With the latest
version of SharePoint Online Management Shell a new PowerShell cmdlet called Revoke-SPOUserSession
was released. This cmdlet allows us to terminate all sessions established by a
particular user to SharePoint online. Terminating user session remotely is
pretty handy in situations where a users’s device is lost and you want to
protect corporate data from unauthorized access. Revoke-SPOUserSession cmdlet
is pretty simple to use and below are the steps for using it
Note: The latest
version of SharePoint Online Management Shell is required to execute the
Revoke-SPOUSerSession cmdlet. This can
be downloaded form https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588
1.
Run the SharePoint Online
Management Shell and connect to SharePoint Online tenant as a global admin.
2.
Execute the Revoke-SPOUserSession
cmdlet by passing the name of the user for whom you want to terminate sessions.
E.g. Revoke-SPOUserSession – User username@mycompanysite.com
3.
You would be prompted to confirm
the action and once you confirm by giving yes the user session will be terminated
from all devices that he has logged on to and a success message will be
displayed.
4.
If you don’t want the confirmation
prompt you could pass the value of false to Confirm parameter
E.g. Revoke-SPOUserSession – User username@mycompanysite.com –
Confirm:$false
