Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365

In order to automate some tasks in Office 365 with PowerShell, sometimes you may want to send a confirmation email or a daily report by email. Luckily, there is an easy PowerShell cmdlet called “Send-MailMessage” that allows you to send an email with Exchange Server. You can also do that in Office 365, but you need to specify an important parameter: The Port number. Office 365 only accepts emails on Port 587 and secured by SSL.

So the code to send an email is pretty easy:

$cred = get-credential
$body = “Just a test email”
Send-MailMessage -To vlad@demo.com -from noreply@demo.com -Subject 'test' -Body $body -BodyAsHtml -smtpserver smtp.office365.com -usessl -Credential $cred -Port 587 

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