If you use PowerShell to manage both on-prem and cloud Exchange resources, you can manage both in the same console by adding a prefix to the cmdlets of one or the other. It’s easier to add the prefix for Exchange Online cmdlets, so I’ll show you that. Simply copy and paste this code into the on-prem Exchange Management Shell to connect to Exchange Online and prefix the […]
These two scripts will add and remove a domain-joined computer to and from, respectively, a domain group. It’s much quicker than typing out the whole cmdlet string each time you need it. Script One: Add a computer to a group. Usage: Add_ComputerToGroup <ComputerName> <GroupName> # xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # Filename : Add_ComputerToGroup.ps1 # Purpose : Adds a computer object to an Active Directory group. The group # […]
It’s easy enough to use ADUC or ADAC to change the list of computers that a user account is authorized to logon to, but sometimes (like, whenever possible!) you need to use PowerShell. Let’s start by seeing what workstations the user is allowed to logon to now… PS C:\> Get-ADUser jay.test -Properties LogonWorkstations | Format-List Name, LogonWorkstations Name : Jay Test LogonWorkstations : testpc This tells […]
If you submit a message trace with a custom date via the Exchange Online admin center, you’ll see this message: From there, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours for your search results to be ready. Or… You can pop over to PowerShell and, after connecting to Exchange Online, run your trace like this: Get-MessageTrace -StartDate 3/22/2017 -EndDate 4/3/2017 -RecipientAddress email@address.com […]
A few years ago, Microsoft removed the ability to store passwords in Group Policy Objects using the cPassword method that Active Directory domain administrators had been using for over a decade because it was too easy to extract the password from the GPO files on the domain controller. LAPS provides a way to securely set and retrieve a random password for local administrator accounts on […]
If you want to find all files in a particular folder with “hello” in the name, you could use the search function built into Windows Explorer, but if you want to save the list for later, or to send via email, use PowerShell instead. This cmdlet will give you every file (that you have access to list) on the C:\ drive with “hello” in the […]
This PowerShell script will give you a report of all of your Office 365 mailbox users who haven’t logged in for any given number of days. Once you’ve saved the script to a .ps1 file on your workstation or server, you can run it with just the script name or you can include the number of days inactive as a command-line option. the command-line option is especially […]