Using New-MailContact, Set-MailContact, and Set-Contact inside background jobs - powershell

Question

Here's the updated, still getting the same errors.
$UserCredential = Get-Credential
$contacts = Import-Csv "C:\temp\testgal.csv"
Start-Job -Name Loop -ScriptBlock {
param([pscustomobject[]]$contacts, [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential[]]$UserCredential)
$session2 = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $session2
Connect-MsolService -cred $UserCredential
foreach ($c in $contacts){
........
}
} -ArgumentList (,$contacts, $UserCredential)
Wait-Job -State Running | Receive-Job
Get-Job -State Completed | Remove-Job
I'm trying to create a vast number of contacts in 365 using a script and would like to run parallel jobs to speed it up, I built a loop inside a job and tested it worked using the following inside the loop to make sure it could extract the correct variables from the CSV.
$name = $c1.displayname
New-Item -Path "C:\Temp\Output" -Name "$name" -ItemType "file"
Now when I attempt to run the loop with the commands in the title as below
$contacts = Import-Csv "C:\temp\gal\testgal.csv"
Start-Job -Name Loop -ScriptBlock {
param([pscustomobject[]]$contacts)
foreach ($c in $contacts){
$name = $c.displayName
$rawProxy = $c.proxyAddresses
$proxysplit = $rawproxy -split '(?<!\\);'
$proxyquoted = $proxysplit.replace('x500','"x500').replace('x400','"x400').replace('X500','"X500').replace('X400','"X400')
$proxy = $proxyquoted
New-MailContact -ExternalEmailAddress $c.Mail -Name "`"$name`"" -Alias $c.mailNickname -DisplayName $name -FirstName $c.givenName -Initials $c.initials -LastName $c.sn -AsJob
Set-MailContact -Identity $c.mailNickname -CustomAttribute1 "CreatedWithScript" -CustomAttribute3 $c.extensionAttribute3 -EmailAddresses $proxy -AsJob
Set-Contact -Identity $c.mailNickname -City $c.l -Company $c.company -Department $c.department -Office $c.physicalDeliveryOfficeName `
-Phone $c.telephoneNumber -PostalCode $c.postalCode -Title $c.title -AsJob
}
} -ArgumentList (,$contacts)
Wait-Job -State Completed | Receive-Job
Get-Job -State Completed | Remove-Job
It fails saying the following for each loop:
The term 'New-MailContact' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (New-MailContact:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
+ PSComputerName : localhost
The term 'Set-MailContact' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Set-MailContact:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
+ PSComputerName : localhost
The term 'Set-Contact' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Set-Contact:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
+ PSComputerName : localhost
Is there a trick to running these commands inside background jobs?

Answer 1

You need to import the correct powershell module, in this case the Office365:
Import-Module MSOnline
You will also need to authenticate so pass username and password down to your job and create credentials objects:
$contacts = Import-Csv "C:\temp\gal\testgal.csv"
Start-Job -Name Loop -ScriptBlock {
param([pscustomobject[]]$contacts, [string]$username, [string]$password)
Import-Module MSOnline
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $secpasswd)
$O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $creds -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Connect-MsolService –Credential $creds
foreach ($c in $contacts){
...
}
} -ArgumentList (,$contacts, $username, $password)
Wait-Job -State Completed | Receive-Job
Get-Job -State Completed | Remove-Job
NB. This is untested but should put you on the right track.