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Creating a real-time IT dashboard is essential for IT professionals for managing their environments and to be proactive. Every sysadmin should be able to monitor their environment and should send reports or dashboards to the top management on a regular basis. Of course, you can build your own dashboards using a monitoring tool, but you don’t always have a PowerShell […]
Read moreInstall the following components on your system to connect to your Microsoft Azure subscription using PowerShell: Microsoft Online Service Sign-in Assistant for IT Professionals RTW Select the appropriate version of your OS Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell (64-bit version) The 32-bit version is discontinued by October 20, 2014. You must be a tenant administrator (i.e. company administrator, global administrator) […]
Read moreIMAP and POP3 are disabled on Exchange Server 2013 and 2016 servers by default. Chances are if you need to enable it, you’ll need to enable it on all your servers at once. Fortunately, PowerShell makes this easy! Run Exchange Management Shell as administrator on an Exchange server and execute the following: PowerShell Script to enable IMAP on all servers […]
Read moreOpen PowerShell in admin mode and enter the following: Make sure to have a .csv file with a column name of “Username” and “Password” Import-Module ActiveDirectory $UserPwds = Import-CSV C:\users\msgeek\desktop\Users.CSV ForEach($User in $UserPwds) { Set-adaccountpassword $User.UserName -reset -newpassword (Convertto-Securestring -asplaintext $($User.Password) -force) }
Read moreOccasionally accidents happen and important emails or things like calendar events get deleted. If you are unlucky you won’t be able to recover the deleted items the easy way over Microsoft Exchange server and will have to use PowerShell. Below are the steps to take to do this: Make Sure you are a member of the Discover Management Role Group Before […]
Read moreTo configure a user to view another users mailbox, follow these steps: 1) This step will show you what your execution policy is on your computer. Depending on what execution policy you have will determine what scripts you can run. Theresfore, it is important that you do this step before starting so that you are sure you can actually execute the […]
Read moreHow to add, and remove, contacts and calendars permissions for users of Office 365 by using PowerShell. This can be useful should you have trouble trying to add permissions over Outlook. The first you need to connect to the Office 365 Exchange Powershell, open a Powershell session and enter these commands, providing your Office 365 admin account details when requested: $cred = […]
Read moreIn Windows PowerShell 3.0, use the Get-CimInstance cmdlet, and select the LastBootUptime property from the Win32_Operatingsystem WMI class: PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem | select csname, lastbootuptime
Read moreIf you need a list of users and their respective proxy addresses then the command below will do this 🙂 Get-ADUser –Filter * –Properties proxyaddresses | Select-Object Name, @{L = “ProxyAddresses”; E = { $_.ProxyAddresses -join “;”}} | Export-Csv –Path c:\temp\proxyaddresses.csv –NoTypeInformation
Read moreTo connect to Skype online via PowerShell open an elevated PowerShell session and run the commands: # Download and install the Skype PowerShell Command http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=294688 $credential = Get-Credential $session = New-CsOnlineSession -Credential $credential Import-PSSession $session
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