{"id":7447,"date":"2023-12-19T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T11:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2023-12-19T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T11:17:41","slug":"getting-connection-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/exchange\/getting-connection-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Connection Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Probably of use to others, I dunno, but one thing I always want to know is what all Graph, Exchange Online, or PnP PowerShell my current PowerShell session is connected to. Coz if it’s already connected I don’t need to fuss about and reconnect.<\/p>\n

I guess there’s some way of adding it to fancy prompt engines like oh-my-posh<\/a>, but all I wanted was a cmdlet I could run to view this. So I wrote up:<\/p>\n

function Get-MyConnectionInformation {\r\n    $snippetsHash = @{\r\n        \"Graph\" = @{\r\n            \"Status\" = \"\"\r\n            \"Snippet\" = \"\"\r\n            \"CombinedSnippet\" = \"\"\r\n        }\r\n        \"Exchange Online\" = @{\r\n            \"Status\" = \"\"\r\n            \"Snippet\" = \"\"\r\n            \"CombinedSnippet\" = \"\"\r\n        }\r\n        \"PnP PowerShell\" = @{\r\n            \"Status\" = \"\"\r\n            \"Snippet\" = \"\"\r\n            \"CombinedSnippet\" = \"\"\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    if (Get-MgContext) {\r\n        $snippetsHash.Graph.Snippet = \"Connected to $((Get-MgContext).AppName)\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.Graph.Status = $true\r\n    } else {\r\n        $snippetsHash.Graph.Snippet = \"Disconnected\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.Graph.Status = $false\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    if (Get-ConnectionInformation) {\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"Exchange Online\".Snippet = \"Connected to $((Get-ConnectionInformation).Organization)\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"Exchange Online\".Status = $true\r\n    } else {\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"Exchange Online\".Snippet = \"Disconnected\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"Exchange Online\".Status = $false\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    try {\r\n        $pnpTemp = Get-PnpConnection -ErrorAction Stop\r\n    } catch {}\r\n    \r\n    if ($pnpTemp) {\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"PnP PowerShell\".Snippet = \"Connected to $($pnpTemp.Url)\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"PnP PowerShell\".Status = $true\r\n    } else {\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"PnP PowerShell\".Snippet = \"Disconnected\"\r\n        $snippetsHash.\"PnP PowerShell\".Status = $false\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    # An array holding all the snippets\r\n    $allSnippets = @()\r\n    # For each entity create the combined snippet (so I can find the one with the longest length) and also add it to the above array\r\n    foreach ($key in $snippetsHash.Keys) {\r\n        $snippetsHash.$key.CombinedSnippet = $key + \"|\" + $snippetsHash.$key.\"Snippet\"\r\n        $allSnippets += $snippetsHash.$key.CombinedSnippet\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    # Find the longest snippet\r\n    $longestSnippet =  $allSnippets | Sort-Object -Property Length -Descending | Select-Object -First 1\r\n\r\n    # For each entity now do the actual outputting, taking into account the longest one and adding dots in between\r\n    foreach ($key in $snippetsHash.Keys) {\r\n        $snippet = $snippetsHash.$key.\"CombinedSnippet\"\r\n\r\n        if ($snippet -eq $longestSnippet) {\r\n            $numDots = 5\r\n        } else {\r\n            $numDots = $longestSnippet.Length - $snippet.Length + 5\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        # Parts of the final output\r\n        $snippet1 = $key\r\n        $snippet2 = $snippetsHash.$key.Snippet\r\n        \r\n        Write-Host -NoNewline $snippet1\r\n        $counter = 0\r\n        do {\r\n            Write-Host -NoNewline \".\"\r\n            $counter ++\r\n        } while ($counter -lt $numDots)\r\n\r\n        if ($snippetsHash.$key.Status) {\r\n            Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green $snippet2\r\n        } else {\r\n            Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $snippet2\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}<\/pre>\n
It’s more complicated than it needs to be, but that’s because I wanted to get output like this:<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
Or:<\/p>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
Neat, eh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Probably of use to others, I dunno, but one thing I always want to know is what all Graph, Exchange Online, or PnP PowerShell my current PowerShell session is connected to. Coz if it’s already connected I don’t need to fuss about and reconnect. I guess there’s some way of adding it to fancy prompt … Continue reading Getting Connection Information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[887,86],"tags":[227],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7453,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}