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Provisioning a New Office 365 User and Mailbox from Exchange Hybrid via PowerShell
Working with many Office365 clients, I receive queries on how to go about provisioning users and mailboxes for an Exchange hybrid deployment.…
Programming
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Add Alternate Email Address or Recovery Email Address for Office365 Administrator
In Office365, depending on the admin role of an account you may want to add an alternate email address for password recovery.…
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Map a network drive using PowerShell
Make sure you are using the latest version of PowerShell. On Windows 8/10 run it as administrator and type the following: New-PSDrive…
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Lists all users last logon time
As administrators we often want to check which users have not logged in for quite a while, or what accounts recently accessed a system,…
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Resolve IP Addresses from List of Host Names
If you have a list of hostnames/servers that you need IP addresses for its cumbersome to ping each server and get the…
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Connecting to a remote domain controller using PowerShell
Covering one of the basic day to day task if you are a Windows Administrator; connecting to the domain controller. Â I try…
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Creating Security Groups for File Shares in Bulk using PowerShell
Security Groups are great for managing large groups for permissions. Â A client requested that they needed to have Read-Only, Read-Write, and Ready-Modify…
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Remove duplicates, blank lines, spaces, to get unique values and sort data in one operation
From time to time I come across this need; where I need to scrub a file where there are duplicates, there are…
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Delete Files and Folders Older Than X Days
Often times admin have to creates tasks like removing log files or some other files on a regular schedule. Here is an…
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Check Proxy settings from Powershell
To check the proxy settings like ProxyOveride or if it is enabled or not: Get-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" To disable proxy from…