MicrosoftPlaces 1.2.0 Preview

Hi All,

I few days ago, Microsoft has released a Preview Version of the MicrosoftPlaces PowerShell Module.

MicrosoftPlaces 1.2.0-alpha

Release Notes:

• 1.2.0 Add-WifiDevices: Fix current directory issue and refine output messages.
• 1.1.0 Add-WifiDevices: Introduces a new cmdlet to upload Wi-Fi devices in bulk to the Device Inventory.

You need to use the -Prerelease Parameter to list Preview Versions of a PowerShell Module

Get-InstalledPSResource -Name MicrosoftPlaces -Scope CurrentUser
Find-PSResource -Name MicrosoftPlaces -Prerelease

Uninstall the current Module and install the Preview Version of the Module

Uninstall-PSResource -Name MicrosoftPlaces -Scope CurrentUser
Install-PSResource -Name MicrosoftPlaces -Scope CurrentUser -Prerelease
Get-InsalledPSResource -Name MicrosoftPlaces -Scope CurrentUser

List the cmdlets of the PowerShell Module. You can see the new Add-WifiDevices commandlet

Get-Command -Module MicrosoftPlaces

Let’s check the Help for the Command. It seem’s like its just a Bulk Option for New-PlaceDevice

Get-Help Add-WifiDevices

For WLAN you need the BSSID of your WLAN Accesspoint. It’s basically the MAC Address of the Accesspoint. You can figure out the SSID and MAC Addresses with this Command while not beeing connected to one of the WLAN’s.

netsh wlan show network mode=bssid

Show the current Configuration of Places

Connect-MicrosoftPlaces
Get-PlaceV3 | ft

You need to create a CSV with Columns “BSSID” and “BuildingName”

You need also a CSV with Columns “BuildingName” and “PlacesDirectoryBuildingName”

It reminds me a bit to my Blog Article Microsoft Teams Emergency Calling Switzerland

Now we can run the command and use the two CSV Files

Add-WifiDevices -Action "UploadEntries" -InputFilePath "C:\Temp\BSSID_Buildings.csv" -BuildingMappingFile "C:\Temp\BuildingMap.csv"

I’ve rerun the same command with the same csv files and this time there are no errors

You can check the Config with the following Command

Get-PlaceDevice

Regards
Andres Bohren