Administrator – Mohammed Wasay

Add Alternate Email Address or Recovery Email Address for Office365 Administrator

Posted on 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 […]

Adding a security group to the Local Administrator Group in AD

Posted on June 6, 2017 by mo wasay

[su_tooltip position=”north” content=”Note: I normallyÂ disable the built-in Administrator account., and make another account an admin. This is a good security precaution and in my opinion a best practice.”][/su_tooltip] Having a local administrator of your workstations can come in handy. Sometimes you might need to logon locally to troubleshoot or rejoin a computer to your domain. […]

Create A Dedicated Account To Join Computers To A Domain

Posted on February 28, 2017 by mo wasay

Admins often need to automate things, like creating a dedicated account for joining machines to an Active Directory (AD) domain. Â This is useful for things like System Center Configuration Manger task sequences and System Center Virtual Machine Manager templates or similar needs. First create a standard Windows user account. Â Next, right-click on the Computers Organization […]