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Add Alternate Email Address or Recovery Email Address for Office365 Administrator

September 6, 2017 by mo wasay

In Office365, depending on the admin role of an account you may want to add an alternate email address for password recovery. This is a basically a self-service password reset for Administrators of Office365. Quick way to do this is with PowerShell:

#Connect to Office365
Import-Module MSOnline
Connect-MsolService
$O365Cred = Get-Credential
$O365Session = New-PSSession â€“ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $O365Session

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)
Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com | select -ExpandProperty AlternateEmailaddresses

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)
Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com -AlternateEmailAddresses mwasay@domain2.com

#Connect to Office365

Import-Module MSOnline

Connect-MsolService

$O365Cred = Get-Credential

$O365Session = New-PSSession â€“ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $O365Session

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)

Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com | select -ExpandProperty AlternateEmailaddresses

#Check if the user has an Alternate Email Address (Recovery Address)

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName mwasay@domain.com -AlternateEmailAddresses mwasay@domain2.com

If this setting is unset for an administrator, Office365 gives you a … Read moreAdd Alternate Email Address or Recovery Email Address for Office365 Administrator

Map a network drive using PowerShell

August 16, 2017 by mo wasay

Make sure you are using the latest version of PowerShell. On Windows 8/10 run it as administrator and type the following:

New-PSDrive â€“Name â€œZâ€ â€“PSProvider FileSystem â€“Root â€œ\\fileserver01\shareâ€ â€“Persist

1	New-PSDrive â€“Name â€œZâ€ â€“PSProvider FileSystem â€“Root â€œ\\fileserver01\shareâ€ â€“Persist

Where: Z – is the Drive Letter Within ” ” is the path of the network share that will be presented as the root of the drive letter Z The -Persist parameter so … Read moreMap a network drive using PowerShell

Lists all users last logon time

May 8, 2017 by mo wasay

As administrators we often want to check whichÂ usersÂ have not logged in for quite a while, or what accounts recently accessed a system, etc. The following script list all users and their last logon time. With the lastloggeduser.csv we can get fancy with excel to find differences based on age and more.

$([ADSI]"WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME").Children | where {$_.SchemaClassName -eq 'user'} | select @{l='name';e={$_.name}},@{l='LastLogin';e={$_.lastlogin}} | export-csv C:\scripts\lastloggedusers.csv

1	$([ADSI]"WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME").Children \| where {$_.SchemaClassName -eq 'user'} \| select @{l='name';e={$_.name}},@{l='LastLogin';e={$_.lastlogin}} \| export-csv C:\scripts\lastloggedusers.csv

Resolve IP Addresses from List of Host Names

April 25, 2017 by mo wasay

If you have a list of hostnames/servers that you need IP addresses for its cumbersome to ping each server and get the ip address. PowerShell to the rescue! To do this we need a file called Server.txt with each server’s hostname on each line. I am storing the file in D:\Data\Servers.txt. Once we run the … Read moreResolve IP Addresses from List of Host Names

Connecting to a remote domain controller using PowerShell

April 15, 2020April 25, 2017 by mo wasay

Covering one of the basic day to day task if you are a Windows Administrator; connecting to the domain controller. Â I try to minimize logging onto servers as much as possible. Â Your thought should be around connecting to the server remotely and doing the work as needed instead of natively logging on to it. I … Read moreConnecting to a remote domain controller using PowerShell