 device for the time being.

[#3]

@PeterRising Thanks for confirmation - I was wondering if it was just my setup. 

[#4]

Hi @Bikash Maharjan , I run into the same or at least similar problem. Let me first explain why I want to use PowerShell end then explain the problem that I ran into (similar to your problem).

I don't have a PC, I work with a MacBookPro. What I want to do is setup scripts with help of PowerShell, to create Team sites with Teams plus a few dedicated Lists which I need to provide to customers in order to allow a PowerApp read/write data on that list.

Using latest OSX, I wanted to set up PowerShell for MacOS. Following all provided information in Microsoft Help docs:

- installed HomeBrew (succes),

- installed PowerShell v 7 (succes)

- imported various modules:

• Teams (Succes)
• AZ (Succes)

• Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell (???).

If I then run a get-help on 'connect*' I get:

• Connect-AzAccount from module Az.Accounts

• Connect-MicrosoftTeams from module MicrosoftTeams

So, apparently, while there is no sign that the SPO module was not successfully imported, it is not possible to connect to SPO. Hence when I run (with the variables set to the correct values)

"Connect-SPOService -Url https://$orgName-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential"

I get the response:

"Connect-SPOService: The term 'Connect-SPOService' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."

Now... what to do next? I already repeated the entire installation: no effect. So now I think about setting up PowerShell though Azure. Do you or anyone else have an idea how to do that? Help is much appreciated! 

[#5]

@Bikash Maharjan I have spent several hours attempting to get this to work, to come to the same conclusion: the Install-Module command seems to work, but then doesn't seem to actually install what's needed.

In less than 5 minutes, I fired up Parallels and had everything working in Windows 10, doing exactly the same thing I was attempting in MacOS.

Is there some technical problem to be fixed by Microsoft?

[#6]

@Jamesr2049 

This is more something for Apple to fix than Microsoft I think.

[#7]

@PeterRising Indeed, Peter, I had the same problem, but at some point was informed by someone from PowerShell development that this is indeed not working. So, I made my Mac dual boot and installed a full Windows 10 using Bootcamp. Works perfect.