Short takes: PowerShell to examine Azure AD tenants; check which Office 365 datacentre you're using

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PowerShell to get your Azure Active Directory tenant ID

Whilst researching Office 365 tenant names and their significance, I stumbled across some potentially useful PowerShell to read your Azure Active Directory tenant ID.

Get-AzureAccount

I’m not sure how to map that tenant ID (or even the subscription ID, which doesn’t seem to relate to any of my Office 365 subscriptions) to something meaningful… but it might be useful one day…

Script to retrieve basic Office 365 tenant details

I also found a script on the Microsoft TechNet Gallery to retrieve basic details for an Office 365 tenant (using Get-MsolDomain, Get-MSolAccountSku and Get-MSRole).

Check which datacentre you’re connected to in Exchange Online

Office 365 uses some smart DNS tricks to point you at the nearest Microsoft datacentre and then route requests across the Microsoft network. If you want to try this out and see where your requests are heading, just ping outlook.office365.com and see the name of the host that replies:

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Short takes: PowerShell to examine Azure AD tenants; check which Office 365 datacentre you’re using

PowerShell to get your Azure Active Directory tenant ID

Script to retrieve basic Office 365 tenant details

Check which datacentre you’re connected to in Exchange Online

One thought on “Short takes: PowerShell to examine Azure AD tenants; check which Office 365 datacentre you’re using”

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