How to fix “The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”

In this troubleshooting article, we will learn about How to fix “The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”. When we try to connect to Office 365 services, sometimes we may get the below error:

“The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”

How to fix the “The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet” error?

In order to fix the “The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet” error, we need to download and install the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals RTW which can be downloaded from here.

After installing, we can check the installation of the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals RTW from your control panel.

Then we need to open a PowerShell console as administrator and then type the below:

Install-Module MSOnline -Force

Once the above execution is done, enter the below command:

Connect-MsolService

We must connect with the global admin account.

Notes:

• If we do not install Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals RTW in we might get the above error while we run any MsolService commands such as new-msoluser, connect-msolservices, Get-MsolUser, etc. 

Summary: What do we have here (The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized)?

Thus, in this troubleshooting technique,  we have learned about how to fix the “The term ‘Get-MsolUser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet” error.

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