Installation

Install the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite toolkit:

Install-Module -Name Microsoft-Extractor-Suite

Install the Powershell module Microsoft.Graph for the Graph API Beta functionalities:

Install-module -name Microsoft.Graph

Install the Powershell module ExchangeOnlineManagement for the Microsoft 365 functionalities:

Install-module -name ExchangeOnlineManagement

Install the Powershell module Az for the Azure Activity log functionality:

Install-module -name Az

Install the Powershell module AzureADPreview for the Azure Active Directory functionalities:

Install-Module -Name AzureADPreview

Note

If you receive an error message indicating that the specified commands already exist on your system, you can resolve the issue by including the “-AllowClobber” parameter in the “Install-Module” command. This parameter will allow the installation process to overwrite any existing versions of the module and replace them with the newer version.

Getting Started

To get started with the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite tool, make sure the requirements are met.

The first step is to import or install the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite.

To import the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite:

Import-Module .\Microsoft-Extractor-Suite.psd1

To install the Microsoft-Extractor-Suite:

Install-Module -Name Microsoft-Extractor-Suite

Additionally, you must sign-in to Microsoft 365 or Azure depending on your usage before Microsoft-Extractor-Suite functions are made available. We made a graphic to help you decide which Connect function you should use depening on what you wan to acquire.

To sign in, use the following cmdlets:

Connect-M365
Connect-Azure
Connect-AzureAZ