Hi dee hi campers! Just a quickie here… you might be doing a migration, or perhaps it’s the CEO breathing down your neck after a breach demanding you reset the password for a list of users! Whichever it is, you can whip out this script and impress! 🤣🤣🤣 Make sure you’ve installed AzureAD cmdlets using …
Reset lots of Azure AD passwords in a flash! Read More »
Hooray and welcome to 2023! May all of your dreams come true this year, and if not, may we at least be sheltered from P1 outages and other disasters, either natural or man-made…! 🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏 Recently I needed to see if RDP was open on hundreds of machines. No trouble I thought, and wrote a wee …
Check whether a port is open on a bulk list of endpoints – and FAST! Read More »
Using forms in PowerShell allows you to run interactive scripts that provide information or prompt for input. Ever need to force everyone to reboot? I know, I know… why on earth would you spend time on that Simon? Well (a) I’m absolutely bonkers… and (b) it’s fun! –ahem, refer to (a). The main problem with …
Using Forms with PowerShell – ITs awesome! Read More »
Due to the popularity of the initial script (over 5000 views and 3rd in the list on a google search – hooray!) Azure AD – Export Groups and Members to CSV, and thanks to David for asking, this script goes next level and will export the groups and the members with properties ObjectID, Display Name, …
Azure AD – export groups and members #2 – advanced version! Read More »
Just a quick one on ABPs – there are many posts about this topic now, but there are few that mention how to resolve issues such as recipients not appearing in the list when they should be. In this case you need to ‘tickle’ (yes that’s the official Microsoft term) the objects to get them …
GAL separation with Address Book Policies Read More »
Hello! Long time no… 🍻😊🍻 I thought I would share some PowerShell I used during a recent cross-tenant migration. Firstly, the Microsoft documentation is really good and got the journey off to a good start: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-mailbox-migration?view=o365-worldwide PLEASE NOTE: Following is some fairly raw PowerShell. You can’t just press Go! You’ll need to understand and update …
Microsoft 365 cross-tenant migration Read More »
Greetings! 👀 After a comment on my initial post asking for user email addresses in the output, I ended up getting a bit confused for 4 hours while trying to achieve the goal (it was a Friday night so several beers were involved) 🍻 !! When I started seeing the dreaded pages of red errors …
Active Directory – Export Groups and Members to a CSV file (with email addresses) Read More »
Cloud services have improved our lives and made our jobs easier – BUT they have also given hackers a worldwide platform of unlimited power with which to attack us… very sad but very true! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 This makes it even more critical to secure our external-facing services as much …
Have you secured your IIS Web Server? Read More »
Hey! I hope you are well.. 🤘 🙂 🤘. This script was a result of the following ponderings: How to monitor and manage the deletion of Blocked (Disabled) and Guest accounts in Azure AD. I have a Dynamic group for ‘Blocked (Disabled) users’, but members include valid Shared Mailbox accounts. What about Guest users… should …
Runbook: Sync Shared Mailbox accounts with an Azure AD Group Read More »
How often do you RDP to the AD Connect server to run a Delta Sync? Yes I know, quite often right? And that is only once you find out which server it is running on. Especially If you are in new environments a lot or someone moved it since last time… sheesh thanks for telling …
Remotely trigger delta AD Connect sync! Read More »
