Playing around with the Office 365 Service Communications API

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Office 365 Service Communications API provides information about Microsoft 365 service status for your tenant including service messages. I built a little PowerShell module to access the API with PowerShell cmdlets. In this post I want to show you some examples which help you to use the API.

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I built a PowerShell module to access Microsoft 365 service status details natively with PowerShell. The PowerShell module and documentation is available on the PowerShell Gallery and on GitHub.

Before using the module an app registration is required. Setup instructions are also provided on GitHub.

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By leveraging Azure DevOps I created a build and release pipeline which automatically builds the PowerShell module with Plaster.

Builds are only created if the commit on GitHub includes a version tag. This version tag gets automatically populated to the module manifest.

The build artifact gets then automatically published to the PowerShell Gallery as a new version. Furthermore, a new GitHub release including the module artifact is added to the project.

This process fully automates the publishing and build process for the module. For local development and maintenance, the module can also be built with Invoke-Build.

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Playing around with the Office 365 Service Communications API

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