Saturday Link Roundup-Assorted
Tables Generator I so dislike having to code HTML Tables manually, Tables Generator makes it easy. Personality Tests – summary from Atomic Habits Recently finished Read More …
Category: PowerShell
Accessing Azure Active Directory information via PowerShell
Two ways to do it, via MSOnline module AzureAD module MSOnline First you start with a connection to Azure AD, via Connect-MsolService Then you can Read More …
Adventures in PowerShell and Exchange Online – some notes
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 …
ipconfig /flushdns now requires elevation?
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 …
“My network drive drops out”
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 …
New-SMBMapping vs. New-PSDrive
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 …
Deleting missing or dead iTunes music entries
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 …
The last time my computer was seen on the network …
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 …
Using PowerShell to ZIP something.
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 …
Getting the user name for a given security identifier (SID)
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 …