The building blocks of PowerShell are called cmdlets (pronounced command-lets). Cmdlets allow us to get things done in PowerShell. A cmdlet is a lightweight command that is used in the Windows PowerShell environment. The Windows PowerShell runtime evokes these cmdlets within the context of automation scripts that are provided at the command line. We can put multiple cmdlets together into a set of commands to run all at once, or we can place them in a file with the extension .ps1 to create a PowerShell script that we can run manually or using a scheduler. In Office 365, the following cmdlets are commonly used:
- Get-MsolUser
- New-MsolUser
In PowerShell, cmdlets follow a pattern with verb-noun syntax. For example, to manage users, the syntax is <Verb>-MSOL<Noun>.
Here, MSOL stands for Microsoft Online.
To manage SharePoint Online, the syntax is <Verb>-SPO<Noun>.
SPO is SharePoint Online.
The following is the list of the most commonly used verbs in PowerShell:
- Get
- Set
- Add
- New
- Remove
- Connect
- Disconnect
- Test
- Enable
- Disable
- Invoke
- Start
- Stop