📖 Original Reference: Originally published with full script translation matrices and Graph SDK pipelines at alexmaina.dev/ms365 .

Microsoft has officially retired the legacy AzureAD and MSOnline (MSOL) PowerShell modules. Any legacy scripts still executing Get-AzureADUser , Set-MsolUserLicense , or Connect-MsolService face broken endpoints, authentication failures, and deprecation notices.

The replacement is the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK ( Microsoft.Graph ) . However, migrating isn't just a simple 1:1 cmdlet rename: the Graph SDK has fundamentally different scoping, JSON-based payload structures, and paging mechanisms.

Here is the practical, crash-course guide to modernizing your scripts for Microsoft Graph PowerShell v2, including unattended certificate authentication for CI/CD runners.

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