Failed to resolve tenant name from SMTP address [FailureCategory=Cafe-HttpProxyException]

Question

I am trying to connect O365 exchange / Exchange Online from powershell, I am using this link as guide.

however after running this powershell command

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

I am getting below error

This is error message

New-PSSession : [outlook.office365.com] Connecting to remote server outlook.office365.com failed with the following error message : [ClientAccessServer=SG2PR01CA0093,BackEndServer=,RequestId=2498a60b-034b-40d1-9e57-3e04fdae8d5f,TimeStamp=4/16/2019 9:48:00 AM] [FailureCategory=Cafe-HttpProxyException] Failed to resolve tenant name from SMTP address '[email protected]'. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. At line:1 char:12 + $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -Conne ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin gTransportException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : -2144108477,PSSessionOpenFailed

Answer 1

It was username / password issue, I was copy-pasting the username and password and while copy-pasting it was taking space in password.

Answer 2

This can be caused by a lack of an Exchange subscription