Lync Online - WinRM Nightmare

PowerShell Help
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Hi Everyone,

Me again! Sorry to be a pain!

So we have a proxy in place on our systems which was preventing us from accessing Powershell and we were seeing the usual WinRM message. This is no longer an issue after adding $proxyOptions = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig to the script.

When I try and connect to Lync Online via PowerShell I can’t seem to get access for the life of me. I always get the following:

New-PSSession : [ps.outlook.com] Connecting to remote server ps.outlook.com failed
with the following error message : WinRM cannot process the request. The following
error occurred while using Kerberos authentication: Cannot find the computer
ps.outlook.com. Verify that the computer exists on the network and that the name
provided is spelled correctly. For more information, see the
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:6

  • $a = New-PSSession -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell - …
  •  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    • CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme…RemoteRunspace:RemoteRun
      space) [New-PSSession], PSRemotingTransportException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : NetworkPathNotFound,PSSessionOpenFailed

If I try and incorporate the proxy line into the script it doesn’t appear to make any difference. Have any of you guys come across this in the past?

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I’ve not, and frankly I’d open a support incident with Microsoft. I mean, you pay for this service. But verify that Kerberos is what you’re supposed to be using - I wasn’t expecting that. Kerberos is going to look in your local AD for a ticket, which it obviously isn’t going to get. You sure you’re not supposed to be using Basic over SSL or something else?