"FailureCategory=LiveID-InvalidCreds" While connecting to Office 365 through Powershell

Howdy,


I am gonna share an error and a solution today that I encountered while connecting to Exchange Online/O365.


I was using the New-Pssession to connect to Exchange online through PowerShell.


I would always end up with the following error


New-PSSession : [outlook.office365.com] Connecting to remote server outlook.office365.com failed with the following
error message :
[ClientAccessServer=,BackEndServer=,RequestId=,TimeStamp=4/17/2017
9:57:48 AM] [FailureCategory=LiveID-InvalidCreds] Access Denied For more information, see the
about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:15
+ ... XOSession = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -Conn ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : -2144108477,PSSessionOpenFailed


The user was a global Administrator on O365 so I was under the impression that it should just be enough to get this working.


Then after searching for more options, I found a place under Exchange tab, where in we can provide permissions for the Management. All you need to do is:


1. Go to Office 365 Portal
2. Click on Admin
3. Click on Exchange( it will open up a new window)
4. Click on Permissions as seen below:





5. Click on Organization Management:









6. Under members add the user account that you are trying to connect through PowerShell.





Once this is done. Authenticate again using a new powershell window and you are all set.