PowerShell for Office 365 is here – here's how to use it

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After announcing its intention to release new scripts and commands to better integrate PowerShell with Office 365,Microsoft has followed through.The newly ordained PowerShell for Office 365 features the same command-line interface found in PowerShell 5.0 – and that's because it is the same program.According to The Register, Microsoft has created "ascript libraryto help you do things like add users, control licenses, and stop people from recording Skype meetings."Before you start using it, however, you have to "import the modules corresponding to all the bits of Office 365 you want to administer, including the Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant and the Azure Active Directory Module to handle the important matters of security and authentication."The widespread use of PowerShell and its necessity for sysadmins and network admins...
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Hi, almightywiz,
Sorry for the delayed response. I was away from office for one day and did not have access to the files.
And you are right, column 11 is text and column 26 is date (i.e., numeric). And indeed, those visually blank cell in column 11 are not null but have zero length. Java can tell the difference but not by visually inspecting the cells in the spreadsheet.
I also checked the POI API documents, and found that org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell interface, which has those cell types, is implemented by both HSSFCell and XSSFCell. The question is under what condition the cell type of a cell becomes Cell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK.
While that is not yet clear, I will catch cells missing data in column 11 by checking three things: first check if(cell == null), then if(cell.getCellType() != Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING), and then if(cell.getStringCellValue().length() == 0). And that solves my problem.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and solving my problem.
I have another problem that may more serious, at Can I process Excel BIFF5 files, or simply abandon Apache POI? It would be very much appreciated if you had time to look at it.
Best regards,
Newman