Microsoft Graph PowerShell for Administrators: Learning Guide, Second Edition (E-book + Starter Script Pack)

Second edition, October 2026. A practical learning guide to managing, securing and automating Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID with Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Learn how to automate administrative tasks, manage identities, audit security, administer licences, report on tenant health and build real-world automation, with every snippet explained.

What's new in the second edition

• Part 5, Going further: admin consent and permissions, managed identities, and a real-world playbook
• Part 6, a hands-on lab guide for the Starter Script Pack
• Live lab screenshots, fixed module commands, licensing warnings, and tested versions with real lab test results (Appendix J)

What you will learn

• Connect to Microsoft Graph with the right permissions and scopes
• Find the right command and filter data on the server
• Create, change and offboard users, and manage groups and licences in bulk
• Report on admin roles, MFA, sign-in logs, audit logs, Conditional Access and devices
• Run unattended scripts with app-only sign-in, certificates and managed identities; handle paging, batching and throttling
• Replace retired MSOnline and AzureAD scripts

What is inside

• 173 pages in six parts: Foundations; Users, groups and licences; Security and governance; Advanced and automation; Going further; and the Starter Script Pack lab guide
• Exercises with full model answers, a task finder, a filter reference, troubleshooting, a glossary and an eight-week study plan
• Covers the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK version 2 and PowerShell 7

What you get

PDF (with a clickable table of contents) and ePub for e-readers. You get both files.

BONUS: Microsoft Graph Administrator Starter Script Pack. Four tested scripts you can learn from and customise: New-Hire.ps1 (onboard users from a CSV), Disable-Leaver.ps1 (offboard a user safely), Get-TenantSnapshot.ps1 (export a tenant snapshot) and Get-TenantHealth.ps1 (weekly tenant health report), plus the GraphHelpers module, a sample CSV and a lab test harness.

Try before you buy: download the free sample (Getting started and Part 1) from the preview button.

About the author

Williams Okoro has more than 20 years of experience in customer service, IT and cybersecurity. He teaches the Microsoft Premium Training through Okowil Solutions Inc. in Ottawa, Canada.

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