How to set-up SharePoint Management Shell Environment for SharePoint Online Global Administrators

Set up the SharePoint Online Management Shell environment for SharePoint Online global administrators

Perform the following:

1. Install Windows PowerShell 3.0 from Windows Management Framework 3.0.
2. Install the SharePoint Online Management Shell from the Microsoft Download Center.
3. Click Start>All Programs>SharePoint Online Management Shell.
4. Run Connect-SPOService. For example, Connect-SPOService -Url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com -credential admin@contoso.com, where:
• Url is the URL of the SharePoint Online Administration Center.
• Credential is the user name to which you want to grant access to the SharePoint Online Administration Center site.
5. Try it out! For example, run Get-SPOSite to get a list of all sites.

More Commands:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161388.aspx#ae4901b4-505a-42a9-b8d4-fca778abc12e

Unable to change/upload profile picture getting error ‘You don't have sufficient permissions. To get permissions, contact your administrator’

To resolve this issue please follow the below steps:

1. Run Windows PowerShell as Administrator

2. Run the following cmdlets to connect PowerShell to Exchange Online:

         a. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

         b. $LiveCred = Get-Credential

         c. $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUrips.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection

         d. Import-PSSession $session

3. Run command to upload and change the photo. Please change the marked part to match your system.

      Set-UserPhoto <Admin> -PictureData ([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("C:\Admin.jpg")) -identity id@domain.onmicrosoft.com

4. Run following command to retrieve the RBAC version of your tenant. It is a potential cause of this problem

      Get-OrganizationConfig | fl RBACConfigurationVersion

I understand it is only a workaround, not the solution. The result of the last command will help to address the root cause. So please try all these steps and let me know the result.

Reference:

http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/148/t/192016.aspx?PageIndex=2