Retrieve list of office365 users in Batches

Question

Hi, 
  I want to retrieve all the users list in batches through powershell. Suppose say that i have some around 1000 users on office365 but i want to get a list of users in batch of 100 for 10 batches. I use the get-msolUser to get all results.
Note: As i checked the order of list is obtained is according to the ObjectId values in ascending order.Can i confirm with you that the order of the users will be based on ascending order of ObjectId???
Thanks,
Satya

Answer 1

Satya,
I think these cmdlets do the bulk of the work on the client side in RAM, when you are doing a "Get" cmdlet, there may be some small impact on the server side, but I believe most of the impact is on the client side.  
It looks like Powershell 3.0 and above, has some optimization of the Select cmdlet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849895.aspx). 
As a rule of thumb you should filter as much as possible before using a pipe or processing results from a cmdlet, to help keep the demand for resources at a minimum, when doing your scripts.  Generally speaking, if the cmdlet you are running has ways
of filtering the results, use as many as you can.  In the case of Get-MsolUser, perhaps instead of  just using, 
Get-MsolUser -MaxResults 100
Maybe you want to use add
Get-MsolUser -EnabledFilter EnabledOnly -MaxResults 100
Along with some other filters possibly. That way when you get to the pipe and use select, sort, select, or foreach, your not doing all of your filtering as your processing results which can really eat up resource, depending on how many objects your cmdlet retrieved, and how many properties they have.