The Term 'Connect-ExchangeOnline' is Not Recognized

You may receive the following error message when trying to connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell:

PS C:\> Connect-ExchangeOnline
Connect-ExchangeOnline: The term 'Connect-ExchangeOnline' is not recognized
as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.

This indicates that the ExchangeOnline PowerShell module is missing from your system.

Fortunately, you can fix this easily by running the below PowerShell command:

Install-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement

This command automatically connects to the PowerShell Gallery and downloads the latest version of the ExchangeOnline module.

Once the download completes, you’re ready to connect to your Exchange Online. This should now result in the following pretty output:

PS C:\> Connect-ExchangeOnline
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This V3 EXO PowerShell module contains new REST API backed Exchange Online cmdlets which doesn't
require WinRM for Client-Server communication. You can now run these cmdlets after turning off
WinRM Basic Auth in your client machine thus making it more secure.
Unlike the EXO* prefixed cmdlets, the cmdlets in this module support full functional parity with
the RPS (V1) cmdlets.
V3 cmdlets in the downloaded module are resilient to transient failures, handling retries and
throttling errors inherently.
However, REST backed EOP and SCC cmdlets are not available yet. To use those, you will need to
enable WinRM Basic Auth.
For more information check https://aka.ms/exov3-module
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PS C:\>

For advanced troubleshooting of the ExchangeOnline module or running commands from the module, please read this article.

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