Stories, and bit rot, from the IT Support Trenches
Get-Mailbox The documentation for Get-Mailbox suggests using Get-EXOMailbox instead. Which you can do by installing PowerShell 7 and then installing the Exchange Online V2 PowerShell Read More …
Customers had started to report that ipconfig /flushdns now requires Local Administrator rights. C:\>ipconfig /flushdns The requested operation requires elevation. Not all customers are seeing Read More …
Had a customer complaining that their computer would lose the mapped network drives. Turning off the disable “turn off this device to save power” feature Read More …
This’ll be an expanding topic I suspect … New-SMBMapping (link) Seems to be the Microsoft’s preferred method. Mapped network drive may fail to reconnect in Read More …
For whatever reason, I ended up deleting some MP3 files from my music storage, and my iTunes Library still had (now “dead”) links to the Read More …
was something I wrote about 8 years ago, in Detecting inactive computers in your AD domain. So it was time to update that*. Get-ADComputer -Filter Read More …
I needed to ZIP-up some log files in a number of subdirectories. In the past, I have used the PKZIP utility. I couldn’t find my Read More …
Two lines of Powershell code: PS C:\> $osid=New-Object system.security.principal.securityidentifier(“S-1-5-21-593069383-354653268-975305329-98179”) PS C:\> Write-Host $osid.translate([system.security.principal.ntaccount]) Output is in the form of <DOMAIN>\<USERID> ie. NODDYLAND\admin-bike01 Reference: Microsoft: Well-known Read More …
Get-ADGroup “<GROUP NAME>” -Properties Member | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Member | Get-ADUSer -properties Displayname,Description,EmailAddress | Select Name,Displayname,Description,EmailAddress will cause the following to display Name Displayname Description Read More …
This is more of a link dump than anything else. I was asked what I thought of a WMI-related Group Policy change. I don’t much Read More …